Ortega’s government prevents Jesuit provincial from entering. In Cuba, they arrest a woman who was going to pray in a church.
Newsroom (25/10/2022 10:24 PM, Gaudium Press) Socialist dictatorships are always true to themselves in their hatred of the Catholic religion. It’s just that sometimes Catholics forget, including some pastors…
But to remind us of this absolute incompatibility between socialism and the Church of Christ, something already repeatedly defined by the Popes, there are the facts and the persecutions, the attacks and the expulsions.
For a sample, two recent news items, one from Nicaragua and the other from Cuba.
The one from the Ortega dictatorship refers to the notification to the Jesuit provincial for Central America, Fr. Jose Domingo Cuesta, that he could not travel to Nicaragua, which he planned to do last Wednesday. Fr. Cuesta was once rector of the Central American College in Nicaragua and now joins the growing list of religious who cannot enter the country.
We recall here that recently Jesuit Fr. David Pantaléon, who was superior of the Society of Jesus on Prison Island, was expelled from Cuba. His expulsion was due to some of his writings in the Sunday pamphlet “Christian Life” , which is distributed in all churches in Cuba.
And to continue with the news of the persecution of the Church in Cuba, Aciprensa reports the arrest of Sonia Álvarez Campillo, detained while she was going to mass to pray for political prisoners, including her husband Félix Navarro and her daughter Saily Navarro.
She was detained for two hours and was released with a fine of 150 pesos. Her husband is sentenced to nine years in prison and her daughter, eight. They participated in the historic marches of July 11, 2021.
Sonia is part of the Ladies in White, which brings together women from all over Cuba, and fights for the freedom of political prisoners and for true democracy on this island. It was founded in the so-called Black Spring of 2003, when the dictatorship imprisoned 75 opponents, one of them Félix Navarro himself.
