The Ortega and Murillo dictatorship has imprisoned several Catholic priests and lay people in the torture prison known as El Chipote, where political prisoners are sent.
Newsroom (13/01/2023 10:41 PM, Gaudium Press) — Nearly five thousand people have signed a campaign demanding an end to the “rampant religious persecution” suffered by the Catholic Church in Nicaragua at the hands of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo.
The campaign, promoted by the platform Actívate, recalls that on 10 January, the public hearing of the case of the Bishop of Matagalpa (Nicaragua) Rolando Álvarez, kidnapped by the dictatorship on 18 August 2022 and placed under house arrest, will take place.
Bishop Álvarez is accused by Daniel Ortega’s regime of “conspiracy to undermine national integrity and propagation of false news through information and communication technologies to the detriment of the Nicaraguan state and society”.
The one against the Bishop of Matagalpa is one of nearly 400 attacks on the Catholic Church between 2018 and 2022, recorded in a report by Nicaraguan lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina.
The Ortega and Murillo dictatorship has imprisoned several Catholic priests and lay people in the torture prison known as El Chipote, where political prisoners are sent.
In addition, Ortega has expelled from the country the Apostolic Nuncio, the Pope’s diplomatic representative, Monsignor Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag; and congregations such as the Missionaries of Charity, founded by Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
– Raju Hasmukh with files from ACI Prensa
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