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Among those to testify March 22 was Juan Sebastian Chamorro, a former presidential candidate opposed to the Ortega regime who detailed his arrest and imprisonment.
Msgr. Diouf was the last Vatican official in Nicaragua and assumed the role of business manager after the government of Daniel Ortega expelled the apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, in March 2022.
COMMENTARY: The Nicaraguan bishop is currently being held prisoner on trumped-up charges by the anti-Catholic Ortega regime.
Eight Nicaraguan priests who were expelled from their country by the Ortega regime celebrated Mass for first time in six months last weekend at a small chapel in Washington, DC. The Register’s senior editor, Joan Frawley Desmond, who has covered this story of faith in the face of persecution, joins us on Register Radio along with Register columnist Andrea Picciotti Bayer, who covers religious liberty issue worldwide.
Given the situation, Bishop Álvarez called together his priests and told them that he would open a secret human rights office to help these people and make their cases known.
The challenges now facing the Catholic Church in China and Nicaragua have significant similarities to the problems that the Holy See faced in the 20th century.
The parish invited the faithful to pray a prayer of reparation to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Father Oscar Benavidez Dávila is pastor of Holy Spirit parish in the town of Mulukukú in the Diocese of Siuna. According to the priest’s defense, his ‘crime’ was supposedly expressing his opinion in a social-media post.
The U.S. Department of State in late November designated Nicaragua a Country of Particular Concern in terms of religious freedom violations perpetrated by or tolerated by the government.
In September, the European Parliament approved a resolution by a vote of 538 to 16 demanding the immediate release of the bishop.
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