Posted on 08/15/2022 7:13:49 AM PDT by Ebenezer
(Translation)
Eleven days after being placed under house arrest at the Bishop's Palace by the National Police, Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez, a critic of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, called on the Catholic faithful via Facebook to pray for his release.
The bishop, five priests, three seminarians, and two laypeople remain held in the bishop's residence since August 4 accused by police of supposedly attempting to organize "violent groups".
This is the most recent in [a series of] clashes between the Catholic Church and the Ortega regime which have spanned 43 years.
Faith of Our Fathers ping.
Puerto Rico ping.
To those pro-independence Catholics in Puerto Rico who would love to turn the island into a second Nicaragua, be careful what you wish for.
As a Catholic, I couldn’t agree more and it was the first thing I thought of on seeing the article.
Communist Catholics are not Christians.
You just hit the nail on the head. Anybody who claims to be a faithful Catholic while supporting the regimes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua is a phony Catholic.
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