Posted on 02/11/2023 7:15:13 AM PST by BenLurkin
A day after banishing most of its political prisoners to the United States, Nicaragua has sentenced a Catholic bishop to 26 years in prison.
Bishop Rolando Álvarez refused to leave with the rest of the 222 political prisoners flown to the U.S. on Thursday.
According to media reports, he stopped at the stairs leading to the airplane and said, "Let the others be free. I will endure their punishment."
Álvarez was arrested for opposing the government of President Daniel Ortega and his trial was set for next week. The bishop has called for free elections.
Instead, a judge appeared on state television and said the priest had been declared a traitor, and sentenced to 26 years in prison. He was also stripped of his Nicaraguan citizenship.
Álvarez was best known for confronting security forces that surrounded his parish in the town of Matagalpa. "Frightened and on my knees, only before God," he told them.
Poop Frank excommunicates him in 5, 4, 3,...
modern day saint.....God bless him....white hats come quickly...
ping
Those who are pure in heart and love the Lord are the true traitors to the demons that inhabit our halls of power. THEY are the ones imprisoned. THEIRS is the blood of Christ that is spilled for the sins of this world.
Saint.
Who is the plug ugly woman in the background
Álvarez was arrested for opposing the government of President Daniel Ortega and his trial was set for next week. The bishop has called for free elections.
Instead, a judge appeared on state television and said the priest had been declared a traitor, and sentenced to 26 years in prison. He was also stripped of his Nicaraguan citizenship.
This is what will become standard here in a couple of decades.
john fing kerry.....
Pray for us oh holy man of God, that we be made worthy of the promises of Christ!
The US has it’s political prisoners now too.
God`s Angels surround him on every side.
Wow. That’s some guts.
Kerry and Harkin - commie lovers.
Bishop Rolando Álvarez is a real Christian. He should be the Pope instead of that communist Jorge Bergoglio.
Ping
His is likely the fate of anyone in the United States who calls for free elections, too.
Nope. Only if convicted of pedo. That is the trigger for the Poop’s action. It is what he did when a bishop down thataway.
In a way, Nicaraguans have yourself to blame.
Ortega was communist dictator. US helped them to oust him out and some years later, he came back, claimed he had changed and he got elected!
Guess what, he had not changed!
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