Posted on 03/04/2023 6:17:49 PM PST by marshmallow
ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 28, 2023 / 14:30 pm The Nicaraguan dictatorship led by Daniel Ortega has prohibited holding the Stations of the Cross in the streets the same week that the dictator accused the Church of being a “mafia.”
Local media reported Feb. 23 and 24 that the government had banned the Stations of the Cross, a traditional practice during Lent and Holy Week.
According to the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, Father Winder Morales of the Diocese of Granada said that “the Stations of the Cross that we traditionally do on Fridays of Lent can only make its way around the cathedral.”
A source from the Church in Managua told La Prensa that “after the Ash Wednesday Mass, the authorities [police] arrived to inform them that there was no permission for security reasons to do the Stations of the Cross.”
The Nicaragua Actual newspaper published the transcript of an audio recording attributed to the bishop of León, René Sándigo, explaining to his priests how the Stations of the Cross should be done.
The government “has already told many that the Stations of the Cross can only be done inside or in the atrium of the church” but others have “not yet” been told that, he reportedly said.
“Therefore, it’s preferable and better that we all do the Stations of the Cross inside the church or in the atrium, so that we maintain that communion and also because it may be that some are told later or they may forget or not comply,” added the audio shared by Nicaragua Actual.
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One of only five countries that is supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Do Putin fanboys also believe the Sandinistas are noble Christian warriors?
In fairness it has to be pointed out that Brandon has been placing pressure on the Ortega regime, including sanctions on their gold industry last November.
It would be nice to think that this was because our leaders genuinely concerned themselves with religious freedom and human rights abuses in central America. But you know they would love to do the same things here that Ortega is doing to the church there, if they thought they could get away with it.
Which leads to the question of what is the real reason they oppose Ortega’s presecution of the church. It’s possible that the reason is something as simple as the Big Guy not getting his 10%. In past administrations I would have dismissed such thinking out of hand, but not with this one.
Bkmk
Dictatorship in Rome Bans the Traditional Latin Mass on all Sundays, worldwide.
Carter and his weak-willed administration made the Sandinista victory possible, aided and abetted by such newspapers as the Wash. Post and it chief foreign correspondent, Karen De Young, who constantly told their readers that the nine Sandinista leaders were not Marxists though they also publicly said that they and their three factions were.
Obama and Biden kept the Reds in power and you see the crushing of the few remaining freedoms left in Nicaragua, one by one.
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