Posted on 04/17/2023 6:13:41 PM PDT by marshmallow
ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 13, 2023 / 14:00 pm The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has confiscated a cloistered monastery and arrested 20 people for activities related to Holy Week in Nicaragua.
The Trappist sisters of Nicaragua, who left the country in February after 22 years of service, reported April 11 that the government verbally informed the bishop of Juigalpa that the monastery would be taken over by the regime.
The nuns said in a Feb. 27 Facebook post that they voluntarily left the country because of “reasons the order has,” a lack of vocations, and the “old age of several sisters.”
Although they didn’t mention anything about their residency status in Nicaragua, the General Directorate for Migration and Foreigners had issued summonses to various religious and foreign missionaries.
According to the Nicaraguan media outlet 100% Noticias, new requirements are being demanded for such religious to remain in the country.
The sisters explained April 11 on their Facebook page that “we had left the monastery under the administration of the diocese while the voluntary closure of the association was being processed with MIGOB [Ministry of the Interior].”
“On March 1, the document for voluntary closure was presented to MIGOB, and on March 3 the government authorities showed up to verbally inform our bishop that they could no longer go to the monastery and that INTA [Nicaraguan Institute of Agricultural Technology] would work there,” the nuns explained.
Consequently, the monastery, which is located in the town of San Pedro de Lóvago in the Diocese of Juigalpa, will now house INTA.
The nuns, who now live in Panama, where they have been “welcomed with great affection and generosity” after their departure from Nicaragua, also asked for financial help to be able to support themselves.
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My God, what is happening to Nicaragua??!!
It’s now all out Communist in the Castro-Chavez “Tradition”.
Daniel Ortega going Stalin in his senior years.
Ortega will turn the Country into Venezuela shortly.
They knowingly voted in the leader of the Sandinistas.
Sometimes the voters “get it good and hard”
Let’s send our illegals there for their “worker’s paradise”
Exactly what pinkos in the USA want to do to the faithful.
Still not as bad as sexualizing minors.
For at least 100 years, whenever there's a revolution the Dims support the dictators.
all those years pandering to the commies is finally paying off... wait, nevermind
Senators Chris Dodd, Tom Harkin and Ted Kennedy, all Dems, defended the Sandinistas. That’s what happened.
Senators Chris Dodd, Tom Harkin and Ted Kennedy, all Dems, defended the Sandinistas. That’s what happened.
Still not as bad as rainbow Episcopalian and Methodist ministers.
well said.
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