Posted on 06/08/2023 7:10:44 PM PDT by marshmallow
ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 7, 2023 / 15:30 pm A recent investigation by the Nicaraguan newspaper El Confidencial revealed that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega has withheld more than half a million dollars that was donated to the Church in Estelí by the U.S. bishops’ humanitarian aid agency Catholic Relief Services (CRS).
The independent media reported June 2 that according to sources with ties to the diocese, the donation of $563,206 was legally made on June 14, 2012, to Estelí Caritas when Abelardo Mata was diocesan bishop.
The charity, whose legal personhood was canceled on Feb. 7, 2022, by the National Assembly, agreed to a “total donation” of the money to the Diocese of Estelí, whose apostolic administrator is currently Bishop Rolando Álvarez. The prelate was unjustly sentenced in February to 26 years and four months in prison, charged with treason by the regime.
The money, the news outlet said, was the remainder of a donation that CRS had earmarked for the construction of a hospital.
“The accusation of money laundering is unfounded, because the funds are clean, the money belongs to the Diocese of Estelí, and the diocese decides what is most appropriate to guarantee its proper use,” a source told El Confidencial.
The newspaper also reported that in addition to the regime withholding the money, eight people from the diocese were arrested “under an alleged investigation for money laundering” in the case.
Those arrested are priests Rodríguez Benavides and Leonardo Guevara Gutiérrez, and laypersons Julio Sevilla, Julio Berríos, Bladimir Pallés, María Verónica Herrera Galeano, Freydell Andino, and Mariví Andino.
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Some of the exiled Nicaraguan priests are here in Charlotte and doing the Spanish Mass at my parish.
Cannot happen here surely... yah.. no sir, never could...
And these Democrats led protests against the communist dictatorship of Daniel Ortega - *, * ,* etc.
This withholding of moeny will become wide sprwad in the US one day.
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