Posted on 07/04/2023 6:14:39 PM PDT by marshmallow
ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 27, 2023 / 16:20 pm The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, in Nicaragua has set up the red and black flags of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, the regime’s political party, in front of the cathedral in Matagalpa.
The bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, was sentenced Feb. 10 to 26 years and four months prison, charged with treason to the homeland.
Ortega has been in power since 2007. The Sandinistas are a socialist political party.
In a statement to EWTN News, Martha Patricia Molina, a researcher and the author of the report “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?”, charged that “obviously this is one more provocation from the Sandinista dictatorship against the Nicaraguan Catholic Church.”
“We know that the bishop of Matagalpa, who is the head of this diocese that has been seriously affected, is being held captive in one of the Nicaraguan jails, where methods of torture are practiced, both physical and psychological, and so the dictatorship continues to persecute and commit attacks against this diocese in order to weaken it,” she continued.
“Apart from these flags that they have set up, they have prohibited a procession that was going to take place for the Divine Child, which has been attended by more than 20,000 faithful Catholics,” the researcher added.
For Molina, the act of placing the flags could be understood as a way to “lower the morale of the clergy who are always praying for their bishop, who is being held captive at this time.”
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John f’in Kerry approves.
Briben stands and cheers
Putin approves as well. He isn’t a fan of Catholics.
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