Q24N (Confidencial) The Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo regime arrested nine priests in just ten days, between July 26 and August 5, 2024. Of those arrested, seven belonged to the Diocese of Matagalpa and one to the Diocese of Estelí, which are administered by Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, released from prison and exiled to Rome.
The other detained priest belonged to the Diocese of Juigalpa, in the department of Chontales.
All the detained priests were initially transferred to the Nuestra Señora de Fátima Seminary in Managua, under house arrest. However, on the morning of Wednesday, August 7, 2024, seven of them were taken from the seminary and taken to an “unknown destination,” said lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, who has investigated the persecution of the Church in Nicaragua.
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This is the largest operation that the regime has deployed against the Catholic Church since last January when it banished Monsignor Álvarez and 18 other religious to Rome, whom it had kept as political prisoners.
This new repressive escalation against the Catholic Church began on July 26, with the arrest of the administrator ad omnia of 79-year-old Diocese of Estelí priest, Frutos Constantino Valle Salmerón, appointed by the Vatican, in January 2023, administrator ad omnia of the Diocese of Estelí, due to the forced absence of Bishop Álvarez.
His arrest occurred on July 26, hours after police officers notified him that the priestly ordination of three deacons scheduled for Saturday, July 27, was “not authorized.”
Read the original report in Spanish at Confidencial.digital
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