Daniel Ortega / Bishop Silvio Báez. / Credit: Ricardo Patiño (CC BY-SA 2.0) / Credit: Facebook Silvio José Báez
ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 18, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Báez of Managua, Nicaragua, who is living in exile in the U… […]
The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega on April 13, 2023, expelled from Nicaragua three nuns who were running a home for the elderly. / Credit: Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia
ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 14, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
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The Trappist Sisters of Nicaragua announced Feb. 27, 2023, that they are leaving Nicaragua for Panama. / Credit: Facebook Trappist Sisters of Nicaragua
ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 13, 2023 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
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ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 11, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Father Donaciano Alarcón, a Claretian missionary expelled from Nicaragua by the dictatorship, described how the authorities leveled unfounded accusations against him, took him… […]
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ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 10, 2023 / 15:18 pm (CNA).
Organizations defending freedom of the press and freedom of speech in Nicaragua are demanding the release of Víctor Ticay, a Nicaraguan journalist who was arrested by the dict… […]
Danie Ortega. / Credit: Shutterstock
ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 5, 2023 / 15:20 pm (CNA).
The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, hasn’t declared a truce in its persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua,… […]
Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CC BY-SA 4.0)
ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 28, 2023 / 09:15 am (CNA).
The auxiliary bishop of Managua, Silvio Báez, who lives in exile in the United States, c… […]
Bishop Rolando Álvarez in "La Modelo" prison, March 25, 2023. / Credit: Courtesy
ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 27, 2023 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
El 19 Digital, a news media outlet supportive of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, posted … […]
The Vatican flag and the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Bohumil Petrik/ACI
ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 20, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
The Holy See reported on Saturday that the Vatican’s diplomatic headquarters in Nicaragua was forced to close.
“Yesterday, March 17, the chargé d’affaires of the apostolic nunciature in Nicaragua, Monsignor Marcel Diouf, left the country for Costa Rica. The closure of the diplomatic headquarters of the Holy See occurred as a result of a request from the Nicaraguan government on March 10, 2023,” Vatican News reported.
The Vatican news outlet indicated that “by virtue of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, custody of the apostolic nunciature and its assets was entrusted to the Italian Republic.”
“Before his departure, Diouf was greeted by diplomatic representatives accredited in Nicaragua from the European Union, Germany, France, and Italy,” it said.
Diouf was the last Vatican official in Nicaragua and assumed the role of business manager after the government of Daniel Ortega expelled the apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Waldemar Stanislaw Sommertag, in March 2022.
On March 12, the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that it was considering suspending diplomatic relations with the Vatican.
This occurred two days after an interview with Pope Francis was published in which he harshly criticized the Ortega regime — where the Catholic Church is persecuted — and compared it to “the communist dictatorship of 1917 or the Hitler dictatorship of 1935.”
He also mentioned the bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez, who was sentenced to 26 years in prison for his opinions against the regime. “A very serious man, very capable. He wanted to give his testimony and did not accept exile,” the Holy Father said.
Likewise, in reference to Ortega, the pope pointed out that “with great respect, I have no choice but to think there’s an imbalance in the person who leads” Nicaragua.
This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.
The faithful in Nicaragua participate in a pilgrimage in support of the bishops, July 28, 2018. / Photo credit: Javier Ruiz / Facebook Archdiocese of Managua
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