No less than nine Catholic priests have been abducted by dictator President Daniel Ortega since July 26, according to Martha Patricia Molina, a lawyer and researcher.
The Vatican’s embassy office in the capital of Nicaragua, Managua, was closed and Monsignor Marcel Mbaye Diouf, chargé d'affaires, moved to Costa Rica on March 17.
Father Winder Morales from Granada Diocese told the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa, that “The Stations of the Cross that we traditionally do on Fridays of Lent can only make its way around the cathedral.”
Pope's appeal to Nicaragua’s political leaders comes in the context of the sentencing of Bishop Rolando José Álvarez Lagos of Matagalpa to 26 years of imprisonment and the expulsion of 222 political detainees.
(CNA) Fr. Ernesto Cardenal, a Nicaraguan poet and Marxist liberation theology activist whose priestly faculties were long suspended for his assuming a public office, died Sunday at the age of 95.
