The vice president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) and archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Carlos Osoro Sierra, expressed his solidarity with the Nicaraguan Church, which is suffering strong religious persecution by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Monsignor Osoro Sierra is one of the cardinals closest to Pope Francis and one of his main sources of information within the Spanish Church.
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“I pray for the people of Nicaragua and for the Church that pilgrims in the country, which, with its testimony, makes the Gospel present as Santo Domingo de Guzmán requested,” the Catholic leader wrote on his official Twitter account.
Throughout the weekend, bishops and Catholic institutions in Latin America have expressed their solidarity and closeness with the Church of Nicaragua and in particular with Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, Bishop of Matagalpa, who is under de facto house arrest in the Matagalpa Episcopal Curia. by orders of the Ortega dictatorship.
Among the Catholic institutions that have shown solidarity is the Latin American Episcopal Council (Celam), the body that brings together the entire Catholic hierarchy in the region.
