The father Harvey Padilla, who was the parish priest of the San Juan Bautista church in Masaya, continues to be the object of “surveillance” and siege by paramilitaries at the service of the Daniel Ortega regime, as reported to Article 66 sources on condition of anonymity.
The report revealed that last week paramilitaries were stationed at the entrance of the La Purisima Archdiocesan Seminary in Managua, where the religious has been since May, after being forced to leave the San Juan parish in Masaya, after the siege by the Ortega Police.
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Other sources indicated that the Police and plainclothes men were in the city of Masaya looking for the priest in order to know “what his fate was,” but “the father was ill and did not leave Managua,” they reported.
On the other hand, a religious source said that Father Padilla recently went out to officiate at a church in the capital, but when “the days of religious acts were over, paramilitaries arrived at the place and the father was no longer able to continue collaborating with the another priest.
After learning of the exile of at least five religious, the source pointed out that for the moment it has not been contemplated that Father Father leave the country. “It is a difficult decision to make, because everything that is happening is something biblical, where the Church is being tested. We must ask the Holy Spirit to give an answer, that will not depend on men but on God».
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Article 66 he tried to contact Father Harvin Padilla, however he did not answer phone calls and messages. The religious is one of the most critical voices of the Ortega regime, which has caused him to be a target of the dictatorship.
The Sandinista government has persecuted him and points him out for the death of a police officer on June 15, 2018, during the social protests.
