The vice president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, highlighted this afternoon the celebration of the Virgin of Guadalupe on Monday, December 12, while she continues her attack against the Catholic Church with the imprisonment of journalists who worked in the Diocese of Matagalpa, in charge of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, now a political prisoner of the Daniel Ortega regime.
«Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, which we celebrate throughout our Caribbean America and in the world, our mother in the invocation of Guadalupe, who is there and who tells us: I am not here, I am your mother, do not grieve, here I am. We always invoke her, miraculous Virgin of Guadalupe, mother of all, mother of peoples, free peoples, sovereign peoples, dignified peoples, fighting peoples, working peoples, peoples full of faith,” Murillo said on December 12 in his customary communication. telephone with official media.
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The government spokeswoman added that “we go forward in prayer, in devotion, affection, always beyond in the midst of the days of December and the celebration”, they will continue “defending peace, the joy of living in peace, the right to live in peace”.
Manuel Obando is the official journalist of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, a political prisoner and bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, he always accompanied the cardinal on his visits to towns. He also covered the various attacks the bishop suffered before his capture. He was the official image of TV Merced.
Anonymous sources point out that this capture “is not like that” and stress that the dictatorship perhaps intends to use the communicators “for other purposes and point out Monsignor Rolando (Alvarez) of crimes that they want to fabricate him.”
The Nicaraguan Catholic Church invited the faithful throughout the national territory to participate in a day of prayer this Monday morning, where they spread the prayers of the rosary of dawn and the Hail Marys for Nicaragua, for the church and the priests. “Let us also carry in our intentions Monsignor Rolando, priests and laymen deprived of his liberty,” reads the invitation on the Facebook page of the Nicaraguan Catholic Channel.
