The nuns Rosario and Isabel Blanco, belonging to the Dominican Sisters of the Nunciata congregation and of Costa Rican nationality, left Nicaragua, as they announced on Tuesday.
“We share with you that on February 24 we left the monastery and on the 25th we arrived in Panama,” according to a message.shared on Facebook by the Trappist Sisters of Nicaragua. “We had left the monastery under the administration of the diocese while the request was made before the Ministry of Government for the voluntary closure of the Association.”
The religious order presented “the voluntary closure” of its headquarters in Rivas, in the southwest of the country, on March 1, 2023, according to the message.
The Ortega government has been accused, both by opposition organizations and by governments of various countries, of carrying out persecution against the Catholic Church, with the arrest of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, detained in 2022, and the ban on thousands of religious processions throughout the nation during the recently past Holy Week.
Nicaragua has been experiencing a social and political crisis since 2018, when protests against President Daniel Ortega arose, which were repressed leaving more than 300 dead.
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