The Community of Dominican Friars, of the La Dolorosa Parishin San José, Costa Rica, expressed his solidarity for the three nuns of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Annunciata, recently expelled from Nicaragua.
«La Dolorosa expresses her solidarity and fraternity to the Dominican Sisters of the Annunciata at this time when the sisters Isabel and Cecilia Blanco Cubillo, Costa Ricans, and the sister Maria Albertina Gonzalez, Guatemalan, have been expelled from Nicaragua,” says a brief statement published on the parish’s Facebook platform.
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They add that in the face of this repressive action, “they raise a prayer for their mission in Nicaragua and we ask the Creator that all these signs of violence and impunity become light and hope for the mission and accompaniment of the peoples of Central America.”
The nuns, who attended the López Carazo nursing home, located in the city of Rivas, arrived in Costa Rica on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 12.
The Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia reported on its social networks that the Blanco Cubillo nuns were received at the Peñas Blancas border post by her sister Violeta Blanco Cubillo together with her husband, Carlos Vargas.
As it was known, by means of a notification addressed to the Diocese of Granada, in charge of Monsignor Jorge Solorzano, the regime ordered the departure of the nuns within a period of no more than 72 hours. Neither the ecclesiastical authorities nor the dictatorship have explained the reasons for the expulsion.
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Bishop Salazar in a brief statement also asked to keep praying for the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, especially for Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, Bishop of Matagalpa, who is being held captive by the Sandinista regime after being sentenced to more than 26 years in prison. “Mary Immaculate Mother, defend and protect Nicaragua!”, the Costa Rican religious exclaimed.
Despite the wave of repression against the Catholic Church, the Ortega regime, through the national polling company M&R Consultores, assures that 87.9% of Nicaraguans assure that there is religious freedom in the country.
These data are contradicted by the siege imposed on freedom of worship, imprisonment, exile of priests, expulsion of nuns and confiscation of property, as was the case of the robbery of the monastery owned by the Trappist Sisters.
During Holy Week, the Ortega Police arrested more than 20 people, mostly Catholic parishioners, whom they have not formally accused, and have also prevented freedom of worship.
