A senior leader of the Catholic Church confirmed the freezing of the bank accounts of all the Dioceses of Nicaragua, among which are those of Matagalpa, Siuna and Bluefields.
He added that the first diocese to which the Ortega regime froze the accounts, last weekend, was that of Estelí “and already this week it was the other dioceses.”
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He stressed that the banking entities that reported that the accounts of the Dioceses of Nicaragua were blocked are Bancentro, BDF and Banpro.
Regarding the reasons for the freezing of bank accounts, the prelate said that some priests from the Diocese of Estelí —without mentioning names— tried to make a transaction that Monsignor (Abelardo) Mata had to build a hospital, “but the Bank did not the transfer, and they said that —the Government— is going to investigate the precedence of the funds.”
Referring to the attack against the Diocese of Matagalpa, the religious affirmed that this action is basically from the imprisonment of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez. «They —the Nicaraguan dictatorship— They see Monsignor Rolando as the Devilthen they are punishing all of Matagalpa, using false accusations.”
Catholic schools concerned
On the other hand, the priest affirmed that he was not concerned about the new action of the Nicaraguan regime for the support of the churches, because the parishioners will always help and take care of their church, however he said that he was concerned about the country’s Catholic schools «In the event that they are going to run out of funds because the operation is very expensive. But this is ridiculous because these people believe that they are hurting the Church.
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The new action of the Government of Nicaragua against the Catholic Church after the arrests of the priests Pastor Eugenio Rodriguez Benavides and Leonardo Guevara Gutierrez, those he captured, transferred them to Managua and subjected them to an “investigation” for the management of the extinct Caritas, but later they were released “under investigation”; in addition to the arrest of the father Jaime Ivan Montesinos Sauceda, to whom they “investigate” of course I undermine.
So far there has been no official communication from the Archdiocese of Managua or from any Diocese after the onslaught of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega. Article 66 He tried to contact Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes to find out his version, but no contact could be established.
