The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo would have ordered on November 13, the kidnapping and exile to Guatemala of the bishop of the Diocese of Jinotega and president of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN), Monsignor Carlos Herrerain what seems to mark the beginning of a new anti-Christian repressive escalation ordered by the tyrants of Nicaragua in retaliation because the religious demanded that the regime respect Catholic activities.
According to information disclosed on social networks, the president of the CEN, the highest leadership of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, would have been captured by police officers at the service of the dictatorship. They took him away without giving any explanation and, according to information not yet confirmed, he would have been deported to Guatemala.
Call to respect cults inflamed dictators
Last Sunday, November 10, Bishop Herrera called the attention of the Jinotega building authorities because they were disrespecting the mass, by placing sound equipment and groups of dancers adjacent to the temple, at high volumes with the intention of interrupting the service.
In protest against such an act, Bishop Jinotegano described this action that interrupted the mass, considered one of the most important and venerated rites of Catholic Christianity, as “sacrilege.”
The Facebook page called “María Libertad Nicaragua” reported that, according to information it received via Messenger, Bishop Herrera complained about the retaliation that prevents Catholics from practicing the faith even inside the temples.
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«Monsignor Herrera, tired, asked for respect from the Sandinista mayor of Jinotega (Leónidas Centeno), calling him “sacrilegious”, for disrespecting the Holy Eucharist, since the mayor installed loudspeakers in front of the Church with deafening music and dancing, at the same time as the bishop celebrated the Holy Mass,” the administrators of María Libertad Nicaragua recalled.
Likewise, they highlighted that the Jinotegan bishop “was doing nothing more than asking for respect. He only fulfilled his duty as a shepherd to protect the most sacred of our faith. Is it a crime to ask for respect? “Can Catholics not even practice our faith inside temples?” asks the site that defends the Church.
CEN decimated
If the exile of the president of the CEN is confirmed, Monsignor Herrera would become the fourth bishop of the Catholic Church and also the fourth member of the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference to be expelled from the country.
The first to be forced to abandon his priestly work in Nicaragua was the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Monsignor Silvio Báez, who went into exile in mid-2019, to be safe from the Sandinista repressive wave, and from death threats detected and warned by the US Embassy
He was followed by the bishop of Siuna, Monsignor Isidoro del Carmen Mora, who was first imprisoned for several months and then exiled to Spain in March of this year.
Also exiled that same month to Spain was the bishop of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of the diocese of Estelí, Monsignor Rolandio Álvarez, who was imprisoned for more than a year and a half as part of a 26-year sentence imposed by the dictatorship accusing him of alleged treason. to the homeland.
According to the most recent report on religious freedom in Nicaragua, prepared by the Nicaragua Never Again Collective, at least 306 religious, including Catholic priests and evangelical pastors, have been banished, expelled or prevented from entering the country by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega y Rosario. Murillo in the middle of a declared war against the religion that sustains tyranny.
