Monsignor Rolando Alvarezbishop of the diocese of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of the diocese of Estelí, urged true peace in Nicaragua, a country that lives a human rights crisis exacerbated since the 2018 repression.
“Nicaragua needs peace, peace not of tombs, peace that is not simply the absence of war, but the true one, that of the living, that of free men and women,” the bishop said in his homily this Sunday, April 24.
In a context of repression and with more than a hundred opponents and union leaders imprisoned, Monsignor Alvarez he asked for a peace “fruit of justice and freedom, where the Law prevails at the service of man and not man at the service of the Law. An ethical, moral Law, that is not manipulated or tampered with by anyone, a human and humanist law . The peace that is the product of the country’s institutions.”
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The prelate’s words come after the regime’s spokeswoman, Rosario Murillo, celebrated a supposed “peace” and normality in the country after the 2018 civic insurrection, which was brutally repressed by the dictatorship.
Nicaragua needs an “inclusive peace, of non-exclusion, where we all feel respected, where everyone can express themselves freely, without fear or trauma,” the bishop continued before the congregation that accompanied him to the Divina Misericordia parish in Matagalpa.
«(A peace) where we see ourselves as a Nicaraguan family without preconceived or prefabricated ideas or foreign to our idiosyncrasy (…) where from our limitations we all serve each other, where with effort we can all get out of poverty with our human resources, our intelligence, natural resources, to stop this bloody flow of migration,” added Monsignor.
“A Nicaraguan peace where we meet, look into each other’s eyes without being afraid, without humiliating each other, without feeling strange and communicating to each other the most serious things about our lives and our existence,” exhorted the religious leader, amid verbal attacks by of the presidential couple against the bishops, after the Catholic Church showed solidarity with the victims of the repression.
