The facilities of the Episcopal Curia of Matagalpa and Cáritas Diocesana were surrounded on the morning of this Monday, May 22, by members of the Ortega regime Police, in the midst of escalating persecution by the dictatorship against the Nicaraguan Church.
The harassment of the dictatorship against the Church increased after this weekend, parishioners in different cities of the Diocese of Matagalpa went out in procession with the Blessed Sacrament to support their bishop, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, who denounced persecution against him.
“Peace is not the peace of the graves”
On Sunday afternoon, Monsignor Carlos Avilés Cantón, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Managua, harshly criticized the harassment that the Ortega regime has undertaken against the Church.
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“The peace of the Lord is not the peace of the tombs, peace is not repression, peace is not silencing the media like the Catholic Channel that they have silenced. Is that peace? That is not peace”, condemned the priest.
The religious leader explained that the persecution ordered by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo against the Church has to do with the lack of credibility that both rulers have before the population.
«The Christian always responds with the truth, never organizes anything violent. He always resorts to prayer and peace, the invocation of the Holy Spirit and a radical pacifism that annoys the violent, that annoys the criminals. He resents having their unpopularity thrown in their faces. It bothers them to be unpopular and that with silence you blame the crimes and call them to conversion, and tell them: ‘you are going the wrong way, you have to straighten the way,'” the priest pointed out with a serious gesture.
For Avilés, the “selfish, arrogant, proud and criminal” the voice of the Church will always be uncomfortable.
“But it is the mission of the Church with simplicity, with humility, with the Holy Spirit, this is the peace that the Lord offers,” concluded the Catholic hierarch of Managua.
