Father Uriel Vallejos, parish priest of the Divina Misericordia church in Sébaco and general director of the closed Canal and Radio Católica of that city, went into exile; This was confirmed by a source from the Catholic Church to the religious news portal EWTN News.
«Father Uriel —Vallejos— is out of the country. Media workers are no longer working,” the source told EWTN on condition of anonymity.
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He also assured that the order given by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo was to arrest the priest, so “he had to go through blind spots,” without specifying the country in which he is located.
On August 1, agents from the Police Department of Special Operations (DOEP) raided the temple and attacked parishioners who came to support priest Vallejos. Later they surrounded the parish house where he was for several days without being able to leave.
«We continue to be guarded, here we are; We only have to ask the Lord for strength. Thank you for his prayers. Don’t leave me alone!”, was the last publication that Vallejos made on his social network on the second of this month, however, after 22 days absent, he reappeared on Wednesday, the 24th, asking God to “appease revenge.”
The last thing that was known about the priest is that on August 4 he would have managed to leave the parish house. According to the press, sources on condition of anonymity indicated that the police officers withdrew from the area; which allowed the father together with the religious brothers who accompanied him to leave.
At least five exiled priests
The news of Vallejos’s exile comes after the lawyer Yader Morazán assured on September 1 that the five priests who went into exile are: Fr. Uriel Vallejo, Pbro. Vincent Martinez, Pbro. Sebastian LopezPbro. Mangel Hernandez and Pbro. Danny Garcia.
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For his part, Deacon Carlos Mata, of the Diocese of Granada, reported that due to threats from “servile and fanatical people” he was forced to leave his homeland.
“Dear brothers, from the depths of my heart I have loved my country, but I inform you that due to the madness of servile and fanatical people, I have had to leave and abandon the land that saw me born, I ask for your prayers,” he wrote. religious in your account Twitter.
Recently Gonzalo Carrión, defense attorney for the Nicaraguan Never Again Human Rights Collective, confirmed to the team of Article 66 that they have documented the case of a Nicaraguan priest who went into exile and without specifying figures, he explained that there are more cases of priests in this same situation.
Article 66 tried to contact Father Vallejos once more to corroborate the information, however, he did not answer the calls or text messages.
