The priest Vincent Martinez, The parish priest of the Santa Lucía church, in Ciudad Darío, assured that the arbitrary closure of the six radio stations under the direction of the Diocese of Matagalpa is because that is how “a dictatorial couple wants it” in reference to the Nicaraguan dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo .
In his homily, the religious lamented that Monday, August 1, was the last day that the Matagalpa church took the Word of God to the countryside and the city, through the radio.
«We see that it is no longer possible (to transmit the masses) because that is how a dictatorial couple wants it, they simply say cut everything and there is no turning back» lamented the priest.
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«Someone can say, someone who is here the father is talking about politics; no, let’s not be sheep, let’s not be deaf, let’s not be dumb, let’s not be blind, reality is reality. You have an ideology, I respect it, but evil is evil and injustices are injustices”, said Father Vicente Martínez, while assuring that the religious “do not harm anyone”.
«I don’t know why they have caught it with our Church?the prelate asked himself, citing the words of Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero, a Catholic leader murdered in El Salvador, who “said that in the church persecutions are necessary because truth and justice are persecuted».
Likewise, Father Martínez argued that “if you feel like a church and what is happening hurts you, I congratulate you, if you are not a church you will not feel anything, not even a tickle, you will not feel indignation, why? Because you are accommodating to evil, you are an indifferent person, that you do not feel anything as a Catholic because of what you are going through, realize that you need to be a Christian, you need to be the Church, you need to be like Jesus, feel compassion».
“Brothers, let us remember that our church is our mother, if we are children of the Church we have to be sad, because our Church is passing right now, we could say the moment of the cross,” he remarked.
Dictatorship attacks the Catholic Church in Matagalpa
On August 1, the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Post Office (Telcor) ordered the “immediate” closure of six radio stations that were in charge of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, one of the bishops most persecuted by the Nicaraguan regime.
The order was given by Nahima Janett Díaz Flores, general director of Telcor and daughter of the presidential in-law, police chief Francisco Díaz. Radio Católica de Sébaco, in Sébaco; Radio Brothers, in Matagalpa; Radio Stereo Fatima, in Rancho Grande; Radio Our Lady of Lourdes, from La Dalia; Radio Alliens, from San Dionisio; Radio Monte Carmelo, from Río Blanco and Radio San José; were the six stations annihilated.
Similarly, on August 2, the Daniel Ortega regime canceled the transmission license of Radio Vos, a community radio station in the department of Matagalpa, in the north of the country.
The Ortega dictatorship also directed the closure of Canal RB3 in Río Blanco, municipality of Matagalpa, in the midst of the wave of repression against the Catholic Church in Nicaragua.
In the last 72 hours, the dictator has launched a frontal offensive against the Catholic Church and its main religious leaderss, who have been victims of virulent attacks. In addition, there have been recorded attacks, prison, persecution, siege, desecration against the same parishioners.
