Monsignor Silvio Báez, auxiliary bishop of Managua, continues to demand that the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo report on the legal and physical situation of Monsignor Rolando Alvarez, bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, kidnapped since August 4.
“As an exiled bishop, I understand what my brother bishop, Rolando Álvarez, is going through. I know how painful it is for a bishop to be deprived of being with his people, “said the prelate from his Twitter account.
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“I demand to know where and how Rolando —Álvarez— is, and that he be released now,” demanded the priest; he also asked “the Church throughout the world to join this demand.”
Báez has been one of the religious voices that has most demanded that the Ortega justice system report on Monsignor Álvarez, who this Tuesday, September 27, He has been kidnapped for 57 days.
The also apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Estelí was deprived of his freedom since August 4, when the Police at the service of the dictator Daniel Ortega surrounded the Episcopal Curia where he was. On the 19th of the same month, police agents raided the building where he was together with priests, two seminarians and a layman.
The hierarch was reduced to “house arrest” while his companions were detained in the Directorate of Judicial Assistance (DAJ), known as “El Nuevo Chipote” in Managua, where they remain captive, carrying out a process described by specialists as anomalous and arbitrary. .
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Although it is not officially known where Monsignor Álvarez is, a source revealed to Article 66 that the priest is at the home of some relatives, near the Cargill company, on the road to Masaya.
After the social protests of 2018, the Ortega dictatorship has attacked the Catholic Church of Nicaragua, calling it a “coup” and “terrorist.” In this 2022, the religious institution has experienced the greatest repression that it would have experienced in the country.
To date, the regime keeps nine priests behind bars, two of them —Monsignor Leonardo Urbina de Boaco and Father Manuel Salvador García— convicted of common crimes, has also prevented freedom of worship,
For its part, the Nicaraguan regime has shown no sign of wanting to solve the crisis that Nicaragua is experiencing, rather it continues to besiege and prevent freedom of worship and processions.
