In the homily on Palm Sunday, when they commemorate the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Monsignor Silvio Jose Baezsaid that we cannot “ignore those crucified today” and that we be “compassionate with those who suffer, approaching the last in the world, listening to the cry of the victims and being in solidarity with their demands for justice.”
Monsignor Báez explained that God suffers from the poverty and uncertainty of those who are forced into exile in their countries. “God suffers with the political prisoners unjustly convicted and mistreated, God cries with the mothers of the victims of repression,” he stressed.
The prelate explained that “ignorance of the heart” is not knowing that by harming themselves they harm themselves and that by justifying their cruelty they condemn themselves; not knowing that by condemning the just, they kick God out of their lives and out of history. «They do not know or want to know that God is love and that is why they torture, unjustly condemn and kill with such cruelty.», said the auxiliary bishop in reference to the serious human rights crisis that the country has been going through since April 2018.
“God will bring justice to the victims”
The repression in Nicaragua has left 355 people dead since April 2018, according to updated figures compiled by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), four specialists who investigated the events against citizens, concluded that crimes against humanity were committed in Nicaragua and established responsibilities of the dictatorial couple for those facts.
“We only know that God suffers with us. We are not alone. In the crucified we contemplate a God incarnate in our sufferings, who cries in our tears and comforts us in our sorrows and misfortunes. We only know that no unjust cross is forever and that the God of life will do justice to the victims, he will resurrect the crucified peoples and bring life to life in the midst of our pain and anguish, “he assured.
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Nicaragua is immersed in a deep sociopolitical, economic and human rights crisis that worsened in 2018. The regime ordered the repression of the population that demonstrated against it and suffocated with bullets the popular expression that demanded the resignation of Ortega and Murillo.
“The greatest evil of our society”
Bishop Báez pointed out that indifference is the “greatest evil of society”, he pointed out that “it is inhuman to get used to seeing the pain of others without feeling anything in our own hearts, it is scandalous to become spectators of the injustice of the world from the comfortable balcony of indifference”.
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“As long as it is not our turn to suffer, as long as it is not us who suffer, what happens to others does not worry us too much, nor are we willing to expose ourselves or complicate our lives for them,” he added.
He affirmed that the logic of the world is to save oneself, to think of oneself, to go forward in life regardless of whether we trample on others, to live to win and have for oneself, «do anything in order to command and have power I. Save yourself and live for yourself is the slogan that sums up and explains the tragedy of humanity.
