A source linked to the congregation of the Redemptorist fathers denounced that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo prevented the Costa Rican priest from entering Walter Hidalgo, who gave his pastoral service in the Santísimo Redentor parish in Managua.
“Yesterday, the authorities denied re-entry into the country to the Redemptorist priest and missionary Walter Hidalgo, who was returning from his vacation in his native country of Costa Rica. Father Walter is the current vicar of the Most Holy Redeemer parish », he revealed exclusively for Article 66 a priest of the Redemptorist Fathers on condition of anonymity.
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According to the religious complainant, Father Hidalgo ran the María Romero soup kitchen in Managua, which feeds elderly people and children living in poverty in the area near the parish.
This dining room was blessed and inaugurated in 2010 by the auxiliary bishop of Managua, Monsignor Silvio José Báez, currently in exile in Miami, USA.
Likewise, Father Hidalgo directed the parish dispensary.
The source explained that although it is the first time that the regime has used arbitrariness against its religious congregation, it has preferred to file the complaint because “we must not be silent.”
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The religious complainant explained that Father Walter Hidalgo is a 70-year-old person, with mobility and speech problems, and deplored the action of the Ortega regime against his fellow priest, describing it as an “arbitrary attitude.”
Likewise, he confirmed that although the Redemptorist congregation has three other priests of Nicaraguan nationality in Central America, the superiors are afraid to send them to the parishes they administer in Nicaragua due to the growing hostility of Ortega against the Church.
