The persecution perpetrated and sustained by the Ortega-Murillo regime against the Catholic Church is getting worse in Nicaragua. The parishioners are now also repressed by not allowing the presence of priests to anoint their sick within the country’s public hospitals.
Lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, researcher on religious persecution in Nicaragua, through her social networks, denounced that “nothing remains normal” in the country.
He pointed out that in the last week a priest had to go into exile as a result of the police persecution that was imposed on him by Ortega, and that in “hospitals they are prohibiting the entry of priests so that they can carry the Holy Oils for the anointing of the sick.” .
The Holy Oils are three oils generally consecrated by bishops of the Catholic Church, one of these the oil of the sick, also known as extreme unction, is applied to people who are seriously ill and, in some cases, when it is already known that these They are waiting for their death.
Said oil of the sick is applied by the priests to the hands and forehead of the sick person, they draw a cross on them and, then, they pray for the healing and comfort of the sick person, and the forgiveness of their sins.
Molina also pointed out that the nuns continue to be harassed by the Ortega regime, as do the relatives of priests in exile, who are “under extreme surveillance.”
The American official Marco Rubio, senator of the Republican Party of the State of Florida, in the United States, at the beginning of this month, precisely because of the persecution suffered in Nicaragua, also condemned “the brutal persecution against Christians, especially against Roman Catholics.” », through a publication on his X account.
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Rubio shared data from the report Persecuted and forgotten?prepared by the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need, in which Nicaragua is ranked as one of the 18 countries in the world where serious religious persecution is suffered.
In recent years, lawyer Molina has been updating her investigation “Nicaragua, a persecuted Church?”, which collects evidence of the religious persecution that the nation is experiencing from April 2018 to July 2024. It includes more than 800 attacks against the Catholic Church, which includes the banishment of more than 150 priests, closure of dozens of non-profit organizations and media outlets linked to the work of the Church, in addition to the theft of its assets.
