The former spokesman for the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) and coadjutor bishop-elect of Granada, Monsignor José María Gil Tamayo, showed his support for the Nicaraguan Church, which is being subjected to the repression of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
“Our solidarity and prayer for the Church in Nicaragua, besieged in its freedom by the dictatorship that governs the country,” Monsignor Gil Tamayo said through his Twitter account. Twitteraccompanied by photographs of Monsignor Rolando Álvarez and the police siege of the San Miguel de Masaya parish.
The also apostolic administrator of Ávila joins other priests and bishops from Spain and Latin America who have condemned the religious persecution imposed by Ortega against the Church.
Last week, the Archbishop of Madrid and Vice President of the Spanish Episcopate, Cardinal Carlos Osoro Sierra, also expressed his solidarity with the bishops of Nicaragua.
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“I pray for the people of Nicaragua and for the Church that pilgrims in the country, which, with its testimony, makes the Gospel present as Santo Domingo de Guzmán requested,” Osoro wrote last Monday, August 8, through his Twitter account. .
Osoro is one of the main referents of Pope Francis in Spain and also a Catholic leader who has a personal friendship with the Pontiff.
At the head of religious persecution
The pontifical foundation “Aid to the Church in Need” in its Spanish branch denounced that Nicaragua has placed itself at the head of the regimes that repress freedom of worship and religion in Latin America.
