The Nicaraguan regime prohibited the Catholic Church of Nicaragua from holding the procession of Jesus in the Sacrament in Managua on January 1, 2023, forcing Catholic leaders to celebrate it inside the Metropolitan Cathedral
The Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Managua, Leopoldo Brenes, He announced on Thursday, December 29, at the end of a morning mass, that it was arranged that days of prayer for peace be held in all the parishes, as has been done throughout this year.
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According to information from the newspaper La Prensa, it has been unofficially known that the Church’s orientation to carry out religious activities inside the temples is extensive to all Catholic parishes in Nicaragua.
This is the second consecutive year that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega prohibits this procession from taking place, thus beginning 2023, with its well-known attack on religious freedom.
The lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina affirms that this 2022 was the “most disastrous for the Nicaraguan Catholic Church” upon receiving from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega 140 attacks.
Among the most relevant hostilities, the lawyer highlighted “unfair” criminal proceedings against priests, who were not attached to what the country’s laws mandate.
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At the end of October 2022, Martha Patricia Molina presented the second edition of Nicaragua: a persecuted church?, which registered 96 attacks against the Catholic Church in four years of repression and an end-of-year update reporting a total of 410 assaults.
The political organization Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos) pointed out that in 2022 the administration of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo consolidated “its totalitarian and illegitimate regime”, in addition to continuing to repress and imprison opponents, journalists, laymen, priests and bishops of the Nicaraguan church. .
In a releasethe opposition block assured that, during these last 12 months, the Ortega regime “deepened the repression against our party, civil organizations, journalists, the media, relatives of the persecuted, and in particular against the Catholic Church, locking up lay people, priests and Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, Bishop of Matagalpa».
Likewise, he stressed that “nearly 400,000 Nicaraguans have emigrated since 2018 goaded by lack of hope, poverty and suffocation, due to the climate of terror imposed by the dictatorship.”
Berta Valle, wife of the former presidential candidate and political prisoner Felix Maradiagareported the rehearsals she has done with her daughter Alejandra —Maradiaga— before a possible phone call with her father, with whom she has not had communication for more than 500 days.
«I told a friend about the illusion we have at the possibility of being granted the first phone call with my husband @maradiaga. He very wisely suggested that I prepare Alejandra, our 9-year-old daughter, so that she can talk to her father after a year and a half, “explained the communicator through her Twitter account.
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He explained that together with his little daughter they sat down “to imagine the moment when the cell phone rings and it is his father on the other side.” In case it is a video call, they also did a rehearsal.
The Brazilian Edson Arantes do Nascimento ‘Pele’, Considered by many to be the best soccer player of all time, he died this Thursday at the age of 82, due to complications from cancer, according to local media.
Pelé passed away surrounded by several of his children and grandchildren, who spent Christmas with him at the Sao Paulo hospital where he had been admitted since November 29.
“Everything we are is thanks to you. We love you infinitely. Rest in peace, “said her daughter Kely Nascimento on Instagram, accompanying a photograph with the intertwined hands of the children of the” king “of soccer, who this Thursday completed a month in hospital.
