The Hermanas Trapenses congregation denounced that the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo confiscated their monastery, located in Santa María de la Paz, in San Pedro del Lóvago, despite the fact that the association was voluntarily dissolved.
The nuns, who left the country on February 24, voluntarily and for personal reasons, indicated, through their Facebook account, that it was the Ministry of the Interior who informed them that the building was handed over to the Nicaraguan Institute of Agricultural Technology. .
The nuns indicated that the monastery and all material goods in Nicaragua would have come to be administered by the Diocese of Juigalpa, in charge of Bishop Marcial Guzmán, all this while the voluntary closure of the humanitarian association was being filed with the Ministry of the Interior. , but the Ortega regime appropriated the facilities.
The nuns arrived in Nicaragua on January 20, 2001, with the purpose of founding the Santa María de la Paz Monastery “to extend their contemplative work of prayer and devotion,” according to reports.
The departure of the Trappist Sisters occurred in a context where the Nicaraguan regime has intensified its wave of repression against the Catholic Church.
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The repression of the Ortega regime against religious has not stopped, this time the expulsion of two nuns from the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Anunciata, who attended the López Carazo nursing home, located in the city of Rivas, became known.
Sources from the Diocese of Granada revealed to the media outlet Dispatch 505 that the expelled nuns are the sisters Isabel and Rosario Blanco, the latter serving as director of the López Carazo Asylum Foundation.
It has been known that the nursing home is working “normally”, despite the fact that its director was expelled from the country. Article 66 learned that the two nuns entered Costa Rica this Wednesday. According to the actions of the Nicaraguan regime, this type of action is accompanied by stripping of legal personality and confiscations.
The exiled Nicaraguan community in Madrid, Spain, will hold a mass this coming Sunday, April 16, at 6 pm to request the release of Bishop Rolando Álvarez and in memory of the fifth anniversary of the start of the serious sociopolitical crisis that Nicaragua is experiencing. .
The organizers explained that it will be a moment of prayer so that a more fraternal and supportive society can be built in Nicaragua. In addition, they stressed that another of the fundamental pillars of the mass will be to show solidarity with Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, Bishop of Matagalpa, who is sentenced by Ortega to 27 years in prison.
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Nicaragua closed 2022 with a total external debt of 14,903.7 million dollars, which is equivalent to 95.1% of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the country (15,671.6 million dollars), reported the Nicaraguan Central Bank.
Given the increase in Nicaragua’s external debt, the economist Enrique Sáenz, He assured that if the administration of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo continue to indebt the country, the living conditions of Nicaraguans will not improve.
At least 44 people died during the Holy Week holidays in Nicaragua. Of the total deaths, 29 occurred due to submersion and 15 due to traffic accidents, according to the National System for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Attention (Sinapred).
In a report, the institution highlighted that in 2023 the number of drowned people increased to a figure of 10 more victims, in relation to last year’s season, when 19 were reported. Likewise, it explained that of the total number of drowned people, 25 were men and four women, including a minor who lost his life by submerging himself in a pool in the Kininowas River, in the Municipality of Wiwilí de Jinotega.
