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The Nicaraguan dictatorship has forced the Poor Clare nuns to leave their monasteries in Managua and Chinandega in an action described by a well-known researcher as a “night of terror.”
According to the newspaper Mosaico CSI, the dictatorship’s order was carried out on the night of Jan. 28, forcing some 30 cloistered nuns belonging to the Order of St. Clare to leave their monasteries.
An ecclesiastical source cited by the Nicaraguan newspaper states that the dictatorship’s envoys “first went to notify the sisters (in the Monastery of the Franciscan Poor Clare Sisters) in Managua and then went to Chinandega (to the Monastery of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary).”
“They were told they had to leave and they were allowed to take some of their belongings,” the source added.
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According to the newspaper Mosaico CSI, the dictatorship’s order was carried out on the night of Jan. 28, forcing some 30 cloistered nuns belonging to the Order of St. Clare to leave their monasteries.
An ecclesiastical source cited by the Nicaraguan newspaper states that the dictatorship’s envoys “first went to notify the sisters (in the Monastery of the Franciscan Poor Clare Sisters) in Managua and then went to Chinandega (to the Monastery of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary).”
“They were told they had to leave and they were allowed to take some of their belongings,” the source added.
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Nicaragua dictatorship forces cloistered nuns to leave monasteries
The dictatorship’s order reportedly was carried out on the night of Jan. 28, forcing some 30 cloistered nuns belonging to the Order of St. Clare to leave their monasteries.