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MEXICO CITY (OSV News) — Since Christmas, Nicaraguan police and paramilitaries have detained more than a dozen priests, including an archdiocesan vicar, as the Sandinista regime escalates a campaign of terror against the Catholic Church — an institution it has struggled to subdue.
Reuters reported in the afternoon of Dec. 30 that the number of priests detained numbered 12 in the prior three days. On Jan. 1, citing Nicaraguan media outlet 100% Noticias and other local sources, Vatican News reported that a priest was arrested after he celebrated Mass on New Year’s Eve and that the number of priests detained over Christmas and New Year’s is now 14.
Pope Francis voiced his concern over the worsening situation of the persecuted Nicaraguan Church in his New Year’s Angelus prayer. Speaking to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis said he was “following with concern what is happening in Nicaragua, where bishops and priests have been deprived of their freedom.”
He expressed his “closeness in prayer to them, their families and the entire Church in the country,” urging that Catholics “pray insistently” to find “a path of dialogue to overcome difficulties.” “Let’s pray for Nicaragua today,” Francis said on Jan. 1.
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Reuters reported in the afternoon of Dec. 30 that the number of priests detained numbered 12 in the prior three days. On Jan. 1, citing Nicaraguan media outlet 100% Noticias and other local sources, Vatican News reported that a priest was arrested after he celebrated Mass on New Year’s Eve and that the number of priests detained over Christmas and New Year’s is now 14.
Pope Francis voiced his concern over the worsening situation of the persecuted Nicaraguan Church in his New Year’s Angelus prayer. Speaking to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis said he was “following with concern what is happening in Nicaragua, where bishops and priests have been deprived of their freedom.”
He expressed his “closeness in prayer to them, their families and the entire Church in the country,” urging that Catholics “pray insistently” to find “a path of dialogue to overcome difficulties.” “Let’s pray for Nicaragua today,” Francis said on Jan. 1.
Plea for solidarity
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A wave of priest arrests ends year in Nicaragua
Reuters reported in the afternoon of Dec. 30 that the number of priests in Nicaragua detained numbered 12 in the prior three days. On Jan. 1, citing Nicaraguan media outlet 100% Noticias and other local sources, Vatican News reported that a priest was arrested after he celebrated Mass on New...
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