2023-10-19 02:00:00
By Walter Sánchez Silva
October 19, 2023 / 04:20 AM
The Nicaraguan dictatorship reported that it has released 12 priests, whom it had imprisoned for different reasons, and sent them to the Vatican after an agreement with the authorities of the Catholic Church.
Among those released is not Mons. Rolando Álvarez, Bishop of Matagalpa and Apostolic Administrator of Estelí, who was sentenced on February 10 to 26 years and 4 months in prison. One day before the sentencing, the Prelate refused to be part of the group of 222 deportees who were sent to the United States, who were later stripped of their nationality and property in Nicaragua by the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega.
In a statement dated October 18, the Ortega regime reports that the release of the 12 priests occurred “after holding fruitful conversations with the Holy See.” This group, the text adds, is headed to the Vatican and has “traveled to Rome, Italy, this afternoon.”
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