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NEWS ANALYSIS: Pope Francis sparked a furor when he urged Chinese Catholics to be ‘good citizens,’ but experts say the Church, by its very nature, remains a thorn in the side of contemporary totalitarian regimes from China to Nicaragua.
Father Osman José Amador Guillén requested prayers for Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa.
The U.S. Department of State over the weekend announced visa restrictions against dozens of Nicaraguan officials amid broad civil-liberties violations from the country’s government, including the seizure of a Jesuit university in the country’s capital city.
The superior general of the Jesuits denounced the confiscation and expressed his solidarity with the UCA, its directors, and its teaching and administrative staff.
‘The U.S. condemns the regime’s ongoing repression of religious figures and institutions and we call for the immediate unconditional release of individuals of conscience imprisoned in Nicaragua, including Bishop Álvarez.’
The newspaper La Prensa reported that in recent months the dictatorship of Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, has denied entry to Nicaragua “to more than half a dozen priests and lay people, most of them Nicaraguan citizens.”
On Aug. 9, the regime frozen the bank accounts of the Central American University, run by the Society of Jesus.
The U.S. assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs requests unconditionally release of Father Fernando Zamora Silva and Bishop Rolando Álvarez as well as all those unjustly imprisoned in the Central American country.
Félix Maradiaga, president of the Foundation for the Freedom of Nicaragua and a former presidential candidate, is speaking out about ongoing persecution.
According to local media outlet Mosaico, the regime’s police took over the facilities of the St. Louise de Marillac Technical Institute, the only secondary school in the town of San Sebastián de Yalí in the Jinotega administrative district.
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