Nicaragua expels 7 more Catholic priests
August 09, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Nicaragua has deported seven Catholic priests, sending them to Rome on August 7.
Earlier this week the Nicaraguan government had arrested 12 priests. Some of those who were arrested remained in custody, including Father Frutos Valle, the administrator of the Esteli diocese. Bishop Rolando Alvarez, who had been acting as apostolic administrator of that diocese since 2021, was arrested last year and exiled to Rome in January 2024.
This is the third time in less than a year that Nicaragua has exiled priests—including two bishops, Bishop Alvarez and Bishop Isidoro Mora of Siuna—to Rome. On two other occasions the Ortega regime deported priests to the US.
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