"Glory to God in April, to the true God of the true God, not to the God invented by those who, full of evil, sowed so much suffering and pain among Nicaraguan families," Rosario Murillo, wife of Daniel Ortega, evangelized this Wednesday, referring to much of the country that rebelled against the dictatorship in 2018.
The televised harangue of the "co-president" is the icing on the cake of the persecution undertaken by the Sandinista regime against priests and faithful of the Catholic Church, whom it has prohibited from holding a good part of the Holy Week processions. "We see that God as part of a manipulation of those who do not believe in him, do not live Christianity, do not know how to be respectful and supportive, they only know of greed, of greed. That's how they are, they swear the name of God in vain," Murillo finished.
One of the main traditions of these dates, the procession of the "Cirineos" in homage to the man who carried the cross of Jesus Christ, was not only expressly prohibited in the municipality of Nindirí, in the department of Masaya. According to what human rights activists have denounced, two "Cyrenees" were detained by the police forces, one of them for going out into the street dressed as a Nazarene and with a cross on his shoulder. The agents of the dictatorship have captured three other people, in a provisional balance.
In a surreal video, viralized on social networks, you can see how the "Jesus Christ" and several companions with crosses run through the streets chased by the police. "Jesus was a victim of the political powers of his time," Monsignor Silvio José Báez, archbishop of Managua in exile in the United States, took the opportunity to denounce.
One of the few processions that will be allowed, under close surveillance, is the waterway of the cross in the Great Lake Nicaragua, during which the image of Jesus of Nazareth is carried with his hands tied aboard a boat. The government has prohibited the traditional prayer of the priest who accompanies the procession, as well as the 14 meditations at each of the stations.
"The Police accused me of rioting the people and of carrying out processions," the Panamanian priest Donaciano Alarcón explained to a station in his country. "They put me in a patrol, they took me to the Honduran border, they made me cross and they told me I couldn't go back," said the priest, who was even forced to walk barefoot.
The true "sin" of Father Alarcón is having called in his homilies for the release of the rebel bishop, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, who has defied Ortega by refusing to be exiled to the US. In revenge, the Sandinista boss ordered his judges to sentence him to 26 years in prison for treason. Álvarez remains confined in a punishment cell at the La Modelo penitentiary.
In addition to Álvarez, among the 37 political prisoners imprisoned in Ortega's dungeons, after the exile of the 222, are two Catholic priests: Manuel Salvador García and José Leonardo Urbina, from the diocese of Granada.
"The Nicaraguan dictatorship wants to confront the Catholic and Evangelical Churches. A carrot for the Evangelicals and a stick for the Catholics. A diabolical and perverse act. Typical of an atheist dictatorship drunk with power and wealth," lamented Arturo MacFields, who was Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) until he was dismissed due to his denunciations.
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