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By Grace Porto, CatholicVote, December 4, 2024
CV NEWS FEED // Bishops from Central America have called for the faithful to observe Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, as a day of prayer for Nicaragua, which is facing rampant religious persecution from the Nicaraguan government under President Daniel Ortega.
In November, Ortega banned priests from administering Last Rites in hospitals. The regime exiled Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez of Jinotega, president of the Nicaraguan Episcopal Conference, the same month, sending him to Guatemala. Bishop Rolando José Alvarez of Matagalpa was exiled to Rome in January after spending 500 days in a prison that Rep. Chris Smith (R.-NJ) has described as “Ortega’s gulag.”
“Let us express our profound solidarity and communion with the people of God in Nicaragua, who often face a challenging reality,” bishops from Guatemala, Panama, Costa Rica, and El Salvador said in a statement, Vatican News reported Dec. 1. …
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