Nicaraguan Bishop Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega, of the Diocese of Siuna, in the Caribbean of Nicaragua, was arrested this Wednesday by agents of the National Police, a day after he appealed in a homily to the imprisoned Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who was sentenced last February to more than 26 years in prison for crimes considered treason after refusing to leave his country.
“We condemn the kidnapping of Monsignor Isidoro Mora by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, which continues its continued persecution against the Catholic Church of Nicaragua,” the Libertad Religiosa Nicaragua community said on its social networks.
Bishop Mora “was arrested for sending messages and prayers in favor of the bishop of the city, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, who has been in prison in Nicaragua for more than 500 days,” he wrote on his social network account formerly Twitter) the former Ambassador of Nicaragua to the OAS Arturo McFields.
McFields, who rebelled against the Ortega government with a harsh and unexpected plea denouncing his country’s “dictatorship” and demanding the release of political prisoners, said the “Nicaraguan dictatorship is making progress in its time of attacks on the ‘Catholic’ Church, and that with Mora ‘two bishops are already in prison for preaching the gospel.’
Source: El heraldo
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