“Sandinista police kidnap Monsignor Marcos Diaz Prado, pastor of the Santo Tomás Apóstol Church in the port of Corinto,” in the Pacific Ocean, says Molina, author of the study entitled ‘Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?’, through her account. network X (formerly Twitter).
According to the researcher “To date, there has been no formal accusation against him.” of Díaz Prado, from the Diocese of León and Chinandega, in northwestern Nicaragua, and that “there is no information about his whereabouts.”
The lawyer had previously denounced the man’s arrest priest Fernando Calero, pastor of Our Lady of Fátima in the municipality of Rancho Grande, of the diocese of Matagalpa (north).
The Calero priest was “kidnapped by the National Police in his parish” after mentioning imprisoned Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who presides over the Matagalpa diocese, in a Mass, Molina said, clarifying that there is no formal accusation against the religious.
Díaz Prado and Calero join the priests Carlos Avilés and Héctor Treminio, vicar general and treasurer of the Archdiocese of Managua, respectively, who were also detained by police and civilians on Thursday.
Last week, authorities arrested him Bishop Isidoro Mora, two priests and two seminarians.
Neither the government nor the National Police have confirmed or denied the alleged arrest of the religious.
The Nicaraguan Cardinal and Archbishop of Managua, Leopoldo Breneshas not yet commented on those arrests.
The one who did that was the exiled auxiliary bishop of Managua. Silvio Baezwho ordered Pope Francis to leave Nicaragua for security reasons in 2019, expressing outrage over the imprisonment of three priests from the Archdiocese of Managua.
Source: El heraldo
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