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Daniel Ortega,
submerged up to his neck in his authoritarian and conspiracy drift, has executed the expulsion of the
Sisters of Teresa of Calcutta.
"It is an honor that their plants step on our diocese, we receive them with all the love they deserve for their service and dedication to God and the Church," Monsignor
Manuel Salazar,
Bishop of
Tilarán
, welcomed them today in neighboring
Costa Rica .
Liberia.
Sandinista agents "accompanied"
15 missionary sisters of charity, a congregation founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta to help the poorest, to the border.
Previously, the Sandinista parliamentary body had executed the presidential order, by canceling the legal status of another hundred non-governmental organizations.
The next step after their expulsion is the
closure of a daycare center, a home for young victims of abuse or neglect and a nursing home,
all of them maintained by the religious order on Nicaraguan soil.
Teenagers learned trades to reintegrate into society, as well as music and theater classes.
According to the report submitted by the government, the missionaries "failed to comply with their obligations" regarding the money laundering law, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
"We deeply regret the pain of so many of our brothers, who will no longer have the attention they received from our sisters, and we also express our gratitude for their invaluable service to our local churches. Blessed are the pure of heart, because they will see God", Cardinal
Leopoldo Brenes proclaimed in a statement.
"The wolves want the Church to be like a group of silent and blind lambs, insensitive to the conflicts, injustices and pain of the people. This is not how Jesus thought of his church," Monsignor
Silvio José Báez criticized in his homily
,
auxiliary bishop of
Managua
from
the United States.
Become a symbol of the fight against the dictatorship,
Pope Francis
decided to please Ortega by transferring Báez from the Nicaraguan capital to
Miami.
The most picturesque thing about the government maneuver is that the missionaries landed in Managua for the first time after the official visit of Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 1988,
during the first term of Ortega's presidency.
The trip had great regional repercussion.
"This is a declaration of hatred for the Church, for its charitable and evangelizing work. They sent the police to knock down gates and doors in a show of power to frighten and generate terror among the population," warned the
Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights ( Cenidh).
"What were these nuns doing in Nicaragua? Charitable works for the most helpless within their limited circumstances. The dictatorship expelled them, what does it gain from it? They do nothing but undress, that hypocritical speech, pseudo-religious and pseudo-Christian speeches,
are actually heretical speeches.
What threat can these nuns represent? Did they launder money? No, they simply fulfilled a Christian mission that terrifies them for the satanic in power," analyst
Enrique Sáenz denounced from exile.
Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia
The congregation of these missionaries is one of the nearly one thousand NGOs punished by the Sandinista revolution, which began by judging and condemning the
Violeta Barrios Foundation,
created by the former president, known as the
Mother of Democracy
in the Central American country.
The regime used this channel to arrest and convict Cristiana Chamorro, head of the foundation, the main favorite to win last year's elections.
Among the closed organizations is also the Academy of the Language of Nicaragua, whose closure caused a barrage of criticism from Spain.
The pro-government deputy Gustavo Porras defended the actions against national and international organizations during the latest attack, defining them as "a cleaning job" against the "instruments of neoliberalism."
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