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Faith Under Siege in Nicaragua: u.s. Condemns Ortega’s Regime for Prohibiting Processions and Depressing the Faithful on Easter Week · Global Voices
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The Sandinista dictatorship has accumulated more than 27,000 forbidden processions since 2019, when it began to persecute the Catholic Church. In this season, it deployed up to 14,000 agents to monitor the temples. However, the Catholic faithful also attended Masses.
#SOSNicaragua: Holy Week is being celebrated in Nicaragua under siege, surveillance and threat from the #OrtegaMurillo regime, for the third consecutive year.
The government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo maintains the prohibition of public religious acts, while security forces monitor churches throughout the country. The measure affects traditional Holy Week celebrations in Nicaragua as viacrucis and religious tours; the authorities have deployed thousands of agents to monitor compliance with the restriction in temples and communities. They prohibit Holy Week processions in Nicaragua The prohib…
The beginning of Holy Week in Nicaragua was marked by a huge rush on the forecourt of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua. Under radiant sunshine and enveloped by the scent of incense, the faithful gathered early in the morning, palm branches in their hands and rosaries on their wrists to herald one of the most important celebrations in the Nicaraguan Catholic calendar. [...] The post Faith shines despite the changes during Holy Week in Managu…
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