Nicaragua is forcing the nation’s Catholic priests to present themselves at local police stations weekly for questioning and submitting their homilies for review, the online Catholic outlet The Pillar reported on Wednesday.
The regime of communist dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife and “co-president” Rosario Murillo has waged an ongoing, relentless persecution against Nicaragua’s Catholic Church in retaliation for the Church’s support of the 2018 wave of anti-communist protests. Ortega responded to the peaceful protests with a brutal crackdown campaign that left over 300 dead.
Ortega’s persecution of Christianity dramatically escalated in 2022, the same year the communist dictator, a self-professed “Catholic,” declared a “war” against the Vatican, accusing it of using its priests to “stage a coup” against his regime. The escalation has
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