January 21, 2024 / 09:32 AM
Researcher Martha Patricia Molina denounced that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his wife and vice president, Rosario Murillo, has expelled three priests from the same congregation from Nicaragua, in addition to having canceled their legal personality. Two of them are Mexican.
The author of the report Nicaragua: A persecuted Church? which accounts for hundreds of attacks by the dictatorship against the Catholic Church in recent years, had already reported the kidnapping and expulsion of the Mexican priest Ezequiel Buenfil, a member of the Missionaries of the Holy Savior Congregation.
On January 20, in his account red social X, the lawyer also pointed out that “since January 14, 2024, priests belonging to the religious order of the Most Holy Savior of the Diocese of León received threats from the police when they returned from celebrating Holy Mass in the Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish of Corinto. Since that day the Ppbro. Ezequiel Buenfil and Fr. Erick Figueroa disappeared and then were expelled.”