The Salesian priest Miguel Ángel Cano, 52, died in a traffic accident in Managua (Nicaragua) this Thursday, January 2.
According to the Nicaraguan newspaper The Pressthe priest lost control of the truck in which he was traveling and crashed into a tree at kilometer 105 of the Pan-American Highway.
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Accompanying the priest were three other people, who were injured: the spouses Lidia Daniela Mercado Salgado and Kevin Alexander Cruz Vargas; and a minor under 16 years of age, with the initials EJCV
“We join in prayer for the death of our brother Father Miguel Cano, SDB, product of a car accident this morning, January 2, 2025.
May the Lord grant him eternal rest and the reward for his dedication, May Mary Help of Christians guide and protect us,” the Salesian Bulletin wrote on its Facebook account.
The Archdiocese of Managua He also published a note of mourning, stating that “His Eminence Cardinal Leopoldo José Brenes, Metropolitan Archbishop of Managua and the Archdiocesan Clergy regret the sensitive death of Fr. Miguel Ángel Cano, SDB. Salesian Priest who was Parish Priest of the San Juan Bosco Parish in Managua.”
“The Archbishop and the clergy send their condolences to the family and the Salesian Congregation. Likewise, they send their prayers for the speedy recovery of the people who have been injured in the accident,” the text adds.
Father Cano, born on May 22, 1972, was also director of the Don Bosco youth center in Managua.
The San Juan Bosco parish specified that they will soon inform the time of the priest’s funeral Mass and burial. From 2:00 pm today, the doors of the temple remain open for those who wish to pray for the soul of Father Cano.
The death of the Salesian priest occurs in the midst of the very serious situation facing the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, persecuted for years by the dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife and “co-president” Rosario Murillo, who have expelled dozens of priests from the country, including four bishops.
The last delivery of the report Nicaragua: A persecuted Churchby exiled researcher Martha Patricia Molina, reported on December 29 of almost a thousand attacks perpetrated since 2018 by the dictatorship against the Catholic Church in Nicaragua.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.