The Auxiliary Bishop of Managua (Nicaragua), Mons. Silvio Báez, in exile since 2019, will receive the prize Peace on earth For peace and freedom 2025, on July 9 in Davenport (United States).
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The prize was created in 1964 in honor of Pope San Juan XXIII and takes his name from the encyclical Peace on earth (Peace on earth), which calls all peoples to ensure peace between nations.
The prize Peace on earth It was created by the Davenport interracial council. According to his websiteDavenport’s diocese, with other organizations, “grants this award to honor a person for their achievements in peace and justice, not only in their country, but in the world.”
The first prize Peace on earth John F. Kennedy was granted in 1964. Since then, he has recognized personalities such as activist Dorothy Day and religious figures such as Mother Teresa de Calcutta.
Mons. Báez will receive the award in the cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Davenport, on July 9 at 7:00 p.m. (local time).
“Monsignor Báez has been a firm and prophetic voice against repression in Nicaragua. His word has been hope for thousands of Nicaraguans who dream of a free, fair and peace homeland. His commitment to the truth and defense of the most vulnerable transcends borders,” he says In X the Libertad Foundationdirected by the former political prisoner and presidential ex -candidate, Félix Maradiaga.
“Thank you, Monsignor, for being a guide, comfort and light in difficult times. Nicaragua takes him in the heart!” He exclaimed.
Mons. Silvio José Báez Ortega is auxiliary bishop of Managua (Nicaragua) since 2009. He is 67 years old.
On April 23, 2019, being one of the most critical voices of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua, he left his homeland in the face of the persecution of the regime. He has been in exile for more than six years.
In a mass that presided on January 4, 2025 in a parish of Los Angeles in the United States, Bishop Báez said: “Let’s not lose hope, let’s not lose trust and pray much this year for the Lord to grant us the miracle that all Nicaraguans year Fraternity. “
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.