ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 31, 2023 / 16:30 pm
Researcher and lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, a member of the editorial board of the newspaper La Prensa, reported that the dictatorship led by President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua has expelled 65 nuns from the country between 2022 and 2023, a period of a year and a half.
“From 2022 through 2023, 65 women religious have been expelled and six women from different religious congregations have been prohibited from entering, for a total of 71,” Molina wrote on Facebook July 29.
The lawyer is also the author of the report “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?”, which documents the more than 500 attacks against the Church in the country since 2018.
According to Molina, a total of 10 religious congregations in the country have been affected, including Dominicans of the Annunciation, Missionaries of Charity, Trappist nuns, Women Religious of the Cross of the Sacred Heart, and Sisters of the Fraternity of the Poor Ones of Jesus Christ of Nicaragua.