ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 17:00 pm
A total of four priests have now been arrested in just two days in Nicaragua. From Dec. 28–29, the Sandinista regime, headed by Daniel Ortega, abducted the priests, whose whereabouts are still unknown.
Silvio José Báez, the auxiliary bishop of Managua living in exile in the United States due to persecution from the Ortega regime, denounced Dec. 28 on X the abduction of three of these priests.
The priests are: Monsignor Carlos Avilés, vicar general of the Archdiocese of Managua; Father Héctor Treminio, pastor of Holy Christ Parish in Esquipulas in the same archdiocese; and Father Fernando Calero, pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Rancho Grande in the Diocese of Matagalpa. Their whereabouts is unknown.
Báez protested on X: “I am outraged by the unjust abduction of three beloved priests from Managua by the criminal Sandinista dictatorship.”