Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega / Credit: Flickr Foreign Ministry of Ecuador (CC BY-SA 2.0)CNA Newsroom, Dec 21, 2022 / 11:27 am (CNA).The president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, once again attacked the Catholic Church in the Central American country, accusing it of "calling for bloodshed," and said, "I never had respect for the bishops."The Sandinista dictator made the statement Dec. 19 during the 25th commencement for graduates in police sciences from the Walter Mendoza Martínez Police Academy."I never had respect for the bishops, I couldn t believe in the bishops, in some priests, and in that approach there were exceptions of priests who practiced Christianity like Gaspar García Laviana, who without being Nicaraguan had more commitment to the people," Ortega said.Influenced by liberation theology, Gaspar García Laviana was a Spanish priest and guerrilla fighter who took up arms and participated in the communist Sandinista revolution in its fight ag
In Nicaragua, Catholic priests and institutions are under siege. In the last five months, the Ortega regime has increased its persecution of the Church, accusing them of being ‘terrorists.’ However, the crisis in Nicaragua is not as clear-cut as it might seem.. By Antonio Castillo