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The US Department of State has issued a statement condemning the Nicaraguan government’s shutdown of the Jesuit-run University of Central America, and callinlg for the “immediate unconditional release” of Catholic political prisoners, including Bishpo Rolando Alvarez.
The expelled women religious belong to ten religious communities, including the 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.
The Russian foreign minister announced the tour early last month, praising Latin American countries’ push for what Sergey Lavrov described as qualitatively new development of their regional cooperation.