US Representative Maria-Elvira Salazar (R-Fl) has filed a bill to reauthorize sanctions on Nicaragua in light of the Nicaraguan government’s recent hostile acts towards Catholic officials.
Bishop Rolando Jose Álvarez Lagos of Matagalpa is monitored by police, August 2022. / Photo credit: Diocese of MatagalpaRome, Italy, Aug 20, 2022 / 17:49 pm (CNA).The arrest of Bishop Rolando Jose Alvarez Lagos of Matagalpa is a "very serious act", which must focus attention on what is happening to Christians in Nicaragua, the head of the Italian bishops conference has said.Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna indicated the Italian bishops solidarity with their Nicaraguan counterparts in a letter sent to Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutierrez of Jinotega, president of the Nicaraguan bishops conference.Zuppi s initiative is not isolated. Cardinal Omella, president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, had had a similar initiative, and it is to be imagined that other episcopal conferences will take a stand. On the other hand, by now the anti-Christian virulence of the Ortega presidency in Nicaragua has reached a new summit with the arrest of a bishop - and of seminarians and ot
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