The Nicaraguan bishop, Rolando Alvareza critic of the government of Daniel Ortega, denounced this Friday that he continues for the second consecutive day locked up in his curia due to the police siege, despite the vocation of “dialogue” and “peace” of the Catholic Church.
In this context, the vice president and wife of the president, Rosario Murilloreproached the bishop with hints in which he described his criticism as a provocation that he considers can be interpreted as a “crime”.
In this context, Murillo threatened Álvarez: “These are days to take into account that in this blessed country there are laws also, You cannot, you must not break the laws, much less commit crimes, because they provoke, flaunting impunity is a crime, especially when what is provoked is discord, debauchery, we are not for that”.
In dialogue with Canal 4Murillo added that in Nicaragua “There are laws. You cannot sow hatred or discord, on the contrary, we have to work in peace, with love, without hatred, without evil, without bitterness and without poison.
Without mentioning names, Murillo also said that “when self-respect is lost, or respect for another person, for the community, for the family, for symbols that, as we have said, are sacred, sacred symbols of our sacred beliefs, when respect is lost they are in a total loss of self-respect and the person is objectified, becomes a thing and what is gained, on the contrary, everything is lost and what is gained is the rejection of the person who provokes and the growing rejection of what we have known throughout our lives, as institutions that deserve respect”.
“And generating discredit for those institutions that deserve respect is also a crime, it is a sin once morest spirituality”threatened Murillo, who assured that Álvarez might be “imprisoned”.
“What corresponds to us human beings on this plane is build upno destroy and much less destroy each other or pretend it because that time has passed, or destroy oneself in those outbursts of fury that only vanity or pride can explain, “he concluded.
“The traffic route in front of our Curia is always closed and blocked by the National Police.. The main door as well as the exit garage is also blocked by the riot police, ”lamented Álvarez, during a mass that he broadcast on the social network.
Álvarez, bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa, northern Nicaragua, and member of the Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CEN) He said he remains inside the curia along with six priests and six lay people.
Although “This situation, we maintain our strength and inner peace” because “we are men and women with the capacity for dialogue, harmony, understanding” and “peace”, he stressed.
The prelate, 55 years old, began to be harassed on Thursday by the policefollowing raising his voice once morest the closure of several Catholic stations and the harassment that he said exists once morest the Catholic Church.
First, the police surrounded the curia, where he lives, to prevent him from leaving, and then the agents tried to prevent him from returning to the episcopal see to participate with other parishioners in the “crusade of prayer and protection of priests” what the church does.
After returning to the curia, the bishop demanded in a Eucharist the cessation of “harassment” and “harassment” to the priests and demanded that the government respect the “freedom” religious.
Then, on Thursday followingnoon, riot police were placed at the entrance to the curia to prevent him from going out to the cathedral to preside over a mass, the bishop himself denounced in a video posted by Cenidh on Twitter.
Álvarez announced that he will hold masses inside the curia until they let him out, and that at night they will hold “sung” of religious melodies.
(With information from EFE)
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