#BreakingNews Catholic Priest Fr. Donaciano Alarcón Valdés Suddenly Forced to Leave Nicaragua by Government

Father Donaciano Alarcón, a Panamanian Claretian missionary was expelled from Nicaragua by the government of Daniel Ortega, to Honduras. 

On Monday, April 3, Ortega’s government surprisingly expelled the Claretian missionary Fr. Donaciano Alarcón Valdés. He is originally from Colón (Panama), and at 49-year-old was pastor of the María Auxiliadora Parish of San José de Cusmapa. He was forced to leave Nicaragua and find refuge in Honduras.

 Father Alarcón was accused of violating the decrees that prohibit public demonstrations during Holy Week. Father Ismael Montero Toyos, superior of the Central American Claretians, was also interviewed, who spoke about the situation in Alarcón, and the missionaries who are still in Nicaraguan territory, most of them foreigners. "We prefer that they expel them than put them in jail," said Father Montero. 49-year-old Panamanian priest Donaciano Alarcon Valdes, who was on a mission in Cusmapa, Nicaragua, was expelled in the early hours of Monday night by order of Daniel Ortega's dictatorship.

Archbishop of Panama Monsignor Jose Domingo Ulloa said he regrets the decision of the Nicaraguan government to expel Panamanian priest Donaciano Alarcon Valdés, 49 years old and prays doubly for the people of Nicaragua and for what they are suffering right now. 

The priest Alarcon was taken out of Nicaragua by authorities in that country and left, according to some reports, barefoot, on the border with Honduras, from where he was moved to San Pedro Sula, where he currently is, the Panamanian Archbishop reported.

Fr. Alarcón was not allowed to retrieve his personal papers or belongings he had in the parish. According to local news, the confiscated Fr. Alarcón’s personal computer and his cell phone.

(Sources: La Página Panamá and

https://radiohogar.org/fraile-claretiano-panameno-se-encuentra-bien-y-seguro-despues-de-su-expulsion-de-nicaragua/