Government of Nicaragua Expels 2 Catholic Nuns from the Country who Ran a Nursing Home Caring for the Elderly

Two Catholic nuns of the Dominican Congregation of the Annunciation have been expelled from Nicaragua.

The two nuns worked at a nursing home in Nicaragua and were expelled from the country this week. This comes, as the government of President Daniel Ortega has been suppressing opposition leaders, journalists and the Catholic Church.

Sister Isabel and Sister Cecilia Blanco Cubillo, are from the congregation Dominicas de la Anunciata.

The two nuns, both Costa Rican citizens, arrived in their home country on April 12th, according to the Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia.

A Facebook statement issued by the Bishop of that diocese, bishop Manuel Eugenio Salazar Mora, confirmed their presence and asked for prayers for the Church and for Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Alvarez of Matagalpa who was imprisoned in February, after having been sentenced to more than 26 years in jail for "undermining the state and society“, and for allegedly spreading false news.

Many faithful of the Catholic Church have been expelled from Nicaragua since the re-election of Ortega in 2021.

On the day before the expulsion of the two Costa Rican nuns, the Nicaraguan government also confiscated a Trappist Nuns' Monastery in San Pedro de Lovago and handed it over to the Institute of Agricultural Technology.

The Trappist nuns had left the monastery in February after having arrived in the nation from Argentina over twenty years ago.

During Holy Week the Catholic community in Nicaragua were banned from performing public events, including all Holy Week processions. The government arrested some 20 people and expelled the Panamanian Claretian missionary, Father Donaciano Alarcón, for praying for imprisoned bishop Rolando Álvarez.

Source: Vatican News and FB Page of Msgr. Mora - See Below: