Lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina denounced that the Nicaraguan regime has “kidnapped” Father Osman José Amador Guillén for having requested prayers for Bishop Rolando Álvarez, the Bishop of Matagalpa who is still imprisoned.
The author of the report “Nicaragua, a persecuted Church?”, indicated that the priest “was kidnapped by the Sandinista Police” on Friday night.
“There was no court order to justify his arrest. His whereabouts are unknown. He recently asked to pray for Bishop Rolando Álvarez and that is why they kidnapped him,” he stated.
According to the media outlet El Confidencial, “sources from the Diocese of Estelí described that the kidnapping occurred around 10:00 at night when a group of riot officers broke into the Catholic temple, where a meeting between the members was taking place. of the clergy.”
Father Amador Guillén was the last director of Cáritas Estelí, closed by the Sandinista regime in March 2023.
For this reason, Martha Patricia Molina fears that Father Amador will be linked to the case of the priests Pastor Eugenio Rodríguez Benavides and Leonardo Guevara Gutiérrez, arrested in May.
According to the local press, they are being investigated regarding “administrative matters of the extinct Cáritas Diocesana de Estelí” and are currently in Managua.
In statements given in August, Martha Patricia Molina explained that in Nicaragua “the parishes are watched 24 hours a day by people infiltrated” by the regime.
“In fact, the homilies of the priests are always recorded and sent to what is known as El Carmen, which is the place where the dictatorial couple Ortega-Murillo lives” and where the speeches of the parish priests are analyzed.
Likewise, he indicated that the Sandinista regime has also “forbidden mention of Bishop Rolando Álvarez in Masses and prayers.”
Lay groups, priests, and seminarians secretly pray for the Bishop of Matagalpa, “because whoever mentions him in the homily, in the Mass (…), is immediately visited by the police” and can even be arrested.