The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua seized a house of nuns and turned it into an office of the Directorate of Migration and Immigration, which is part of the Ministry of the Interior.
The researcher and lawyer Martha Patricia Molina denounced that the old house of the Poor Sisters is in the city of León, northwest of Nicaragua. The walls are still the same color and inside the same furniture of the nuns is still preserved. Currently, you can see the logo of the Ministry of the Interior on the façade.
“Sandinista dictatorship confiscates property of the Poor Sisters of Jesus Christ who in July 2023 were expelled by the Sandinista dictatorship. Police remained inside but until now they have turned it into a State institution,” Molina said on his social network account X on 5 February.
“They didn’t even change the color of the walls or the furniture that the nuns used. “The criminal Ministry of the Interior doing its thing,” he added.
“I am informed that there are plans for upcoming confiscations of religious buildings,” lamented the author of the report Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church? , which accounts for hundreds of attacks by the dictatorship against Catholics in the Central American country.
The nuns were expelled from Nicaragua on 2 July 2023. There were seven Brazilian missionaries. Today they live in El Salvador, where they continue their mission.
The Sisters of the Poor Fraternity of Jesus Christ arrived in Nicaragua in 2016 from Brazil, where they were founded by priest Gilson Sobreiro. They are also present in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
Their expulsion from Nicaragua occurred a year after the expulsion of a group of Missionaries of Charity, the congregation founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who were later welcomed in the Diocese of Tilarán-Liberia, in Costa Rica.