Sisters Isabel and Cecilia Blanco Cubillo, who worked at the Fundación Colegio Susana López Carazo nursing home, were deported from Nicaragua. The two sisters had previously been in charge of the Rivas house in 1958. Both sisters arrived in Costa Rica on the afternoon of April 12, 2023.
Confiscation of Trappist monastery
The Trappist nuns' monastery in San Pedro de Lóvago was confiscated by the Nicaraguan government and handed over to the Nicaraguan Institute of Agricultural Technology, or INTA for short. The nuns arrived in Nicaragua from Argentina on 2071/2001 but left the country on February 24, after 22 years of service for various reasons.
In a Facebook post on April 11, 2023, the nuns explained that “we have left the monastery in the hands of the diocese while the voluntary closure of the monastery is being worked out with the Ministry of Interior (MIGOB). ).”
“On March 1, the document on the voluntary closure was presented to the Ministry of the Interior, and on March 3 the authorities appeared to orally inform our Bishop that they can no longer go to the monastery and the Nicaraguan Institute of Agricultural Technology will operate there.”
Other deportations
In July 2022, the Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta were expelled from Nicaragua after Congress abolished their legal status. At the beginning of Holy Week, Father Donaciano Alarcón, a Panamanian missionary of the Order of Saint Claré, was expelled for praying for the convicted Bishop Rolando Álvarez, bishop of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of Estelí. more than 26 years in prison. He has been in prison since February 9, 2022 after being under house arrest since August 19, 2022.
The Catholic community in Nicaragua experienced a difficult Holy Week after President Ortega banned traditional public events during the period. More than 3,000 processions in Nicaragua were banned and about 20 people were arrested.
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