NICARAGUA CANCELS LEGAL STATUS. Nicaragua has now made all of the Jesuit “Society of Jesus” illegal on technicalities. A week ago it seized the homes of Jesuits in Managua. It voided the legal status of the Jesuit-run Central American University (UCA). And it labeled UCA a “center of terrorism.” During this year alone, it has shut down 25 other universities in Nicaragua.
The UCA campus did serve as a rallying point for anti-government protests in 2018. But after that, the government sought out the Catholic church for mediation. However, since mediation has failed the government has cracked down harder and harder on Catholics.
Now, Nicaragua cites failure to report recent financial statements as its reason for cancelling Jesuits. But Christian Solidarity Worldwide Head of Advocacy Anna Lee Stangl doesn’t buy it. She is calling on the international community to hold President Daniel Ortega to account.
Ortega the messiah
Instead of Jesus, the government is exalting Ortega as national savior. His wife and VP, Rosario Murillo, heads a movement preaching allegiance to “God and Daniel.”
John said, “just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared. From this we know that it is the last hour” (1 John 2:18). Let’s make the most of the last hours we have left, before the Antichrist comes to turn off the lights. And “kindle afresh the gift of God” in us so that our spiritual lights will shine into his dark world (2 Tim. 1:6).
Image of Central American University by Chenanhe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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