Priest Jáder Danilo Guido Acosta, second vicar of the San Pedro Apóstol cathedral in the city of Matagalpa, has pleasantly surprised the virtual community with a video that has gone viral on TikTok.
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Father Jáder, as the parishioners call him in Matagalpa, is part of the group of clerics banished by the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, just last January 13, along with the bishops of Matagalpa and Siuna, Monsignor Rolando José Álvarez Lagos and Monsignor Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega, respectively.
The images also show the Vicar General of the Diocese of Matagalpa, Monsignor Óscar José Escoto Salgado, and the seminarian of the Diocese of Siuna, Alester de Jesús Sáenz Centeno, also from the group exiled on January 13 to the Vatican.
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Father Jáder’s video marks the first public appearance of the Matagalpino priests since their exile, and has as a backdrop the iconic phrase “This part of my life, this small part, I call happiness”, from the film “In Search of happiness”, in which “Chris Gardner”, played by Will Smith, gets a job.
Bishops Álvarez and Mora concelebrated a mass on January 14, when they arrived in Rome, and then, on January 25, the religious information portal, Religión Digital, published that Pope Francis would receive the banished clerics in a “private audience.” on January 26.
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No other information has emerged, until Father Jáder’s video, which has added a touch of unexpected modernity to this chapter in the lives of the banished clerics: 17 priests and two seminarians.
Previously, on October 18, 2023, the Ortega Murillo regime had exiled another group of 12 priests to Rome; and on February 9 of the same year, five priests, a deacon and two seminarians were among 222 political prisoners banished and sent to the United States.
CSI mosaic verified the lists of banished priests (34 in total), and documented first-hand testimonies of priests forced into exile—including some cases in which clerics preferred to avoid publication—and at least 37 Nicaraguan priests had to go into exile and request refuge in different nations; while the Ortega Murillo regime denied entry to the country to at least 21 more priests, and has expelled five foreign priests from Nicaragua.
Los data verified by Mosaico CSI indicate that, as of January 15, 2024, the Catholic Church had lost a fifth of the clergy it had in 2020, but there are Dioceses that have lost more than a third of their priests, which results in fewer religious services and fewer social works in the country. Matagalpa has lost 40 percent of its clergy.
2024-02-03 06:05:43
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