Nicaraguan authorities have banned the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order) and ordered the confiscation of all their assets, alleging tax fraud, Aleteia.org reported. Allegations of links to terrorism were also made.
Before that, the Central American University (a Jesuit, private university founded in 1960) was closed, and the Jesuit priests were evicted from their private residence in Managua.
For at least five years, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has systematically repressed the Catholic Church and religious freedom. The Society of Jesus is not the first religious order banned in Nicaragua. Last year, the Missionaries of Mercy were expelled from the country.
In just a few years, the dictator Ortega has confiscated the assets of over 3,000 non-governmental organizations. Ortega indiscriminately persecutes priests, secular organizations, and anyone with a direct or indirect connection to the Catholic Church.
Government Regulation 105-2023 decrees that the real estate and movable assets of the Society of Jesus in the country are transferred to the state. As with the other cases of termination of the legal entity established by the regime since 2018, the decision was taken without the administrative procedures established by law having been fulfilled. The Jesuits have no recourse to an impartial judge.
The Society of Jesus, more commonly known as the Jesuit Order, is a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. The members of the order are called Jesuits. The beginning of the order was given on August 15, 1534 by the Basque nobleman Ignatius Loyola and several of his associates in Paris, and the order itself was officially confirmed on September 27, 1540 in Rome by the bull of Pope Paul III.
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2023-08-29 20:49:00
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