Nicaraguan bishop’s citizenship is revoked

AFTER the sentencing the RC Bishop of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, the Rt Revd Rolando Álvarez, to 26 years in jail earlier this month (News, 14 February), President Daniel Ortega’s regime has moved towards one other bishop, it’s reported. The Bishop of Managua, the Rt Revd Silvio José Báez, who already lives in exile within the United States, has been has been stripped of his citizenship, with 93 different Nicaraguans, together with Fr Uriel Vallejos, a priest from Matagalpa. Their property has been confiscated, and so they have been branded traitors to their nation. The day after Bishop Álvarez was sentenced, 222 Nicaraguans, accused of sedition, have been deported to the US.

Give up luxuries to offer clear water, charity urges

A LENTEN enchantment, “Jars of Change”, launched by WaterAid this week, asks folks to surrender luxuries and to donate the cash that they’d have spent to tasks to offer clear water to communites with out entry to it. WaterAid has developed fund-raising sources, out there at wateraid.org/donate, for church buildings and different religion teams. The charity’s director of communications and fund-raising, Jennie York, mentioned: “Access to clean water should be normal for everyone everywhere, but today, one in ten people have their access denied simply because of the circumstances they are born into.”

New Delhi rally held towards non secular discrimination

MORE than 15000 folks joined a rally in New Delhi on Sunday to protest towards anti-Christian discrimination, it’s reported. The United Christian Forum mentioned that there have been 598 incidents of violence against Christians in India in 2022: up by 400 per cent in a decade. Vatican News stories that the spokesperson for the All Indian Catholic Union, John Dayal, mentioned that 350 Christians have been in jail in Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India, merely for practising their religion, and that a whole bunch of Christians who have been a part of tribal communities had been pressured from their houses in Chhattisgarh. “We want the government to hear our cries and intervene and take steps to ensure the safety and security of Christians,” he mentioned.

Egyptian Christians launched from captivity

SIX Egyptian males who have been kidnapped in Libya on 6 February have been launched final Saturday after the fee of $90,000 in ransom cash, Christian Solidarity Worldwide stories. The organisation’s founder and president, Mervyn Thomas, welcomed the information, however criticised the “failure of the Libyan authorities to contain the dangerous extremist and criminal groups operating in the country”. He referred to as on the Libyan authorities to “do far more to discourage abductions and secure the release of all who are still in captivity, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, or belief”, and on the worldwide neighborhood to assist such endeavours.