With the departure of the charge d’affaires, the Apostolic Nunciature leaves Nicaragua | news today

A faithful Nicaraguan Catholic holds an image of Pope Francis, during an outdoor mass, to demand an end to violence in his country, in front of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Managua.

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The charge d’affaires “ad interim” -interim- of the Vatican in NicaraguaMarcel Diouf, left the country on Friday, with which the diplomatic delegation was closed, the news portal Vatican News reported this Saturday, amid tensions between Managua and the Holy See.

“Yesterday, March 17, the charge d’affaires, ai, Monsignor Marcel Diouf, left the country and moved to Costa Rica,” the outlet noted.

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He added that “the closure of the diplomatic headquarters of the Holy See occurred as a result of a request from the Nicaraguan government on March 10” last.

“Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, custody of the Apostolic Nunciature and its assets [en Managua] it was entrusted to the Italian Republic”, he explained.

Diplomatic relations between Managua and the Vatican were on the brink of breaking the previous Sunday, when the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that “a suspension of diplomatic relations has been proposed” with that European State.

This statement came days after, in an interview with the Argentine portal Infobae, the dad Francisco described the government of the Central American country, headed by socialist President Daniel Ortega, as a “rude dictatorship” and that the president suffers from an “imbalance.”

During the interview, the dad The Argentine also made reference without naming him to the Nicaraguan bishop Rolando Álvarez, sentenced in February to 26 years in prison for, among other charges, “undermining national integrity.”

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The 56-year-old Bishop of Matagalpa had been detained since August accused of conspiracy and refused to be deported to the United States with 222 other opponents released and expelled from the country accused of “traitors to the homeland.”

In turn, the pontiff’s statements came a few days after the government of the Central American country decided to close two universities linked to the Catholic Church.

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