മിണ്ടാമഠത്തിലെ സന്യാസിനിമാരെ മനാഗ്വയിലെയും ചൈനാൻഡേഗയിലെയും അവരുടെ സന്യാസ മഠങ്ങളിൽ നിന്നും പുറത്താക്കി നിക്കരാഗ്വൻ സ്വേച്ഛാധിപത്യ ഭരണകൂടം. മൊസൈക്കോ സി. എസ്. ഐ. പത്രം പറയുന്നതനുസരിച്ച് ജനുവരി 28-ന് രാത്രിയാണ് സ്വേച്ഛാധിപത്യ ഭരണകൂടം തങ്ങളുടെ ഉത്തരവ് നടപ്പിലാക്കിയത്. തൽഫലമായി ഓർഡർ ഓഫ് സെന്റ് ക്ലെയറിലെ 30 ഓളം സന്യാസിനിമാർക്ക് അവരുടെ മഠങ്ങൾ വിട്ടുപോകേണ്ടിവന്നു.

“സ്വേച്ഛാധിപത്യ ഭരണകൂടം ആദ്യം മനാഗ്വയിലെ ആശ്രമത്തിലും പിന്നീട് ചൈനാൻഡേഗയിലെ ആശ്രമത്തിലും എത്തി സന്യാസിനിമാരോട് മഠം വിട്ടുപോകണമെന്ന് പറയുകയും അവരുടെ ചില സാധനങ്ങൾ മാത്രം എടുക്കാൻ അനുവദിക്കുകയും ചെയ്തു” നിക്കരാഗ്വൻ ഉറവിടം കൂട്ടിച്ചേർത്തു. പുറത്താക്കപ്പെട്ട സന്യാസിനിമാരിൽ ഭൂരിഭാഗംപേരും നിക്കരാഗ്വൻ സ്വദേശികളാണ്. അവർ എവിടെയാണെന്ന കാര്യം അജ്ഞാതമായി തുടരുന്നു.

നിക്കരാഗ്വയിൽ കത്തോലിക്കാ സഭയ്‌ക്കെതിരെ സ്വേച്ഛാധിപത്യ ഭരണകൂടം നടത്തിയ ആയിരത്തോളം ആക്രമണങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ച് ‘നിക്കരാഗ്വ: എ പെർസിക്യുട്ടഡ് ചർച്ച്’ എന്ന റിപ്പോർട്ടിന്റെ രചയിതാവും അഭിഭാഷകയുമായ മാർത്ത പട്രീഷ്യ മൊലിന വെളിപ്പെടുത്തിയിരുന്നു.
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Nicaragua’s government has expelled over 30 nuns from three convents in its latest assault on detractors, and their whereabouts are unknown, a researcher and exiled media reported on Wednesday.

Martha Patricia Molina, a Nicaraguan lawyer and expert on matters concerning the Catholic Church, told AFP the women were “evicted from their monasteries” overnight by government agents.

It was not known if the nuns, mainly Nicaraguan, had left the country, said Molina, herself in exile in the United States.

Nicaragua has jailed hundreds of real and perceived opponents since former leftist guerrilla Daniel Ortega returned to power in 2007, quashing presidential term limits and seizing control of all branches of the state.

According to the United Nations, more than 300 people died in a crackdown on 2018 protests, which Ortega’s government denounced as an attempted coup.

Most independent and opposition media now operate from abroad.

One of them, the online news site Confidencial operating from Costa Rica, reported the nuns were expelled from convents in the capital Managua and two other sites.

The exiled La Prensa newspaper said the order the women belonged to had its credentials scrapped by the government in 2023 with other Church-linked NGOs.

Ortega and his wife, vice president Rosario Murillo, accuse the Catholic Church of supporting the 2018 protests.

A constitutional reform approved last year is due to come into effect within days, giving Ortega and Murillo absolute power over all affairs of state.

It allows for the media and the Church to be monitored for any allegiance to “foreign interests.”

Ortega’s Sandinista rebels toppled a US-backed dictatorship in Nicaragua in 1979.

He led the country until 1990 and returned to power in 2007 with a more moderate program.

But in recent years he has seized control of all branches of government and led a sweeping crackdown on groups he sees as a threat to his rule.

Hundreds of politicians, businesspeople, journalists, intellectuals, human rights activists and religious figures have been expelled from Nicaragua and stripped of their nationality since February 2023, accused of treason.

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China — The drawn-out saga between the People’s Court of Shunde District in Foshan, Guandong, and the Shengjia House Church seems to be ending.

On Jan. 17, the People’s Court sentenced Preacher Deng Yanxiang to two years in prison. He is scheduled to be released in May because he has already served more than 18 months.

Preacher Deng Yanxiang joins four other members of his house church who have been imprisoned for alleged illegal business operations. The charges were tied to the church’s publications, including Daily Bible Readings and Interpretations, which were sold and distributed to locals.

These five Shengjia Christians were arrested in August 2023 for their Christian literature and materials. Local Christians have said that charges by local Communist officials for fraud and “illegal business operations” are frequently used against unregistered house churches throughout China.
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Vietnamese authorities have arrested 71-year-old Pastor Nguyen Manh Hung in Ho Chi Minh City, charging him with spreading “anti-state propaganda.” Officers also detained his son during the same raid but later released him after several hours of interrogation.

Pastor Nguyen was taken into custody during a raid on his home, where police reportedly cut off electricity before entering the premises, according to Radio Free Asia, which said they handcuffed him as soon as he opened the door, citing an arrest warrant under Article 117 of Vietnam’s Penal Code.

The law prohibits the distribution of content deemed to be against the state, with penalties of up to 20 years in prison. Officials also seized mobile phones, laptops and some documents from the scene, the U.K.-based group Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported.

The pastor’s son, identified as Nguyen Tran Hien, was taken to the Ministry of Public Security’s Institute for Criminal Sciences on the same day. He was questioned about his father’s activities, including alleged bank transactions, before being released at midnight. He was not charged but had to surrender his phone and laptop during the interrogation process, according to witness accounts.

Pastor Nguyen was taken to a detention facility to be held for four months pending further investigation, based on statements from his family.

Authorities claim that Pastor Nguyen’s use of social media amounted to “anti-state propaganda,” reported the U.S.-based persecution watchdog International Christian Concern.

Investigators noted a Facebook post from Jan. 14 in which the pastor suggested that while Vietnam’s Communist Party once called land purchasers “cruel landlords,” it now refers to those who allegedly acquire land through abuse of power as “outstanding.”

Pastor Nguyen is the first individual arrested on such charges since the start of this year and the second since To Lam took office as Vietnam’s general secretary in August 2024.

Nguyen Manh Hung was previously associated with the Chuong Bo Protestant Church, an independent Mennonite congregation, and he remains a member of the Interfaith Council of Vietnam. The council advocates for religious freedom across the country. Neither the church nor the council are officially registered with Vietnamese authorities, which is required under law.

Although many of those who have encountered legal trouble in similar cases come from minority ethnic groups in Vietnam’s central highlands, Pastor Nguyen belongs to the Kinh majority group.

The pastor has faced repeated harassment from the authorities over the past 15 years. He has spoken out against reported instances of corruption and human rights violations in the country.

In 2015, he appeared before a U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee investigating alleged religious freedom violations in Vietnam.

His current detention is part of an ongoing clampdown on critics of the country’s one-party system. Cases involving criticism of the Communist Party or allegations of corruption often receive heightened scrutiny in Vietnam.

Before his ministry, Nguyen served as a soldier in the Northern Vietnam Army during the Vietnam War. He later worked in management roles and briefly entered a monastery before becoming a pastor in 2011.
Sources:Christian Post

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