Human rights defender Bianca Jagger has called upon the Catholic leaders and politicians around the world to speak out forcefully against the persecution of the Church in her native Nicaragua.
Speaking to the Catholic Herald, Miss Jagger, the founder and president of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, and a Catholic, urged the Church to condemn the regime of Daniel Ortega for its arrest and imprisonment of Catholic bishops, priests and laity.
She said the Socialist president of Nicaragua and Rosario Murillo, his vice president wife, was waging a “brutal war” against the Catholic Church because they saw it as the last remaining political opposition to his dictatorship.
