Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has stepped up his persecution of the Catholic Church by arresting a 64-year-old chronically-ill priest and imprisoning him practically naked.
Police kicked in the doors of a presbytery of a church in Managua, the capital of the central American country, and dragged out Fr Enrique Martínez Gamboa.
As they bundled the priest into a waiting van, he was heard to shout: “They are taking me by force!” and: “Viva el Cristo Rey (long live Christ the King)!”
No warrant was produced and the boot-prints of the police were visible on the broken doors of the property after the raid.
