I would like to make an appeal to all people of good will to stand in support of the oppressed people of Nicaragua, the land of my birth, where the Catholic Church is being persecuted.

It is my hope that the Pope and Catholic leaders will denounce the dictator Daniel Ortega and his accomplice and wife Rosario Murillo for their merciless and relentless persecution of the Catholic Church. I have watched with great concern the escalation of the regime’s unholy war against the church, bishops, priests, seminarians, members of religious orders and the faithful.