ROME – A week after Nicaragua’s government confiscated a prestigious Jesuit-run university, it has officially expelled the Society of Jesus from the country entirely and ruled that all of the order’s property and assets be seized.
Nicaragua’s government declared Pope Francis’s Jesuit order illegal on Wednesday and ordered that all of its property and assets be confiscated on grounds that the order had failed to comply with tax laws.
In an August 23 statement, the Jesuit Province of Central America, which is based in San Salvador and oversees the order’s activities in Nicaragua, issued a statement titled, “The Unjust Aggression against the Jesuits in a Context of Total Defenselessness and the Terrorization of the Nicaraguan Population.”
