Human rights defender Bianca Jagger has called upon Catholic leaders around the world to speak out forcefully against the persecution of the Church in her native Nicaragua. Speaking to the Catholic Herald, 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 and wife, were waging a “brutal war” against the Catholic Church because they saw it as the last remaining political opposition to his dictatorship. Jagger said: “Of course what Ortega and Murillo want is to get rid of all the leaders of the Catholic Church, all the courageous and eloquent leaders.”
