Nicaragua is 50% Roman Catholic and 33% evangelical Protestant. Many Catholics and evangelicals are being targeted by the regime of Marxist strongman Daniel Ortega as “coup plotters” and “enemies of the regime.”

“Nicaragua orders religious sisters to leave country by end of December,” La Croix International, December 12, 2024:

Nicaragua’s government issued an ultimatum to the country’s remaining religious sisters, ordering them to leave by December amid the ongoing persecution of the Catholic Church, according to a lawyer and researcher specializing in corruption and the rule of law in the Central American nation.

“You have until December to leave the country,” is what the nuns were told, according to Nicaraguan lawyer Martha Patricia Molina from her exile in Texas. Molina documented the attacks on the Catholic Church in her report “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church?” The report stated that attacks include “hostilities, persecution, sieges, desecration, destruction, robbery, expulsions, and confiscations” perpetrated by President Daniel Ortega and outlines a meticulous study of each hostile action from April 2018 to 2023.

“The nuns have already been banned from working in non-profit organizations, now all their property is being confiscated, and most of them have already left Nicaragua,” said Molina, explaining that many sisters will now seek refuge in Latin American nations where their congregations already work.

Targeting nuns has long been a modus operandi of the Ortega regime in its persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, where Catholics make up for 58.5 percent of the 6.5 million inhabitants. Earlier, the Ortega regime had expelled the Missionaries of Charity – the congregation Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta founded – accusing the nuns who work for the poorest of the poor in the country since 1988 of “money laundering, financing of terrorism and financing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”…