Nicaragua’s missionaries will stay despite martyrdom risk – Irish Jesuit

Nicaragua’s missionaries will stay despite martyrdom risk – Irish Jesuit A woman leaves the Jesuit-run Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua. The university was taken by President Daniel Ortega’s government.

The brutal persecution of the Church in Nicaragua will not stop missionaries striving to minister to the Faithful even if civil war and martyrdom are on the cards, an Irish Jesuit has insisted. Fr Kevin O’Higgins SJ, who spent decades in Latin America under a military dictatorship, said missionaries accept an “element of risk” in…

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