On Jan. 16, the Ministry of the Interior published in the official government newspaper La Gaceta the agreement that ordered the cancellation of the legal personhood and registration of 16 nongovernmental organizations, 10 of which are Catholic and evangelical institutions. This group included the Consecrated Missionaries of the Most Holy Savior Foundation and the Missionaries of the Company of Mary Association (Montfort Missionaries).
Next, Molina continued, the dictatorship expelled Father David Pérez, also of the Consecrated Missionaries of the Most Holy Savior, who “was in charge of Immaculate Conception of Mary Parish in the William Fonseca neighborhood of the city of León.”
“With the cancellation of legal personhood, two houses belonging to the order of these religious people are in danger of confiscation,” Molina warned.
According to their website, the Consecrated Missionaries of the Most Holy Savior are “a public and clerical association of the faithful with a view to becoming an Institute of Consecrated Life,” who lead “a contemplative-missionary life.”
They are present in “the Diocese of Iztapalapa (Mexico City), the Diocese of Cancún-Chetumal (Quintana Roo state, Mexico), in the Diocese of Estelí (Nicaragua), and in the Diocese of León-Chinandega (Nicaragua).”
The abduction and expulsion of the three priests occurs less than a week after the dictatorship released from custody and deported to Rome two bishops, 15 priests, and two seminarians, including Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who was unjustly imprisoned for 500 days.