Abandoned at the border: Priest tells how he was expelled from Nicaragua during Holy Week
Alarcón recounted that the police came to the rectory in the morning and warned him that he had to “remember the prescriptions” for Holy Week given by the regime.
Father Donaciano Alarcón, a Claretian missionary expelled from Nicaragua by the dictatorship, described how the authorities leveled unfounded accusations against him, took him to the border with Honduras, and abandoned him to his fate.
“They put me in a patrol car with
two police officers and took me to the border. They made me cross and
told me that I was now outside of the country and I couldn’t return
anymore,” Alarcón told Radio Hogar of the Archdiocese of Panama. ---More...
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