(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 20 - The Italian Bishops Conference expresses solidarity with the Church of Nicaragua which is subjected to "severe persecutions" and launches an appeal so that "freedom of worship and opinion is guaranteed in the country, not only to the representatives of the Catholic Church, but to all citizens ".
This is what Cardinal President Matteo Zuppi writes in a message of closeness to Msgr.
Carlos Enrique Herrera Gutiérrez, president of the Bishops' Conference of Nicaragua.
On the arrest of the bishop of Matagalpa, Msgr.
Rolando JoséÁlvarez Lagos, Zuppi underlines: "It is a very serious act, which does not leave us insensitive and which induces us to keep our attention high".
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