It also reported the following [2}:
The apparent attack comes after tensions between some Catholics and supporters of President Daniel Ortega, who previously led the country for over a decade after the Sandinistas’ 1979 ouster of the Somoza dictatorship. Ortega has again been president of Nicaragua since 2007, and oversaw the abolition of presidential term limits in 2014.
Ortega’s government has accused many bishops and priests of siding with his opposition.
Backers of Ortega have led actions against some churches, including Managua’s cathedral when critics of Ortega took refuge there.
The link between religion and politics appears to be quite evident here, while other church burnings and others forms of desecration are not as apparent. Can it be concluded that mixing politics and religion is to blame?
There are many opinions published online rationalized that Christ was political by resorting to intellectual dishonesty. Those who love politics see everything through a political lens. Those who have a close relationship with Christ see a clear difference between God's Truth and man's words that are often tainted by self-promotion (greed), self-aggrandizement (vanity) and self-worship (pride).
[1] https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/firebomb-attack-damages-chapel-centuries-old-image-of-christ-at-managuas-cathedral-59193
[2] Ibid.
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