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January 18, 2023
An auxiliary bishop who fled his native Nicaragua after facing down death threats for criticizing the country’s totalitarian government was at St. Brigid
January 18, 2023
BUSHWICK, N.Y. (OSV News) -- An auxiliary bishop who fled his native Nicaragua after facing down death threats for criticizing the country’s totalitarian government was at St. Brigid Church in Bushwick in early January, helping the largely Latino community there celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. Auxiliary Bishop Silvio José Báez, a Discalced Carmelite, serves the Archdiocese of Managua in Nicaragua but now lives in exile in Miami after leaving his homeland in 2019 at the request of Pope