Pope Issues Plea for Nicaragua Peace
Pope John Paul II appealed Friday for reconciliation in Nicaragua, where the last remnants of Contra rebels have been fighting with the army as the country struggles to end decades of guerrilla warfare.
The pontiff asked that Nicaraguans work to “consolidate the democratic process and bring about true conditions of peace and justice, which the people of Nicaragua aspire to and have a right to.”
An estimated 200 rebels, the last remnants of the U.S.-backed Contra army that battled the leftist Sandinista government for the 1980s, have recently agreed to peace talks.
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