Pope used Nazi reference to condemn Nicaragua Government`s anti-religious leaders` actions

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – The Pope, like Gary Lineker, has used references to Nazi Germany to denounce a political act.

Gary Lineker’s infamous tweet likening the proposed illegal immigration bill to 1930s Germany, resulted in his suspension and chaos at the BBC.

The Associated Press reports that last week, the Pope was quoted as criticising the government in Nicaragua, where religious leaders have been arrested or fled, for acting as “if it were a communist dictatorship in 1917 or a Hitlerian one in 1935”.

Nicaragua responded by suspending Vatican ties. The report quotes the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum saying the Holocaust should not be exploited for opportunistic purposes.