Mountain Gateway founder Jon Britton Hancock appeared on FNC’s “The Ingraham Angle” with Laura Ingraham on Friday, explaining how his nonprofit is being religiously persecuted in Nicaragua.
The nonprofit organization operates in Latin American countries and has been ministering in Nicaragua for over a decade. However, much of the work was halted after 11 pastors and two lawyers from the organization were arrested by the Nicaraguan government without any official information on the charges.
Britton said even he and two members of his family had arrest warrants, and he was told the charges involved money laundering and organized crime.
However, he told Ingraham that these accusations were false.
“They’re not based on anything,” Hancock said. “We haven’t seen any charging documents or anything. In reality, it’s a screen, I think, to hide the fact that they threw a bunch of our people in jail. Pastors.”
The arrests took place following a series of events in 2023 during which hundreds of thousands of people came to worship God.
“There is definitely growing pressure for religious persecution and human rights abuses,” Hancock added. “What brought our people to prison is religious persecution, and what keeps them in prison is human rights violations.”
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