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Preparations for popular, often daylong Lent and Holy Week processions are underway across Latin America — but not in Nicaragua. They’ve been largely banned for a second year, one of many concerns for ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Religion: Deteriorating Religious Freedom Conditions in Nicaragua
Christopher Hernandez-Roy testified before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Nicaragua’s repressive governance framework and the authorities’ severe crackdown against ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Religion: Nicaragua’s exiled clergy and faithful in Miami keep up struggle for human rights at Mass
MIAMI (AP) — For Nicaguaran worshippers who have fled or been exiled, the Sunday afternoon Mass is a means of pushing back against the regime’s violent suppression of critics. When the Rev. Silvio ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Religion: Insight: Catholic clergy report surveillance, beatings amid Nicaragua's crackdown
MEXICO CITY, July 7 (Reuters) - The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a church near the Nicaraguan capital Managua delivered a Sunday sermon in May that included a prayer "for ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Religion: Nicaragua released imprisoned priests, but repression is unlikely to relent – and the Catholic Church remains a target
(The Conversation) — Bad news has been the norm for Catholics in Nicaragua, where clergy and church groups have been frequent targets of a wide-ranging crackdown for years. But on Jan. 14, 2024, they ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Religion: Amid Catholic Crackdown, Nicaragua Closes 250 Evangelical Ministries
Mountain Gateway became the latest Christian ministry to run afoul of the Ortega regime. When Hurricanes Hilary and Idalia flooded Nicaragua’s coast last August and September, evangelical ministries ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Religion: Nicaragua forces the closure of more than 25 Catholic religious orders and lay groups
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, greet supporters during the opening ceremony of a highway overpass in Managua March 21, 2019. (OSV News photo/Oswaldo ...
News Nicaragua » Managua » Religion: What Is Happening In Nicaragua And Why We Should Care?
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. Feb 17, 2024, 11:12am EST This article is more than 2 years old.