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Matagalpa, an indigenous name meaning “let’s go where the rocks are,” was one of the indigenous settlements discovered by the Spanish in 1542, while they were trying to find the passage to the North ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa: Nicaraguan Dictatorship Confiscates Seminary in Matagalpa
In addition to the seminary, the regime also confiscated on Jan. 16 the La Cartuja Pastoral Center of the Diocese of Matagalpa. Seminarians at St. Aloysius Gonzaga in 2022. (photo: Credit: Courtesy of ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa: In Nicaragua, Ortega shuts down Matagalpa’s Caritas
Bishop Silvio Baez, auxiliary bishop of Managua, Nicaragua, waves to parishioners as he enters to perform Mass at St. Agatha Catholic Church, which has become the spiritual home of the growing ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa: Nicaragua calls Vatican 'depraved' for keeping Bishop Álvarez as head of two dioceses from afar
Nicaragua's government issued a statement attacking the Vatican as "depraved" following interviews in which exiled Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa reaffirmed the pope's desire for him to continue ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa: Dictatorship in Nicaragua Arrests Two More Priests and Two Laywomen
Following last week’s exile of seven priests to Rome, the Nicaraguan dictatorship has arrested two more priests and two laywomen in Estelí and Matagalpa, both dioceses officially led by Bishop Rolando ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa: Tale of Two Cities: Estelí and Matagalpa
The northern interior of Nicaragua is best known for its cooler climate and seemingly endless coffee and tobacco fields, which spiral increasingly upwards as they approach the mountainous highlands ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa: Climate change is devastating Central American coffee farms – and spurring migration
Harvest season had just begun in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, and the coffee plants stood ripe and ready. But there was no one working at many of the farms. Joaquín Solórzano, a coffee farmer and advocate ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa: In Nicaragua, police conduct raid and arrest bishop, other priests
MEXICO CITY — Nicaraguan police on Friday raided the residence of a Roman Catholic bishop who is an outspoken critic of President Daniel Ortega’s government, apparently detaining the senior clergyman ...