Nicaragua News » Matagalpa News Nicaragua » Matagalpa » Government: Miami prelate says Nicaragua’s dictatorship has gone ‘off the rails’
NEW YORK – With the latest round of arrests of Catholic leaders in Nicaragua and the continued imprisonment of Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami has said the ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa » Government: Nicaragua trying to silence the church
In Nicaragua, praying for national freedom can land you in jail. So can publicly supporting an imprisoned priest.
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa » Government: Jesuits urge Ortega to ‘stop the repression’ on one year anniversary of Nicaragua’s government seizing university
The Central American Province of the Society of Jesus acknowledged on Aug. 15 the anniversary of the loss of the Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua, “with deep pain and indignation, but ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa » Government: Nicaragua forces 1,500 church and civil society groups to close
Nicaragua has revoked the registration of 1,500 non-profit organizations, the latest in a years-long crackdown in the small Central American nation. The organizations, which include hundreds of ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa » Government: 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 » Government: Despite threats and government harassment, 11 Jesuits remain in Nicaragua
Those Jesuits who remain, he said, now face the “fundamental concern” of expulsion or detention if relations between the Society of Jesus and the government of former Sandinista comandante President ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa » Government: Nicaragua releases Bishop Rolando Álvarez and 18 clergy members from prison after negotiations with Vatican
Nicaragua's government announced on Sunday that negotiations with Vatican authorities secured the release of two Catholic bishops and 17 other clergy members who were incarcerated last year under the ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa » Government: Nicaragua expels Catholic Bishop Alvarez, priests amid crackdown
SAN JOSE, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Nicaragua said it expelled 19 clergymen to the Vatican on Sunday, including Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez, a prominent critic of President Daniel Ortega. Bishop Isidoro ...