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Bishop Rolando José Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, is pictured in Managua May 20, 2022.(Credit: Maynor Valenzuela/Reuters via CNS) NEW YORK – With the latest round of arrests of Catholic leaders in ...
News Nicaragua » Matagalpa » Government: Nicaragua bars ordination of new Catholic priests in several dioceses
Nicaragua’s government has prohibited the ordination of new Catholic priests and deacons in several dioceses, a move church leaders say intensifies pressure on religious communities in the country.
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: 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: 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 » Government: Ortega Regime Seizes Matagalpa Diocese Headquarters in Latest Attack on Nicaragua’s Catholic Church
The confiscation of the curia is widely seen as an extension of the Ortega regime’s vendetta against Bishop Rolando Álvarez, the exiled leader of the diocese. Arrested in 2022 after a two-week police ...
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: Priests have to check their schedules with the government
Martha Patricia Molina, a Nicaraguan criminal lawyer in exile, talks to Aleteia about the situation of increasing religious persecution and the Church’s resistance in Nicaragua. The recent exile of 19 ...
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: 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 ...