Nicaragua News News Nicaragua » Religion: Watchdog Calls Nicaragua’s Religious Freedom Record ‘Abysmal,’ Says Lenders Enable Dictatorship
WASHINGTON — Nicaragua’s dictatorship will continue to persecute religious groups unless international financial institutions stop financing the regime of President Daniel Ortega, the chairman of the ...
News Nicaragua » Religion: Nicaragua unleashes a new religious persecution
In 1961, the Cuban dictatorship expelled 136 priests, closed the Catholic University of Villanueva and confiscated 350 catholic schools. Sixty years later, in Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega and his wife ...
News Nicaragua » Religion: Nicaragua’s Religious Persecution Requires International Action | Opinion
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As the Ortega regime tightens its repressive grip on Nicaragua, ...
News Nicaragua » Religion: Nicaragua's Regime Wages War on Religious Freedom
Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to the International Christian Concern's (ICC) Global Religious Persecution Index. The regime's ...
News Nicaragua » Religion: 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 » Religion: Cuba, Nicaragua can no longer whitewash their religious freedom violations
For authoritarian states around the globe, the United Nations has sadly long served as a place where they can whitewash or deflect the world’s attention from their human rights abuses. We see this in ...
News Nicaragua » Religion: Nicaragua’s crackdown on the Catholic Church is worsening, exiles and human rights advocates say
FILE - A Western Democratic Movement activist holds a poster with a message that reads in Spanish; "Free the priests," and images of clergy imprisoned by the government of Daniel Ortega, including ...
News Nicaragua » Religion: Nicaragua Releases 135 Political, Religious Prisoners; Many Still Remain in Custody
Nicaragua Releases 135 Political, Religious Prisoners; Many Still Remain in Custody Nicaraguan authorities released 135 political and religious prisoners following international pressure, but many ...
News Nicaragua » Religion: Nicaragua extinguishes legal status for religious orders, evangelical congregations
The Nicaraguan government has extinguished the legal status of more than 25 Catholic organizations, including religious orders such as the Franciscans, Carmelites and Augustinians, another diocesan ...