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by bcadmin | Oct 16, 2022 | anti-clericalism, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega, Refugees | 0 |
Lucia has known turmoil and unrest in her home country of Nicaragua from the time she was a toddler in the late 1970s when Daniel Ortega and the Sandinista party first came to power there.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 29, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega blasted Catholic leaders as a “gang of murderers,” in comments amping up persecution of the church and scorning Pope Francis’ call for dialogue in the Central American country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Police in Nicaragua have thwarted the celebration of feast day processions for patron saints in a city considered iconic for the ruling Sandinista regime, which continues increasing its repression of the Catholic Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 22, 2022 | Angelus, Associated Press, Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Cardinal Leopoldo José Brenes, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, Pope Francis, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Pope Francis voiced worry Sunday about the situation in Nicaragua, where police detained several Catholic clergy, including a bishop, critical of President Daniel Ortega’s administration.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 16, 2022 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Bishop Silvio Baez, Church in the Americas, human rights, lead, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
According to Bianca Jagger, a Nicaraguan human rights defendant, now that there are no opposition political leaders left to imprison, and most independent journalists have been muzzled, Daniel Ortega and his wife have declared a war on the Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 15, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Here’s a look at the fraught relationship between the Catholic Church and the Nicaraguan government amid a political standoff that’s now in its fifth year, with no end in sight.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Associated Press, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Hundreds of Nicaraguans attended a Mass under a heavy police presence Saturday after the government prohibited a religious procession in the capital amid tensions with the Roman Catholic Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Nicaragua’s police have prohibited a religious procession scheduled for Saturday in the capital, the latest sign of tensions between the government and the Roman Catholic Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Detained Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando José Álvarez appeared in a video Aug. 11, a week into his de facto house arrest by government authorities, saying that he and the companions who are with him have hearts full of forgiveness and love.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, Pope Francis, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
As the government’s pressure against the Catholic Church continues to grow in Nicaragua, so does the pressure for the Vatican to break its silence, with over 60 NGOs sending a letter to Pope Francis urging him to “not leave us alone.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 8, 2022 | Cardinal Gegorio Rosa Chavez, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, lead, News, Nicaragua, Pope Francis, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Pope Francis so far has not spoken out on Alvarez’s detention. However, sources with knowledge of the issue have told Crux the pontiff’s silence may be due to attempts, so far unsuccessful, to defend him behind the scenes.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 18, 2022 | anti-clericalism, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Catholics in Nicaragua are calling for the release of two priests detained over the past two months as a campaign of arbitrary arrests and church repression continues in the Central American country.
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