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by 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 29, 2022 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Bishop Silvio Jose Baez, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
Nine days after the arbitrary house arrest of a bishop in Nicaragua, lone Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes urged the people on Sunday to trust “fully in the Lord, not in strategies.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | Archbishop Thomas Wenski, Bishop Jose Baez, Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Church in the Americas, Church in the US, lead, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
Miami’s archbishop said Mass Monday for the freedom of a Nicaraguan bishop arbitrarily arrested last Friday by the regime of Daniel Ortega, following two weeks of detention in the curia.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 22, 2022 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Bishop Silvio Baez, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, Pope Francis | 0 |
An exiled Nicaraguan bishop urged Sunday for the freedom of his colleague, imprisoned by the regime of Daniel Ortega.
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 20, 2022 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, Pope Francis | 0 |
As the news became public of the government of Nicaragua’s unlawful imprisonment of Bishop Rolando Alvarez in the wee hours of Friday, bishops conferences from around the world, governments and human rights activists spoke in his defense.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
According to local reports, after two weeks of arbitrary detention in the curia house, Bishop Rolando Alvarez, of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, was taken by the police between around 3AM, in a convoy of at least eight patrol cars.
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 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, Daniel Ortega, lead, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
ROME – On Saturday, Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes blessed several images of Our Lady of Fatima that would go to each diocese. On Sunday, the government banned the priest from the diocese of Matagalpa, where the local bishop is under virtual house arrest, from receiving the image. Father Erick Diaz, […]
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 7, 2022 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
As a Nicaraguan bishop continues under siege in the curia house, banned from leaving by security forces acting on the order of President Daniel Ortega, the local bishops speak up, expressing their support.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 30, 2022 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Bishop Silvio Baez, Church in the Americas, Daniel Ortega, lead, Missionaries of Charity, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega expelled the Missionaries of Charity, the religious order founded by Mother Teresa of Kolkata.
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