Exiled Nicaraguan prelate challenges Pope Francis on bishop’s arrest
An exiled Nicaraguan bishop urged Sunday for the freedom of his colleague, imprisoned by the regime of Daniel Ortega.
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by 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 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 | 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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 9, 2021 | Bishop Silvio Baez, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Celebrating the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Nicaraguan Bishop Silvio Baez, auxiliary bishop of Managua, exhorted the faithful to ask the Virgin for help and clemency for the reconstruction of the country, and to continue working for justice.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 9, 2021 | Bishop Silvio Baez, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
Celebrating the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Nicaraguan Bishop Silvio Baez, auxiliary bishop of Managua, exhorted the faithful to ask the Virgin for help and clemency for the reconstruction of the country, and to continue working for justice.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 8, 2021 | Bishop Silvio Baez, Church in the Americas, Daniel Ortega, lead, News, Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo | 0 |
With all the opposition leaders jailed and their parties banned, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo won the Nicaraguan presidential elections held on Sunday. Only one Catholic bishop of the country’s 13 voted.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Bishop Silvio Baez, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, Daniel Ortega, Elections, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
Though Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has secured a win the Nov. 7 presidential elections, the Catholic bishops and priests continue sounding the voice of alarm, even though the police set up a booth across the house of the lone cardinal.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Bishop Silvio Baez, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, Daniel Ortega, Elections, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
Though Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has secured a win the Nov. 7 presidential elections, the Catholic bishops and priests continue sounding the voice of alarm, even though the police set up a booth across the house of the lone cardinal.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 6, 2021 | Bishop Silvio Baez, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
A Catholic bishop has condemned Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s crackdown on opposition leaders after the authoritarian leader arrested several figures that played a role in the 2018 protests that shook his regime.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 8, 2021 | Bishop Silvio Baez, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
As the United States debates sanctions against Nicaragua for the imprisonment of an opposition leader by Daniel Ortega, two of the countries leading Catholic bishops are demanding the regime cease the “exclusion of the adversary.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 27, 2021 | Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Rolando Alvarez, Bishop Silvio Baez, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
In their homilies this weekend, both Bishop Silvio Baez, auxiliary of Managua, and Bishop Rolando Alvarez of Matagalpa had a similar message addressed to Nicaragua’s political class.
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