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by 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 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 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 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 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 | Aug 2, 2022 | Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
Nicaragua’s bishops conference on Sunday marked the second anniversary of the attack against the image of the Blood of Christ, a historic crucifix that was burned after an unknown person threw an incendiary device in the Cathedral of Managua.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 18, 2022 | Archbishop Celestino Aos, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Cardinal Pedro Barreto, Chile, Chile bishops, Church in Chile, Church in the Americas, Latin America, lead, News, Nicaragua, Peru, President Daniel Ortega | 0 |
It is politically convoluted times for most of Latin America, the Holy Week messages from several bishops centered on social cohesion, criticism of the government, and a call for citizens to think not only of themselves but of the good of their country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 11, 2022 | Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, Daniel Ortega, lead, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
Days after Nicaragua’s vice president accused him of blessing the antigovernmental demonstrations of 2018 and warning that she would neither forgive nor forget, the country’s top cardinal spoke of forgiveness while warning against temporal power.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 23, 2021 | Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, Daniel Ortega, lead, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
After almost four months away from the public eye, Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes celebrated Sunday’s Mass in his diocese’s cathedral Church. He had been hospitalized with COVID-19.
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 | Aug 31, 2021 | Argentina, Cardinal Jorge Urosa, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, Church in the Americas, lead, News, Nicaragua, Venezuela | 0 |
ROME – Pope Francis’ former cathedral in Argentina was vandalized over the weekend, two Latin American cardinals are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 and a bishop in Venezuela has clashed with military forces who blocked humanitarian aid from reaching a severely flooded region. Never in shortage of news, here’s a round-up […]
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