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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 | Oct 11, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Central America, Church in the Americas, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Hurricane, Mexico, News, Nicaragua | 0 |
Authorities in Central America feared the number of dead would increase after the weather system known as Julia left much of the region buried in mud or covered in floods in early October.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Catholic news, Church in Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, General, News, Nicaragua, Religious persecution, Rosario Murillo | 0 |
Denver Newsroom, Oct 3, 2022 / 17:00 pm Father Guillermo Blandón, who was prohibited by the Nicaraguan dictatorship led by President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, from returning to the country, […]
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 | Sep 3, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Americas, News, Nicaragua, Rape | 0 |
A judge in Nicaragua sentenced a Roman Catholic priest to 49 years in prison Friday for the rape of a 14-year-old girl.
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 24, 2022 | Bishop Borys Gudziak, Consistory, lead, News, News Analysis, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Papal conclave, papal resignation, Ukraine | 0 |
As much as papal politics may fascinate pundits and church affairs junkies, there’s a broad swath of the global Catholic population for whom they’re likely to seem irrelevant at best, and maybe even willfully oblivious to reality.
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.
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