Tag: Nicaragua
Nicaraguan regime continues exercising control over religious activities during Holy Week:...
CUERNAVACA, Mexico -- Catholics turned out in large numbers to celebrate Holy Week in Nicaragua. But the ruling Sandinista regime prohibited public exhibitions of...
Lifelong human-rights advocate Bianca Jagger calls Nicaragua’s purge of Catholic clergy...
LIVERPOOL, England -- Human rights defender Bianca Jagger has accused the Nicaraguan dictatorship of creating a spiritual vacuum in the country by its purge...
Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez released and exiled after spending over 500...
MEXICO CITY-- Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa has been released from prison and sent into exile along with 18 imprisoned churchmen as the Nicaraguan...
Lawmakers call for release of Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez at congressional...
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers and exiled Nicaraguan nationals at a congressional hearing Nov. 30 called for the release of Bishop Rolando Álvarez, a Catholic prelate...
Nicaragua expels 12 priests to Rome; Imprisoned Bishop Rolando Álvarez of...
BUENOS AIRES -- Nicaragua has expelled a dozen priests held as political prisoners as the increasingly tyrannical regime continues sending clergy into exile and...
Nicaraguan regime makes it illegal for Jesuits to operate in Central...
MEXICO CITY -- The Nicaraguan regime has extinguished the Jesuits' legal status and ordered the expropriation of its assets, effectively making it illegal for...
Mission of the Sisters Poor of Jesus Christ comes to an...
A group of Brazilian missionaries announced July 3 they have left their post in Nicaragua, becoming the latest community of women religious to leave...
Pope Francis ‘pained’ by jail sentence for Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez...
VATICAN CITY -- Just days after Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, was sentenced to 26 years in prison, Pope Francis expressed concern over...
Political prisoners released by Nicaragua, including several priests, offered lodging by...
MIAMI -- Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski spoke to the Florida Catholic Feb. 11 about the expected arrival in Miami of some of the political...
Bishop Rolando Álvarez awaits trial after six churchmen and a diocesan...
MEXICO CITY-- Six churchmen and a diocesan communicator were sentenced to 10 years in prison on conspiracy charges by a Nicaraguan court as the...