Tag: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega lashes out at Catholic leaders: ‘Who elected...
MEXICO CITY-- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega blasted Catholic leaders as a "gang of murderers," in comments amping up persecution of the church and scorning...