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In recent years the Catholic Church has experienced persecution at the hands of the Government, led by Daniel Ortega. As of November 2022, 11 Catholic priests remained in custody, most of which for political offences. Rolando Alvarez, Bishop of Manuaga and a prominent critic of Ortega, was arrested in 2023, and then exiled in January 2024.
Like him, most exiles interviewed for this story spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution against their families or communities in Nicaragua.
The enforcement actions against Nicaragua's Catholic church, including broad surveillance of priests, intensified earlier this year, Reuters reported, after Pope Francis condemned the government ...
A second bishop was arrested by Nicaraguan authorities on Thursday, two sources told CNN, amid a far-reaching crackdown on opposition figures and the Catholic Church by the government of President ...
In 2023, the Holy See closed its embassy in Nicaragua due to Ortega's government formally suspending relations. [13] In 15 September 2023, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights urged Ortega's government to end the continuous persecution against the Catholic Church after concerns of the treatment of priests were raised. [14]
The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a church near the Nicaraguan capital Managua delivered a Sunday sermon in May that included a prayer "for our priests." Nicaraguan ...
It is believed that government forces did this because he "frequently lambastes the violation of human rights, religious persecution and abuses of power" by the Ortega government. [8] Álvarez's house arrest was confirmed on 19 August. [9] [10] Pope Francis expressed concern over restrictions on religious freedom in Nicaragua later that month. [11]
Nicaragua's Catholic bishops conference did not immediately respond to a request for comment. An exiled Nicaraguan researcher who publishes records of what she describes as the persecution of the ...