Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The fear of the ongoing crackdown by President Daniel Ortega – on the Catholic Church in particular but not sparing evangelicals – has become so pervasive that it
An exiled Nicaraguan researcher who publishes records of what she describes as the persecution of the Catholic Church under Ortega said sending the priests to Rome was a "forced removal."
In March of 2023, Nicaragua officially severed ties with the Holy See. [13] In August 2023, the Nicaraguan government banned the Jesuits and seized their assets. [14] According to Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, at least 46 priests were under arrest at some point in Nicaragua in 2023. Many of these priests ended up being exiled at ...
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]
Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Conference of Bishops also called for an end to the police violence and criticized unilateral reforms; [40] Pope Francis subsequently added his call for peace in the country. [41] Crowds of protesters in Managua on 24 April 2018
Hundreds of thousands participated in marches for peace and justice organized on 28 April by the Catholic churches in Nicaragua in the cities of Managua, Matagalpa and León. [ 5 ] [ 53 ] At the events, bishops, feminists, members of the LGBT community, relatives of those killed in the repression and thousands of peasants gathered in unity to ...
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 ...