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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.
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
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 ...
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 ...
Nicaragua's Foreign Ministry referred to the highest Catholic institution as the "depraved, pedophile Vatican State," saying it "allies with forces of darkness, barbarism, genocide and evil ...
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]
Several Catholic media outlets were shuttered by the Government, and police harassment of Catholics and clergy was widespread, [212] with Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) considering Nicaragua the country of most concern regarding persecution of the Church in all of Latin America in 2022. [213]
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 ...