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Bishop Álvarez chosen by Pope Francis to participate in Synod on Synodality

September 17, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matalgalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Archdiocese of Managua

Madrid, Spain, Sep 17, 2024 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Exiled Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez is slated to be among the participants in the second and last session of th… […]

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Nicaragua releases 135 political, religious prisoners; many still remain in custody

September 5, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The freed prisoners included Catholic laypeople, 13 individuals associated with the Texas-based evangelical group Mountain Gateway, and human rights activists. / Credit: ADF International/Mountain Gateway Order, Inc.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, … […]

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Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua deports group of foreign priests and nuns

September 4, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

"What the dictatorship is doing is suffocating, more and more, the Catholic Church," says lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina. / Credit: Martha Calderón/EWTN Vatican

Lima Newsroom, Sep 4, 2024 / 17:16 pm (CNA).
Lawyer and res… […]

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Nicaraguan dictatorship shuts down more nonprofit Catholic organizations, evangelical churches

August 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The Metropolitan Cathedral Santiago Apóstol and the National Palace in Managua, Nicaragua / Credit: Martin Thurnherr, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Lima Newsroom, Aug 30, 2024 / 15:53… […]

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Dictatorship in Nicaragua eliminates priests’ retirement fund

August 28, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

The Insurance Fund for Priests Association is one of the 1,500 nongovernmental organizations whose legal status was canceled this month by the dictatorship. / Credit: Alexey Gotovskiy/EWTN Vatican

Lima Newsroom, Aug 28, 2024 / 16:23 pm (CNA).
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Pope Francis prays for people of Nicaragua: ‘Renew your hope in Jesus’

August 25, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

“To the beloved people of Nicaragua: I encourage you to renew your hope in Jesus. Remember that the Holy Spirit always guides history toward higher designs,” Pope Francis said at the end of this Angelus address on Aug. 25. / Credit: Vatican Medi… […]

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Nicaraguan dictatorship eliminates tax exemptions for Catholic and Evangelical churches

August 23, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Riderfoot/Shutterstock.

Lima Newsroom, Aug 23, 2024 / 16:15 pm (CNA).
One day after canceling the legal status of 1,500 NGOs in Nicaragua, the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario … […]

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870 attacks against the Catholic Church reported in Nicaragua since 2018

August 16, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Rolando Álvarez. / Credit: Middle Diocese – TV Merced

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 16, 2024 / 17:42 pm (CNA).
Two new reports are out detailing human rights violations in Nicaragua, one focusing on religious freedom and the other citing 870 att… […]

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Experts explain why dictatorship in Nicaragua abducts and exiles priests

August 13, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

Emilio Blasco, director of the Center for Global Affairs at the University of Navarra in Spain, says Daniel Ortega persecutes the Catholic Church because “he perceives it as a stronghold of opposition, of people who think for themselves and that… […]

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Dictatorship in Nicaragua arrests two more priests and two laywomen

August 12, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Denis Martínez-García, was arrested on his way to celebrate Mass in Matagalpa, pictured here. / Credit: AntoLa22, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 12, 2024 / 17:32 pm (CNA).
Following last week’s exile of seven p… […]

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