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United Nations equates Sandinista Nicaragua with Nazism

March 10, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega speaks to supporters during a rally in Managua, on Sept. 5, 2018. / Inti Ocon/AFP via Getty Images)

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Mar 10, 2023 / 04:52 am (CNA).
Amid ongoing reports of oppression of the Catholic … […]

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Dictatorship in Nicaragua dissolves John Paul II Catholic University

March 9, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega / Taiwan Presidential Office (CC BY 2.0)

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 9, 2023 / 11:01 am (CNA).
In a new blow to the Church in Nicaragua, the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega has ordered the legal status of several inst… […]

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UN calls on Nicaragua to free Bishop Álvarez and other political prisoners

March 7, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of the Diocese of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Diocese of Matagalpa

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 7, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called on the Nicaragu… […]

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Aid to the Church in Need ‘greatly concerned’ about Nicaraguan bishop sentenced to prison

March 3, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: ACN

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 3, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) expressed its concern for the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua … […]

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Order of cloistered nuns leaves Nicaragua after 22 years

March 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

The Trappist Sisters of Nicaragua announced Feb. 27, 2023, that they are leaving Nicaragua for Panama. / Credit: Facebook Trappist Sisters of Nicaragua

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 1, 2023 / 15:30 pm (CNA).
The Trappist Sisters of Nicaragua, whose rel… […]

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Nicaraguan bishop responds to insults by Daniel Ortega, calling him ‘corrupt and criminal’

February 24, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. / Credit: Flickr Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador (CC BY-SA 2.0)

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 24, 2023 / 11:37 am (CNA).
Silvio Báez, the exiled auxiliary bishop of Managua living in the United States, respond… […]

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Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua expels Italian priest from the country

February 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Father Cosimo Damiano Muratori. / Credit: Sanctuary Of The Servant Of God Odorico D Andrea

CNA Newsroom, Feb 17, 2023 / 12:30 pm (CNA).
The Nicaraguan dictatorship led by President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has… […]

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Archdiocese of Miami offers to take in priests exiled from Nicaragua

February 15, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

St. Mary’s Cathedral in Miami. / Credit: Farragutful – Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

CNA Newsroom, Feb 15, 2023 / 15:45 pm (CNA).
The archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, announced that his archdiocese will receive with open arms the priests … […]

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Imprisoned Nicaraguan bishop deserves US support, religious freedom advocates say

February 14, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, is monitored by police in early August 2022. / Photo credit: Diocese of Matagalpa

Denver, Colo., Feb 14, 2023 / 16:52 pm (CNA).
The U.S. government must seek the release of Nicaragua’s Bishop Rola… […]

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Pope Francis asks Virgin Mary to intercede for Nicaragua after bishop sentenced to 26 years in prison

February 12, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Francis (left); Bishop Rolando Álvarez (right) / Vatican Media; Diocese of Matagalpa

Vatican City, Feb 12, 2023 / 08:20 am (CNA).
Pope Francis entrusted Nicaragua to the intercession of the Immaculate Virgin Mary on Sunday after Bishop Rol… […]

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