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BREAKING: Nicaragua’s dictatorship sentences Bishop Rolando Álvarez to 26 years in prison

February 10, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Bishop Rolando Álvarez. / Credit: Diocese of Matagalpa

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 10, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua sentenced on Friday, Feb. 10, the bishop of Matagalpa, Rolando Álvarez Lagos, to 26 years and… […]

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Why persecuted Nicaragua bishop turned down the chance to leave the country

February 10, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua (CC BY-SA 4.0)

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 10, 2023 / 14:45 pm (CNA).
Bishop Rolando Álvarez of the Diocese of Matagalpa refused to leave Nicaragua along with… […]

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BREAKING: Nicaragua deports more than 200 political prisoners to US, including Catholic priests

February 9, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Nicaraguan political prisoner Juan Sebastian Chamorro speaks to the press ouside a hotel in Herndon, Virginia, on Feb. 9, 2023, after he was released by the Nicaraguan government. / Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images

Washin… […]

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European bishops call for release of Nicaraguan bishop due to stand trial for conspiracy

February 8, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, during the indictment presented by the dictatorship of Nicaragua on Jan. 10, 2023. / Credit: Judiciary of Nicaragua

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 8, 2023 / 15:25 pm (CNA).
The president of the Commission … […]

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Dictatorship in Nicaragua sentences seven more clergy and laity to 10 years in prison

February 7, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

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CNA Newsroom, Feb 7, 2023 / 14:50 pm (CNA).
In a new attack on the Catholic Church, the Nicaraguan dictatorship led by President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, sentenced three priests, a … […]

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Prosecution accused of fabricating witnesses for trial of Nicaraguan bishop

January 23, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Bishop Rolando Álvarez. / Credit: Diocese of Matagalpa

CNA Newsroom, Jan 23, 2023 / 15:15 pm (CNA).
An exiled priest, Father Erick Díaz, and a human rights defender, attorney Yader Morazán, have charged that the dictatorship of President Daniel… […]

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Meet the priest the Nicaraguan dictatorship wants to put away for eight years

January 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Father Oscar Benavidez was found guilty of two crimes on Jan. 16, 2023. / YouTube EWTN Noticias

CNA Newsroom, Jan 21, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Father Oscar Benavidez was found guilty of two crimes at a Jan. 16 trial riddled with irregularities an… […]

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Blessed Sacrament desecrated in church in Nicaragua

January 18, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Unidentified individuals on Jan. 15, 2023, desecrated the Blessed Sacrament in Our Lady of the Abandoned Catholic Church in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. / Credit: Our Lady of the Abandoned Parish – San Rafael Sur

CNA Newsroom, Jan 18, 202… […]

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Nicaraguan priest found guilty, sentenced to eight years in prison for ‘conspiracy’

January 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Father Oscar Benavidez. / Credit: Parish of the Holy Spirit of Mulukukú, Nicaragua

CNA Newsroom, Jan 17, 2023 / 14:30 pm (CNA).
The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua has found a Catholic priest, imprisoned since August 2022, … […]

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Catholic bishop arrested by dictatorship in Nicaragua to be put on trial

January 10, 2023 Catholic News Agency 5

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua (on the left), during his hearing on Jan. 10, 2023. / Credit: Judiciary of Nicaragua

CNA Newsroom, Jan 10, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who has been held under house arrest in Nic… […]

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