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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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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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Nicaragua dictatorship sentences 11 Christian leaders to prison, fines them $880 million

April 8, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Eleven Christian leaders were sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $880 million on March 19, 2024, by the dictatorship in Nicaragua. / Credit: Credit: ADF International / Mountain Gateway Order, Inc.

ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 8, 2024 / 11:30 am (… […]

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Dictatorship in Nicaragua uses confiscated nuns’ home as migration office

February 7, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

The Sisters of the Fraternity of the Poor Ones of Jesus Christ / Credit: Facebook Fraternidade O Caminho

ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 7, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
Researcher and lawyer Martha Patricia Molina has reported that the dictatorship of Daniel O… […]

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Despite persecution, ‘the Church is still alive in Nicaragua,’ priest says

January 30, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Daniel Ortega. / Credit: Harold Escalona / Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 30, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
Despite being persecuted by Daniel Ortega’s regime for years, “the Church is still alive in Nicaragua,” a priest from the country told ACI … […]

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Dictatorship in Nicaragua expels three priests; exiled bishop meets with Pope Francis

January 22, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

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ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 22, 2024 / 18:30 pm (CNA).
Researcher Martha Patricia Molina reported that the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Mu… […]

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Dictatorship in Nicaragua cancels legal personhood of 10 Catholic and evangelical NGOs

January 19, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Daniel Ortega. / Credit: Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 19, 2024 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
In a new attack against the Catholic Church and other Christians in Nicaragua, the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosar… […]

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Hundreds pack Los Angeles church as exiled bishop, priest speak against Nicaragua regime

January 14, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Báez, at right in the background, and Father Edwing Román, foreground center, both of the Archdiocese of Managua in Nicaragua, process into St. Vincent de Paul Church in Exposition Park in Los Angeles for Mass on Jan. 6, … […]

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Ordination of 9 new priests represents hope for Church in Nicaragua

January 9, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua, on Jan. 6, 2024, ordained nine new priests in the midst of one of the worst waves of persecution against the Catholic Church in the country. / Credit: Archdiocese of Managua

ACI Pr… […]

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