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Here’s where Christians continued to face persecution in 2023

December 30, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

A screen grab from a video shared with ACI Africa that shows the parish house at St. Raphael Fadan Kamantan Catholic Church of the Diocese of Kafanchan in flames Sept. 7, 2023. / Credit: ACI Africa

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 30, 2023 / 09:5… […]

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Four priests arrested in 2 days by Nicaraguan dictatorship

December 29, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Cathedral of Managua, Nicaragua. / Credit: Wikimedia Commons

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 29, 2023 / 17:00 pm (CNA).
President Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship in Nicaragua has arrested three more priests: Monsignor Carlos Avilés, vicar general of the Arc… […]

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Second bishop detained by the dictatorship in Nicaragua

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Mnsgr. Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega is bishop of the Diocese of Siuna, Nicaragua. / Credit: Diocese of Siuna

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 17:15 pm (CNA).
The Nicaraguan police arrested on Dec. 20 the bishop of Siuna, Isidoro del Carmen Mo… […]

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Witnesses testify to torture by Nicaraguan dictatorship at hearing on imprisoned Catholic bishop 

December 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Alliance Defending Freedom International

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 1, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA).
At a congressional hearing on Thursday, members of Congress and human rights activists u… […]

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Nicaraguan dictatorship releases new photos, video of imprisoned Bishop Álvarez

November 30, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Some photographs of Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez disseminated by the dictatorship of Nicaragua in November 2023. / Credit: Ministry of the Interior of Nicaragua

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 30, 2023 / 09:30 am (CNA).
In response to demands for pr… […]

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Nicaraguan human rights advocate asks British Parliament to help release Bishop Álvarez

November 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 17, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
The president of the Nicaragua Freedom Foundation and former Nicaraguan presidential candidate Félix Maradiaga re… […]

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Nicaraguan bishop: Dictators say they love God while they believe they are gods

November 2, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 1, 2023 / 18:30 pm The auxiliary bishop of Managua, Nicaragua, Silvio Báez, who has been living in exile in the U.S. for several years, said in his Sunday Mass homily […]

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Jesuits’ superior general condemns seizure of university by Nicaragua dictatorship

August 18, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

The economic sciences building of the Central American University (UCA) in Nicaragua. / Credit: Courtesy of the Jesuits Central America

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 18, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
The superior general of the Jesuits, Father Arturo Sosa, co… […]

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Nicaraguan lawyer: 65 women religious have been expelled from the country since 2022

July 31, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Missionaries of Charity leave Nicaragua on July 6, 2022. / Credit: P. Sunil Kumar Adugula

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 31, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
Researcher and lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, a member of the editorial board of the newspaper La Prensa,… […]

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Honduran bishop: Although Bishop Álvarez is in prison, he won’t be silent

July 26, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

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

ACI Prensa Staff, Jul 26, 2023 / 16:00 pm (CNA).
Bishop José Antonio Canales of the Diocese of Danlí in Honduras said in an interview with the Nicaraguan media Confidencial Digital tha… […]

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