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Nicaraguan dictatorship places Sandinista flags in front of cathedral of imprisoned bishop

June 27, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

The flags of the Sandinista dictatorship in front of the Matagalpa Cathedral. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Martha Patricia Molina

ACI Prensa Staff, Jun 27, 2023 / 16:20 pm (CNA).
The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice Pre… […]

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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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Guatemalan cardinal responds to Daniel Ortega’s attack on the Church

October 4, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua / Public Domain

Denver Newsroom, Oct 4, 2022 / 14:16 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri of Huehuetenango gave a spirited response to Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega, who a few days ago verba… […]

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Spanish bishops stand in solidarity with Church in Nicaragua, persecuted by Ortega government

August 18, 2022 Catholic News Agency 4

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa walks with other pilgrims to the Shrine of the Divine Child in July 2022. / Credit: Manuel Obando and Diocese Media

Madrid, Spain, Aug 18, 2022 / 11:29 am (CNA).
At least two Spanish archdioceses have express… […]

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Bianca Jagger implores Pope Francis to aid persecuted Catholic Church in Nicaragua

August 16, 2022 Catholic News Agency 5

Daniel Ortega celebrates his re-inauguration as president of Nicaragua, Jan. 10, 2012. / Cancilleria del Ecuador via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 16, 2022 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
Human rights activist Bianca Jagger is raising… […]

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The history behind the persecution of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua

August 12, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

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

Denver Newsroom, Aug 12, 2022 / 04:00 am (CNA).
A bishop under house arrest, priests harassed by the police, the M… […]

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Central American bishops support Nicaraguan clergy in face of persecution

May 24, 2022 Catholic News Agency 0

Daniel Ortega celebrates his re-inauguration as president of Nicaragua, Jan. 10, 2012. / Cancilleria del Ecuador via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Lima, Peru, May 24, 2022 / 15:03 pm (CNA).
The bishops’ conferences of Costa Rica and Panama expressed t… […]

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Church asks people to vote their conscience in Nicaraguan general election

October 25, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

Protests in Granada, Nicaragua, April 29, 2018. / Riderfoot/Shutterstock.

Managua, Nicaragua, Oct 25, 2021 / 11:11 am (CNA).
The Nicaraguan bishops’ conference called Thursday on citizens to act freely and to vote according to their conscience a… […]

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