The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his “co-president” and wife, Rosario Murillo, in Nicaragua has banned, for ...

At least the administration of the sacraments." The Catholic Church had become the last bastion of dissent in Nicaragua as ...

Nicaragua’s crackdown on the Catholic Church is worsening, exiles and human rights advocates say - Preparations for widely popular Lent and Holy Week processions are underway across Latin America – bu ...

Molina is the author of the report “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church,” which in its latest edition in December 2024 reported nearly 1,000 attacks by the dictatorship against the Catholic Church ...

Out of eight bishops and one cardinal in Nicaragua’s Catholic conference, four are in exile — along with more than 150 clergy and seminarians as well as nearly 100 nuns and religious sisters ...

FILE - A Western Democratic Movement activist holds a poster with a message that reads in Spanish; "Free the priests," and images of clergy imprisoned by the government of Daniel Ortega, including ...