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In this Sept. 5, 2018 file photo, Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua. (Credit: Alfredo Zuniga/AP.)

Radical changes to Nicaraguan Constitution are a blow to Catholic Church

Nov 29
Eduardo Campos Lima

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. (Credit: Adalberto Roque/Associated Press.)

Critics charge Nicaragua’s Ortega aims to ‘financially suffocate’ the Church

Aug 26
Eduardo Campos Lima

Bishop Silvio Baez, auxiliary bishop of Managua, Nicaragua, waves to parishioners as he enters to perform Mass at St. Agatha Catholic Church, which has become the spiritual home of the growing Nicaraguan diaspora, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, in Miami. (Credit: Rebecca Blackwell/AP.)

In Nicaragua, Ortega shuts down Matagalpa’s Caritas

Aug 15
Eduardo Campos Lima

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega, left, shakes hands with Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at Itamaraty palace in Brasilia, Brazil July 28, 2010. (Credit: Eraldo Peres/AP.)

Brazil and Nicaragua cut ties over Ortega’s persecution of clergy

Aug 9
Eduardo Campos Lima

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega poses for a photo during the ALBA Summit at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. (Credit: Adalberto Roque/Pool Photo via AP.)

Thirteen priests and religious Catholics detained in Nicaragua

Aug 6
Eduardo Campos Lima

Radio Maria headquarters in Nicaragua. (Credit: Radio Maria.)

Ortega’s regime cancels legal status of Catholic station in Nicaragua

Jul 11
Eduardo Campos Lima

Nicaragua blocks indigenous priest from returning to the country

Jul 8
Eduardo Campos Lima

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega poses for a photo during the ALBA Summit at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. Nicaragua’s government has shut down the country’s scouting organization and seven other nongovernmental organizations, state media La Gaceta reported Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, the latest in an ongoing crackdown that has seen the government toss out religious orders, charities and civic groups. (Credit: Adalberto Roque, Pool Photo via AP.)

British parliamentarians urge more action against Nicaragua regime

Apr 4
Charles Collins

Pope’s global round-up interesting in part for what he didn’t say

Mar 31
John L. Allen Jr.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (Credit: Matias Delacroix/AP.)

Catholic leaders in Venezuela skeptical of Maduro’s election promises

Mar 4
Eduardo Campos Lima

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