Tag: Nicaragua

Another Nicaraguan bishop has reportedly disappeared after being detained by police, intensifying concerns over the government's treatment of the Catholic Church.

Ordinations of priests and deacons have been halted in four Nicaraguan dioceses, aggravating a shortage of priests as the Sandinista regime continues its suffocation of the Catholic Church.

Nicaragua's ruling Sandinista regime has seized a prominent Catholic school, claiming without proof that it had operated a "torture" center during past protests and renaming the education facility for a slain partisan.

In Nicaragua, Catholics celebrated Palm Sunday under intense government scrutiny, as police and paramilitaries surrounded Managua’s cathedral and restricted Holy Week activities to church grounds.

Nicaragua's government issued a harsh statement 8 February condemning the Vatican following remarks by exiled Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa.

The largest organisation of women and men religious in Latin America called for the "respect of life" of women and men religious in Nicaragua 29 January, following online reports overnight that a group of Poor Clares has been expelled from the country.

Published on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Francis sent a letter to the people of Nicaragua, telling them he is with them. 

People hospitalised in Nicaragua can no longer receive the anointing of the sick. This is the latest measure of the Ortega regime, where priests are being prohibited from visiting public hospitals to administer the sacrament.

Pope Francis has expressed his continued sorrow over the war in Ukraine while asking that "no Christian church be abolished" after the Ukrainian parliament passed a law to ban the Moscow Patriarchate-affiliated jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

The Nicaraguan government has extinguished the legal status of more than 25 Catholic organisations, including religious orders such as the Franciscans as part of an attack on civil society with the closure of 1,500 nongovernmental organisations.

The Ortega dictatorship has continued its repression of Christians in Nicaragua with the closing of Caritas in the diocese of Matagalpa. 

The oppression against the Catholics in Nicaragua continues as the church has now faced its biggest wave of persecution since December 2023.