Nicaragua orders bishop to remain under house arrest
Mexico City, MexicoAP A Nicaraguan court has ordered that a Roman Catholic bishop remain under house arrest on charges of “conspiracy” and “spreading false news,” a government media site said Tuesday. The government website El 19 Digital said Matagalpa Bishop Rolando Álvarez has been formally charged with those crimes and “damaging the Nicaraguan government and […]
Nicaragua’s government shutters six church radio stations
Mexico City, MexicoAP Nicaraguan authorities ordered the closure of six radio stations belonging to the Roman Catholic Church on Monday and surrounded one with riot police, church officials said. Rev Rolando Álvarez, the Bishop of the northern province of Matagalpa, said during Mass that the he had received a letter from the tate telecommunications agency […]
Nicaraguan bishop fasts to protest police harassment
Mexico City, MexicoAP A Roman Catholic bishop in Nicaragua began an “indefinite fast” Friday inside a church to protest increasing harassment from national police, who he said followed him throughout the entire previous day. Rolando Álvarez, the Bishop of Matagalpa and a fierce critic of President Daniel Ortega’s government, said in a video published by […]