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OAS council may seek emergency foreign‑ministers session over Nicaragua crackdown
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) may summon hemispheric foreign ministers for an emergency session on…
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OAS council may seek emergency foreign‑ministers session over Nicaragua crackdown
The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) may summon hemispheric foreign ministers for an emergency session on…
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UN human rights commissioner presses Nicaragua for answers on missing bishop
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk demanded that the Nicaraguan regime provide information on the whereabouts and…
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Catholic News - Americas
Priest who fled Nicaragua prays daily for God to free country from ‘cruel regime’
With his hope placed in Jesus Christ and a longing to see his homeland free one day, a Nicaraguan priest…
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Nigeria, Nicaragua, Syria, India cited in index of rising Christian persecution
International Christian Concern (ICC) released its 2026 Global Persecution Index, offering an in-depth analysis of the persecution Christians face in…
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Bishop Báez on Nicaragua: ‘The people’s wounds will be scars healed by the love of God’
Amid the fierce persecution against the Catholic Church by the regime of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife and…
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Churches packed in Nicaragua for Holy Week amid restrictions and police presence
Nicaragua’s churches were “filled with the faithful” during Holy Week 2026 despite continued governmental restrictions and persecution, according to Father…
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Miami archbishop, top U.S. diplomat decry persecution of Church in Nicaragua during Holy Week
During Holy Week, the archbishop of Miami, Thomas Wenski, and the second-in-command at the U.S. State Department, Deputy Secretary Christopher…
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Exiled Bishop Báez of Nicaragua: ‘For the Church, this is not a time for silence’
Silvio Báez, the exiled auxiliary bishop of Managua, Nicaragua, said in a homily on Jan. 25 that “freedom and democratization…
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Catholic News - Americas
Nuns leave Nicaragua after years of evangelization, deny expulsion
The Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of the Holy Family announced they are leaving Nicaragua after a period of “discernment by the…
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