Roman Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, is in prison this week. He may be there for 26 years. Bishop Alvarez has protested against the regime of President Daniel Ortega ...

Bishop Rolando Álvarez and the other clergy were jailed more than a year ago, in most cases, as part of a crackdown on the opposition and Catholic church by Ortega. He had accused them of ...

Bishop Rolando Álvarez and the other clergy were jailed more than a year ago, in most cases, as part of a crackdown on the opposition and Catholic church by Ortega. He had accused them of ...

MEXICO CITY — Roman Catholic Bishop Rolando Álvarez, an outspoken critic of Nicaragua’s government, was sentenced to 26 years in prison and stripped of his Nicaraguan citizenship Friday ...

El 19 Digital, a news media outlet supportive of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, posted a video of Bishop Rolando Álvarez in which he shares a few comments about how he is doing.

The pre-dawn raid came after Nicaraguan authorities had accused Matagalpa Bishop Rolando Álvarez of "organizing violent groups" and inciting them "to carry out acts of hate against the population." ...

MEXICO CITY — Nicaragua’s government released two jailed Roman Catholic bishops and 15 other priests who had been detained during one of the world’s harshest crackdowns on the church ...

Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez refused to leave Nicaragua with other political prisoners released on Thursday. MEXICO CITY — A day after banishing most of its political prisoners to the United ...

(Reuters) - Nicaraguan Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez was released from prison late on Monday, a diplomatic source said, marking a possible turning point in the government's prolonged crackdown ...

During a recent pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Divine Child in the Diocese of Matagalpa, Bishop Rolando Álvarez called the faithful to prayer and adoration. Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa ...

MEXICO CITY -- Roman Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez, an outspoken critic of Nicaragua's government, was sentenced to 26 years in prison and stripped of his Nicaraguan citizenship Friday ...

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