MEXICO CITY — The Nicaraguan government said Sunday it released Bishop Rolando Álvarez and 18 clergy members from jail and handed them over to Vatican authorities. They had been jailed more ...

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 ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Nicaraguan judge sentenced Roman Catholic Bishop Rolando Álvarez to 26 years ... put on a flight to Washington Thursday, Alvarez refused to board without being able to ...

Bishop Rolando Álvarez refused to leave with the rest of the 222 political prisoners flown to the U.S. on Thursday. According to media reports, he stopped at the stairs leading to the airplane ...

MIAMI — Nicaraguan Catholic Bishop Rolando Álvarez's supporters are ... We call for the immediate, unconditional release of Bishop Alvarez.” The statement went on to say that “the United ...

Exiled Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez is slated to be among the participants in the second and last session of the Synod of Synodality, set to take place at the Vatican next month from Oct. 2 ...

July 4 (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 ...

Police entered the headquarters of the Matagalpa diocese and arrested Bishop Rolando Álvarez and the ... began investigating the diocese came after Alvarez objected to the closure of Catholic ...

MEXICO CITY — The Nicaraguan government said Sunday it released Bishop Rolando Álvarez and 18 clergy members from jail and handed them over to Vatican authorities. They had been jailed more ...