Nicaragua's government released 19 clergy members who were incarcerated last year under the current regime's escalated crackdown on religious leaders, including Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa.

Pope Francis today publicly denounced the sentencing of Nicaragua’s Bishop Rolando Álvarez to 26 years and four months in prison. He also lamented the deportation of more than 200 opponents of ...

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 refused to leave with the rest of the 222 political prisoners flown to the U.S. on Thursday. World Nicaragua has freed 222 political prisoners and sent them to the U.S.

Nicaraguan police on Friday detained a bishop and seven other priests and seminarians, after a 16-day standoff, in an escalation of tensions between the country’s government and the Catholic Church.

Rolando Alvarez, bishop of Matagalpa, gives a news conference regarding the Roman Catholic Church's agreeing to act as "mediator and witness" in a national dialogue between members of civil ...

The Nicaraguan government said Sunday it released Bishop Rolando Alvarez and 18 clergy members from jail and handed them over to Vatican authorities.

Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, a frequent critic of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, prays at a Catholic church in Managua May 20, 2022.

In his first public Mass, celebrated in Seville province, Spain, Bishop Rolando Álvarez, who has been living in exile in Rome since January, prayed for his “beloved Nicaragua” and offered his ...

Nicaragua's government released Alvarez, sentenced to 26 years in prison for conspiracy and other crimes, and sent him on a plane to the Vatican, according to the auxiliary bishop of Managua ...

Nicaraguan police on Friday detained a bishop and seven other priests and seminarians, after a 16-day standoff, in an escalation of tensions between the country’s government and the Catholic Church.