US EditionNicaragua jails second Catholic bishop as crackdown intensifies
- Nicaraguan police have arrested a second Catholic bishop, Isidro Mora, for praying for another detained bishop, Rolando Alvarez.
- President Ortega's government has targeted clerics for speaking out against their rule, jailing some and expelling others.
- The Catholic Church has faced government crackdown since sheltering students during anti-government protests in 2018.
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Second Bishop Detained by the Dictatorship in Nicaragua
Mnsgr. Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega is bishop of the Diocese of Siuna, Nicaragua. In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, who has been in power uninterruptedly since 2007, has directed his attacks against Catholic institutions and various members of the clergy.
Nicaragua jails second Catholic bishop as crackdown intensifies
Nicaragua arrested another Catholic bishop on Wednesday, December 20, a source in close contact with local church leaders told Reuters following local media reports, making the bishop the second such leader to be detained in a prolonged crackdown. Police arrested Bishop Isidro Mora of the Triangulo Minero diocese, located along the country’s northern Caribbean coast, according to the source. Local news outlets including Despacho 505 and La Prens…
The Nicaraguan police arrested Catholic Bishop Isidoro Mora, in the midst of a conflict between the church and the Government of Daniel Ortega.
Daniel Ortega has no restraint on the objective of turning his country into the North Korea of Central America, based on total and despotic social control, isolated from the outside world and...
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