Pope Francis Sunday said he was “saddened” and worried after Roman Catholic Bishop Roland Álvarez was sentenced to 26 years in prison for speaking out against the Nicaraguan government.…
Pope Francis Sunday said he was “saddened” and worried after Roman Catholic Bishop Roland Álvarez was sentenced to 26 years in prison for speaking out against the Nicaraguan government.
Álvarez was among several other Catholic leaders arrested in August for being critical of Ortega’s increasingly. The strongman ordered the release of Álvarez and hundreds of other political prisoners Thursday, and flew some of them to Washington, D.C. Álvarez had been an outspoken dissenter of Ortega since a wave of protests against his government led to crackdowns on opponents in 2018.AFP via Getty Images
Ortega had more recently accused Catholic leaders of being part of a supposed plot to depose him, and had seized several radio stations owned by the diocese. “Since first becoming the ruling party in 1979 the Sandinistas have repressed the Catholic Church like few other regimes in Latin America,” Chesnut said.
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