Nicaragua releases Bishop Álvarez, more than a dozen Catholic political prisoners to Vatican
The released Catholic prisoners, including two bishops, are now in the care of the Holy See.
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Communist Nicaragua regime arrests six more priests in ongoing persecution
The new arrests on December 29 and 30 came just after the Ortega government detained two priests for their public prayers for the imprisoned Bishop Rolando Álvarez.
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Exiled Nicaraguan Catholics testify to Congress about communist regime’s persecution of Church
‘The international community can no longer turn a blind eye to what is happening to the people of Nicaragua—including and especially people of faith,’ Congressman Chris Smith said.
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Six Catholic priests arrested in one week by Nicaragua's communist Ortega regime
Thirteen members of the clergy have now been arrested by the communist regime of Daniel Ortega, which is also detaining and tracking Catholic laity.
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Nicaragua's anti-Catholic regime expels congregation of religious sisters
The Ortega regime's anti-Catholic actions have been met with harsh criticism by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the European Union, and the United Nations, amid Pope Francis' relative silence.
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US congressman urges Pope, Biden to condemn Nicaragua's persecution of Catholics
'It is unconscionable that we have not done everything we can to stop international loans from going to prop up this dirty dictatorship.'
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NO CHARGES LAID IN NICARAGUA ABORTION
MANAGUA, March 4, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Nicaragua’s attorney general announced yesterday that no one will face charges in the abortion of a four-month unborn baby last month, because abortion is legal under special circumstances, including alleged risk to the health of the mother, in the once-Catholic country. Maria del Carmen Solorzano said the abortion didn’t break any laws because “it was carried out to save the girl’s life”—even though doctors said the danger of the nine-year-old having an abortion and carrying the child to term were equal. A government medical commission said it was not clear the abortion was medically […]
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Nicaragua Congress to Debate Legalizing Abortion
By Gudrun Schultz MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A new proposal to allow therapeutic abortion is being considered by the National Assembly of Nicaragua. The proposal would change the country’s Penal Code to legalize abortions. Efforts to bring easy abortion access into the country have been fuelled by feminist groups, who used the highly publicized case of a nine-year-old girl made pregnant by rape in 2003, to push for changes to the law. The child was eventually given an abortion despite the illegality of the procedure. Bishop Juan Abelardo, president of the Bishops’ Committee on Family Ministry, published […]
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Nicaragua Moves Closer to Ban on All Abortions
Decision supported by majority of the population
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Nicaragua: Bishop Condemns “Therapeutic” Abortion
MANAGUA, September 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bishop Abelardo Mata, the president of the Committee for the Family of the Nicaraguan bishops’ conference, has sharply condemned the proposals of some politicians in his country to legalise so-called “therapeutic abortion”. Speaking to the international Catholic pastoral charity, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), he stated that Nicaragua had no need of “therapeutic abortion” to protect the rights of its citizens. The very use of the term “therapeutic” was an ill chosen one, he said, since in reality it was a matter of a “crime”. The majority of people in Nicaragua were […]
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