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Nicaraguan priest faces eight years in jail for social media post

January 18, 2023

A Catholic priest in Nicaragua is facing eight years in jail after he shared a social media post allegedly critical of Daniel Ortega’s hard-left regime. A Nicaraguan court has found Fr Oscar Benavidez Dávila guilty of “conspiracy” against the state. According to the Nicaraguan media outlet 100% Noticias, Judge Nancy Aguirre of the Tenth Criminal

Crackdown on Church in Nicaragua intensifies

November 01, 2022

Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has stepped up his persecution of the Catholic Church by arresting a 64-year-old chronically-ill priest and imprisoning him practically naked. Police kicked in the doors of a presbytery of a church in Managua, the capital of the central American country, and dragged out Fr Enrique Martínez Gamboa. As they bundled the

Nicaragua: Catholics fear priests are next in wave of political arrests

June 21, 2021

Over the past few weeks, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s regime has arrested 17 political leaders of the opposition, including four potential candidates in the upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for November.