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Nicaragua crackdown on Catholic Church fuels fear and exile
Exiled priests and rights advocates report 19 priests expelled and hundreds of incidents of harassment and desecration in 2024. They describe pervasive surveillance, church closures, and a climate where reporting attacks risks reprisals, as Ortega and family label clergy as terrorists.
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Miami
Nicaragua
Daniel Ortega
Martha Patricia Molina
United States
U.S. State Department
Molina
Associated Press
Ortega
U.S
Commission On International Religious Freedom
Rosario Murillo
Alicia Quinones
PEN International
Americas
Religious Freedom Commission
Rolando Alvarez
Vatican
Holy See