Nicaraguan Perspectives

Even though the Ortega regime has now released the two bishops and 17 priests unjustly jailed- in fact, banishing them from the country and stripping them of their citizenship- this…

In light of the wave of attacks against the Church in the last days of 2023 which involved the jailing of a bishop, fourteen priests and seminarians, this letter urges…

“All the priests that pray for him are arrested.” The method of the dictatorship for the Church to forget Mons. Álvarez In La Prensa, Dec 26, 2023 In recent weeks…

Ortega also attacks Evangelical Churches: More than 200 NGOs closed December 8, 2023 in Nicaragua Investiga The dictatorship in Nicaragua has arbitrarily cancelled 342 religious organizations in recent years, within…

Regime attempts to impose religión without religious In La Prensa, Dec 5, 2023 The Nicaragua Nunca + Human Rights Collective presented new documentation about attacks on the Catholic Church The…

When  Sheynnis Palacios, won the Miss Universe contest on November 18th, it was the first time a Central American, much less a Nicaraguan, had won. The story dominated the news…

Although this article is now 3 weeks old, we publish it here because it provides in one place a good summary of the attacks of the Ortega regime against the…

In the last week there was a striking shakeup within the Supreme Court which rippled through the Judicial Branch, surprising in the sense that it has been known to be…

What will happen to the El Tepeyac Shrine and the Franciscans, after the elimination of the legal status of the Franciscan Order? In La Prensa, October 25, 2023 The confiscation…

CPC [Citizen Power Committees] threaten Nicaraguans with “jail or exile”  La Prensa, Oct 18, 2023  CALIDH [Interamerican Human Rights Legal Assistance Center] received denouncements that police officials as well as…