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Church in Nicaragua

Nicaraguan priests must submit homilies for police inspection
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Edgar Beltrán
Facing ongoing pressure, more religious orders leave Nicaragua
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Edgar Beltrán
Ortega regime seizes Nicaragua’s Matagalpa seminary
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Edgar Beltrán
Religious sisters face government pressure to leave Nicaragua
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Edgar Beltrán
Pope encourages Nicaraguan people to trust, persevere
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Edgar Beltrán
Nicaraguan regime exiles president of bishops’ conference
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Edgar Beltrán
Pope appoints exiled Nicaraguan Bishop Álvarez as synod delegate
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Edgar Beltrán
The priests of the Nicaraguan dictatorship
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Edgar Beltrán
At least 12 priests arrested in new surge of Nicaraguan repression
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Edgar Beltrán
Nicaragua ordinations bring hope - but is it enough?
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Edgar Beltrán
Has the Nicaraguan Church been bullied into silence?
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Edgar Beltrán
Who will succeed Nicaragua’s Cardinal Brenes - and when?
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Luke Coppen
Bishop Álvarez freed in Nicaragua, exiled to Vatican
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Edgar Beltrán
The Church in Nicaragua's bleak midwinter
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Edgar Beltrán
Monseñor Rolando Álvarez estaría abierto a irse al exilio
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Edgar Beltrán
Bishop Álvarez would accept exile, health declines
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Edgar Beltrán
Ortega regime continues crackdown after 12 priests deported
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Edgar Beltrán
Jesuits face crackdown, after long history with Nicaragua's Ortega
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Edgar Beltrán
How talks to free Nicaragua’s Bishop Álvarez failed
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Edgar Beltrán
Frozen bank accounts are freezing the Church in Nicaragua. Here's why
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Edgar Beltrán
Nicaragua seminary faculty closure was likely forced compromise
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Edgar Beltrán
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