{"id":13190,"date":"2023-12-22T15:03:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T15:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/nicaragua-arrests-second-bishop-as-crackdown-on-catholic-church-intensifies\/"},"modified":"2023-12-22T15:03:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T15:03:22","slug":"nicaragua-arrests-second-bishop-as-crackdown-on-catholic-church-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/nicaragua-arrests-second-bishop-as-crackdown-on-catholic-church-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua arrests second bishop as crackdown on Catholic church intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Bishop\u00a0Isidoro Mora, of the Siuna church on\u00a0the country\u2019s Caribbean coast, was arrested after taking part in\u00a0a mass to celebrate the anniversary of the Matagalpa church, the sources said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The source quoted Mora as saying \u201cwe are here praying for Matagalpa church, praying for\u00a0bishop\u00a0Rolando.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The source added, \u201cUnfortunately, (Mora) was arrested the next day.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u00c1lvarez, the bishop\u00a0of Matagalpa, is\u00a0serving a 26-year prison sentence on charges including conspiracy and treason. He was sentenced after refusing to leave the country along with 200 other people who had opposed the government.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have fled their homeland to avoid persecution since 2018, when Ortega\u2019s government cracked down on widespread anti-regime protests, killing hundreds of people, injuring thousands and arbitrarily detaining many, according to Human Rights Watch.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Protesters and their families at the time sometimes sought refuge from attacks by pro-government forces inside the country\u2019s churches and cathedrals.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Nicaragua\u2019s authoritarian government, led by Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, have since viewed the Catholic church as opposition forces and labeled the protests as an \u201cattempted coup.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Mora\u2019s arrest came months after two Costa Rican nuns were expelled from Nicaragua in April, also after praying for \u00c1lvarez.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThis is part of a repressive pattern against the Catholic church,\u201d said Yader Moraz\u00e1n, an expert\u00a0in\u00a0Nicaragua\u2019s judiciary system and a former public servant\u00a0in\u00a0the country.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThey have jailed dozens of priests and laymen and have expelled or blocked the return of more than 200 people, between priests and nuns,\u201d Moraz\u00e1n said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A news release Monday\u00a0by\u00a0state-owned website El19digital\u00a0reported the arrest of 11 people linked to Christian organizations who have been accused of money laundering.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Ortega claimed a fifth term as president in 2021. In June of that year, his government began using a vague national security law as justification to lock up opposition presidential candidates and leaders, journalists and human rights activists ahead of the elections.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop\u00a0Isidoro Mora, of the Siuna church on\u00a0the country\u2019s Caribbean coast, was arrested after taking part in\u00a0a mass to celebrate the anniversary of the Matagalpa church, the sources said. The source quoted Mora as saying \u201cwe are here praying for Matagalpa church, praying for\u00a0bishop\u00a0Rolando.\u201d The source added, \u201cUnfortunately, (Mora) was arrested the next day.\u201d \u00c1lvarez, the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}