Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa walks outside a Catholic church in Managua in this 2022 file photo. After more than 500 days’ detention, the Ortega regime released the prelate, who has been the Nicaraguan government’s most prominent critic, from prison January 14, 2023, and sent into exile along with 18 other imprisoned churchmen. Photo: OSV
News/Maynor Valenzuela, Reuters Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa has been released from prison and sent into exile along with 18 imprisoned churchmen as the Nicaraguan government expelled its most prominent critic, whose presence behind bars bore witness to the Sandinista regime’s descent into totalitarianism, along with its unrelenting persecution of the Catholic Church. Vatican News confirmed on January 14 at…
