Exiled Nicaraguan dissident Reinaldo Picado was shot on Monday while he was working in his residence in Costa Rica, multiple outlets reported.
Exiled Nicaraguan Bishop Silvio Báez on Sunday called upon Catholic Faithful to not be “passive” against dictatorships that destroy democracies and threaten people’s liberties — stressing that remaining silent in the face of dictatorships “can make you an accomplice.”
Communist dictator of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega this week declared the end of elections in the Central American country — further cementing his decades-old rule.
Nicaraguan human rights activists demanded the Ortega regime show proof of life of 80-year-old Bishop Emeritus Juan Abelardo Mata.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sanctioned over 100 members of Nicaragua’s Ortega regime after the death of Brooklyn Rivera.
Rosario Murillo, the wife of Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega, on Tuesday lashed out against the Nicaraguan Catholic Church, accusing its priests of being “servants of Satan.”
Nicaraguan Catholics were once again prohibited from freely celebrating Holy Week this year after the communist regime, led by dictatorial husband-and-wife couple Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, banned all Catholic processions in the country for the third year in a row.
Nicaragua’s communist regime prohibited 406 Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) Catholic processions during the first week of Lent, the newspaper La Prensa reported this week.
Nicaragua’s communist regime banned the Catholic dioceses of León and Chinandega from carrying out door-to-door evangelization, newspaper La Prensa reported on Thursday.
Over 30 Nicaraguans have been detained by local law enforcement for celebrating the capture of deposed Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the newspaper La Prensa reported on Friday.
Nicaragua’s communist regime is banning travelers from bringing Bibles into the country, the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa reported.
Nicaragua is set to pay $2 billion in interest to China for the multiple predatory debt trap loans it has signed with the Chinese communist regime, the newspaper Confidencial reported Monday.
The administration of President Donald Trump deported more Nicaraguan migrants during the first nine months of 2025 than all of 2024 and 2023 combined, the newspaper Confidencial reported on Sunday.
A Chinese mining company exported $25.6 million worth of Nicaraguan gold to Miami between January and August 2025.
Nicaragua has signed a contract with the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), a major actor in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
Rosario Murillo, wife of communist dictator Daniel Ortega and “co-president” of Nicaragua, praised the “heroism of Jesus Christ” on Tuesday in an address ignoring the fact that her regime has banned Holy Week processions in the country.
Nicaragua is forcing the nation’s Catholic priests to present themselves at local police stations weekly for questioning and submitting their homilies for review, the online Catholic outlet The Pillar reported on Wednesday.
The Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa reported on Monday that the communist regime turned the seized Episcopal Curia of Matagalpa into the location of a social security-affiliated company and stole all of the relics housed therein.
Nicaragua on Thursday announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council in response to a recently published report by a group of U.N. experts calling for international action against the worsening repression led by dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife and “co-president” Rosario Murillo.
The Sandinista regime of co-dictators Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo in Nicaragua published an unhinged screed this weekend declaring the Vatican a “depraved pedophile” state guilty of “Pharisean mysticism,” an apparent response to the public appearance of a bishop Managua persecuted.
An Argentine federal court on Monday ordered the arrest of Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega.
Nicaragua’s communist regime reportedly kidnapped Catholic priest Ezequiel Buenfil Batún in its ongoing persecution against the Church.
Catholics in Nicaragua said the communist Sandinista regime threatened to arrest anyone celebrating Catholic events in public.
The communist Sandinista regime of Nicaragua sent Matagalpa Bishop Monsignor Rolando Álvarez back to prison on Wednesday after negotiations between the Vatican and the Ortega regime failed to secure his release, according to the local newspaper, Confidencial.
The Nicaraguan Ortega regime published a series of photographs and videos this weekend of Matagalpa Bishop Monsignor Rolando Álvarez amidst growing pressure from human rights organizations that demanded proof of life for the Catholic priest.
The government of Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has finally brought formal charges against a bishop it has been holding since August 19, accusing him of “conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the nation” and “propagation of false news.”
The Nicaraguan National Police announced Friday it has opened an investigation into Catholic leaders for allegedly inciting violent acts with the intent of destabilizing the country.
Nicaraguan Catholics are reportedly increasingly upset at Pope Francis for remaining silent as the oppressive Communist regime of dictator Daniel Ortega shuts down Catholic radio stations and sends goon squads to harass protesters.
Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes has responded to recent attacks by the wife of dictator Daniel Ortega, reminding the faithful that “ideologies” and “governments pass, but the Church remains.”
A police siege of the Catholic Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua, ended on Wednesday after a mob loyal to Communist dictator Daniel Ortega broke into the building and attacked opposition hunger strikers.
Daniel Ortega’s communist regime in Nicaragua is responsible for “gross human rights violations” and continues to act with impunity amid a widespread popular uprising, a report the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Organization of American States (OAS) revealed Tuesday.
The United States sanctioned Nicaraguan First Lady Rosario Murillo on Tuesday as part of a wider crackdown against the brutality of the Daniel Ortega’s socialist regime.
The vice-president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, has said that the communist government’s most recent brutal crackdown on priests and citizens was “the work of faith in God.”
