Since 2018, Bishop Rolando José Alvarez Lagos has been a victim of persecution for his homilies in which he reflects on the country’s crisis, state repression and victims of human rights violations.

Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Aug 19, 2022 / 12:52 pm. The Nicaraguan national police said that the kidnapping of Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, this morning was carried out to "recover normality ...

MEXICO CITY — The Nicaraguan government said Sunday it released Bishop Rolando Álvarez and 18 clergy members from jail and handed them over to Vatican authorities. They had been jailed more ...

Roman Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, is in prison this week. He may be there for 26 years. Bishop Alvarez has protested against the regime of President Daniel Ortega, and ...

The Nicaraguan government said Sunday it released Bishop Rolando Alvarez and 18 clergy members from jail and handed them over to Vatican authorities.

Roman Catholic bishop Rolando Alvarez was sentenced to more than 26 years in prison on a charge of treason after he refused to be exiled to the United States last week.

Nicaraguan police on Friday detained a bishop and seven other priests and seminarians, after a 16-day standoff, in an escalation of tensions between the country’s government and the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis has called on politicians in Nicaragua to "open their hearts" over the “concerning” jailing of Bishop Rolando Alvarez, a prominent critic of the increasing authoritarianism of ...

Bishop Rolando Álvarez refused to board a plane for the U.S. with 222 other political prisoners. He was sentenced to 26 years in prison and stripped of his citizenship.

Rolando Alvarez, bishop of the Diocese of Matagalpa and a critic of the Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, walks at Managua's catholic church where he is taking refuge alleging he had been ...