Nicaragua: new priests ordained as UN appeals for missing religious
January 10, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes of Managua, Nicaragua’s capital, ordained nine men to the priesthood on the feast of the Epiphany, following a Christmas crackdown that saw the arrests of 14 priests, two seminarians, and a bishop.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for Central America issued a renewed appeal for the release of Bishop Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega of Siuna, who was jailed in December.
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