A 54-year-old local man received a suspended sentence with probation Monday after he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year ...

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.

Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos is once again in the news after Pope Francis appointed him to participate in the second session of the Synod on Synodality, which got underway this week at the ...

Nicaragua's government released 19 clergy members who were incarcerated last year under the current regime's escalated crackdown on religious leaders, including Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa.

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.

An image of Bishop Rolando Álvarez is pinned to a robe on a statue of Jesus Christ at the Cathedral in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, on Friday. Nicaraguan police on Friday raided Alvarez's residence ...

Bishop Rolando Álvarez: Well, I am very happy in Rome because when I was detained, I thought that at the time of liberation, after Nicaragua, the best city in which I could live is the eternal one.

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 ...

On July 7, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would terminate the designation of Temporary Protected Status for ...

Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos is once again in the news after Pope Francis appointed him to participate in the second session of the Synod on Synodality.

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.