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This week, the US Catholic Bishops Conference is marking their annual Religious Freedom Week, reminding people of the importance of this basic human right and ...

Religious Freedom. It’s a value that was so important to the Founding Fathers that they dedicated the First Amendment to the Constitution to it. It’s ...

The 19 clerics were imprisoned in Nicaragua for speaking out against injustices and human rights violations, or merely for trying to operate freely. Bur concern ...

"Demonstrations of popular piety such as the Way of Cross or processions have been forbidden and can no longer go from parishes out into the ...

According to information from local news sources, the government has now taken to arresting and reprimanding priests who mention bishop Rolando Álvarez in their sermons, ...

“These events represent a further escalation in a spiral of confrontation. There is no easy solution. We must pray that there may be a peaceful ...

The study estimates that the figures it presents are lower than the actual number of attacks. “Cases were found where the priests were so tired ...

Bishop Álvarez, who has taken refuge during in the parish of Santo Cristo de las Colinas, in Managua, accused the police of having set up ...

his testimony helped me appreciate the efforts of every young person who chose to remain faithful to the Gospel message without fear of the consequences."

"These attacks against the faith of the Catholic people need to be carefully analyzed, in order to expose the ideological and physical perpetrators of this ...