Bishop Rolando Álvarez gives a news conference in 2018. Álvarez has remained in prison for more than a year after being convicted of conspiracy and receiving a 26-year prison sentence.

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.

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 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 Vatican.

Para gran parte de la población en Durango, los puentes festivos que se han registrado desde mayo, han representado un ...