ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 29, 2025 / 10:24 am

The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, in Nicaragua has banned more than 16,500 religious processions and activities in recent years and has perpetrated 1,010 attacks against the Catholic Church.

The statistics are recorded in the seventh installment of the Spanish-language report “ Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church ” by exiled lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina, released on Aug. 27.

Regarding the ban on processions, Molina explained that it has worsened since 2022 and that the dictatorship has imposed it throughout the country since then. However, the report does not cover all parish churches or chapels, of which there are 400 in Managua alone.

“So the figure presented in the study co

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