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.
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Washington officials renewed their demands to release Nicaraguan bishop Rolando Alvarez after photos and videos of him undergoing medical checkups surfaced.