Nicaragua s exiled clergy and faithful in Miami keep up struggle for human rights at Mass
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Nicaragua s exiled clergy and faithful in Miami keep up struggle for human rights at Mass
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Bishop Rolando Álvarez of the Diocese of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Diocese of MatagalpaACI Prensa Staff, Mar 7, 2023 / 13:15 pm (CNA).The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called on the Nicaraguan dictatorship to release Bishop Rolando Álvarez and other political prisoners.The Daniel Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua sentenced the bishop of Matagalpa to 26 years and four months in prison on Feb. 10 on several charges that included being a "traitor to the homeland."The sentence against Álvarez was issued just one day after the regime deported 222 political prisoners to the United States. The exiles and the bishop were stripped of their Nicaraguan citizenship based on a law passed Feb. 9.Álvarez refused to board the plane that would have taken him to freedom unless he first could meet and consult with the priests already aboard the plane and also the Nicaraguan bishops, a request that was denied and that Ortega later called &qu