Nicaraguan co-presidents

“The Ortega-Murillo regime will be held accountable for its systematic persecution of the Catholic Church and the Nicaraguan people,” said U.S. Sen. Rick Scott.

Nicaragua’s co-presidents are likely seeking a renewal in Catholic leadership, with clergy supportive of the regime populating the hierarchy.

The U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs blasted the school’s seizure in a X post, decrying the “cruelty” of the nation’s dictatorship.

Her deep Catholic faith “struck a chord with conservative peasants some of whom linked her to the Virgin Mary.”

Pope Francis exercised an outsized role in world affairs with his pleas for peace in Ukraine and Gaza, advocacy for the rights of migrants and dealing with hostile regimes persecuting …