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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Can the Vatican stop Nicaragua’s Catholic crackdown?
Description: Podcast: The Inquiry (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Can the Vatican stop Nicaragua’s Catholic crackdown?Pub date: 2024-02-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAfter serving nearly a year of his 26 year sentence for treason in a Nicaraguan jail, Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa was flown to Rome in January. The high profile bishop known as an outspoken critic of President Ortega’s Sandinista government has been under house arrest since August 2022. He was allowed to leave the country alongside his supporter Bishop I...