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Nicaragua released imprisoned priests, but repression is unlikely to relent – and the Catholic Church remains a target

  • Written by Kai M. Thaler, Assistant Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
imageA priest and Catholic worshippers pray in front of an image of 'Sangre de Cristo,' burned in a fire on July 2020, at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua.Oswaldo Rivas/AFP via Getty Images

Bad news has been the norm for Catholics in Nicaragua, where clergy and church groups have been frequent targets of a wide-ranging crackdown for years. But on...

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