Facing ongoing pressure, more religious orders leave Nicaragua

In the last week, Poor Clares and Carmelite friars have left the country

Two more religious orders have left Nicaragua in recent days, amid widespread persecution of Catholics in the country.

Poor Clare nuns talk with Bishop Silvio Baez in 2013, at a Managua monastery. Courtesy photo.

While one order says it left because of a lack of vocations, sources say that government pressure was almost certainly a factor in its departur…