Frozen bank accounts are freezing the Church in Nicaragua. Here's why

The persecution of the Church is getting a boost from alleged money laundering charges and frozen bank accounts. Where will stop?

A seminary in the Nicaraguan city of Bluefields announced this week it would cease operations, after the government froze its bank accounts last month — along with the accounts of hundreds of other Nicaraguan Catholic institutions, which the government says are complicit in an international money-laundering scheme. 

But Church leaders say the alleged mon…