‘Let them be free’: Nicaraguan Bishop Álvarez begins 26 years in prison

Bishop Rolando Álvarez declined a chance to be deported from Nicaragua. The next day, he was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

One day after he declined to be deported from his country, Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

And while Pope Francis has spoken out against the bishop’s treatment, along with bishops and priests exiled from Nicaragua, few Churchmen inside the country have publicly recognized Álvarez’s criminal prosecution.

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