Nicaraguan Bishop Álvarez to face conspiracy trial

In Nicaragua, Bishop Rolando Álvarez has been charged with conspiracy, and several lay associates have been taken into police custody.

Nicaragua’s Bishop Rolando Álvarez will face trial next month, after he was charged Tuesday with conspiracy against the Nicaraguan state. A Managua judge appointed a public defender for the bishop and formally ordered his house arrest, even while the bishop has been under an unofficial house arrest since August.

Álvarez, the Bishop of Matagalpa, was form…