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  Nicaragua: Report shows harsh clampdown on faith, civil society https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/46109 via @icn_uk Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has today published a new report on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in Nicaragua which finds that the government is aggressively attempting to eliminate independent civil society and is responsible for a growing number of serious FoRB violations. The report, entitled 'Nicaragua: Civil society under siege' covers a twelve-month period beginning in November 2021 and is based on first-hand documentation carried out on the ground by Nicaraguan FoRB defenders with support from human rights defenders who have been forced into exile. Documented violations include arbitrary detention, denial of entry to Nicaragua or forced expulsion from the country, threats, harassment, the forced cancellation of religious activities, confiscation of property and the arbitrary cancellation of the legal status of civil society organisations...

https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/46434   A Nicaraguan judge found four Roman Catholic priests, two seminarians and a church cameraman guilty of conspiracy against the state in a trial held on Thursday 26 January. Father Ramiro Tijerino, rector of the John Paul II University and parish priest at the church of San Juan Bautista; Father Sadiel Eugarrios, Cathedral sub-dean, Father Raúl González, Father José Luis Díaz, dean of the Matagalpa de San Pedro Cathedral, seminarians Darvin Leiva and Melkin Sequeira, and cameraman Sergio Cárdenas were detained on 19 August 2022, after Nicaraguan security forces stormed the Diocese of Matagalpa curia where the seven men had been forcibly confined along with Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos and four others for 15 days. Judge Nadia Camila Tardencilla found the seven men guilty in a decision stating that they had damaged national integrity and propagated fake news to the detriment of the Nicaraguan State and society. The men will be sentenced on 3...

  Nicaragua: 'The Church is being silenced' https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/45353 Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is urgently calling for prayers for Nicaragua amid a dramatic escalation of efforts to silence the Church. The appeal comes after a bishop was arrested last week, which followed the expulsion of the country's Apostolic Nuncio. Regina Lynch, international projects director of ACN, said: "These events represent a further escalation in a spiral of confrontation." Ms Lynch added: "We are witnessing an attempt to silence the Church in Nicaragua. And there is no easy solution. We need to support them as much as possible. We must pray that there may be a peaceful solution and not a further increase in hostilities." Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, who is also Apostolic Administrator of the vacant See of the Diocese of Estelí, was abducted in the early morning on 19th August, along with others including three priests, two seminarians, a deac...

  Every death row prisoner executed in the U.S. in 2022 https://www.newsweek.com/every-death-row-prisoner-executed-2022-1769611

  From hangings to lethal injection — haunting photos show how the death penalty has evolved in America https://news.yahoo.com/haunting-photos-show-death-penalty-114500009.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr via @Yahoo

  Catholic Church in selected African countries Rafał Pokrywiński 2021, Catholic Church in selected African countries. Historical-pastoral perspective https://www.academia.edu/57302344/Catholic_Church_in_selected_African_countries?email_work_card=view-paper Building the Church as Family of God: Evaluation of Small Christian Communities in Eastern Africa Joseph G Healey 2020, SCCs Website Today there are over 180,000 Small Christian Communities (SCCs) in the Catholic Church in the nine AMECEA countries in Eastern Africa.  https://www.academia.edu/9245872/Building_the_Church_as_Family_of_God_Evaluation_of_Small_Christian_Communities_in_Eastern_Africa One Mission Two Churches The Catholic Church in South Africa 1947-1997 Stuart Bate 205 Views 27 Pages 1 File ▾ History of Missions, Catholic Church History “One Mission, Two Churches” In Brain, J https://www.academia.edu/30687724/One_Mission_Two_Churches_The_Catholic_Church_in_South_Africa_1947_1997

The Seven Communist and 36 Islamic Regimes That Most Persecute Christians in 2023 - ZENIT - English : Persecution of Christians “has grown exponentially “ in the last 30 years.