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Nicaragua jails another bishop as crackdown intensifies
December 21, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Nicaraguan police arrested and jailed another bishop on December 20.
Bishop Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega of Siuna, 53, was arrested for “the crime of praying for his fellow detained bishop, Rolando Álvarez,” the Reuters news agency reported.
Ordained to the priesthood in 2003, Mora was appointed a bishop in 2021.
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