U.S. officials are stepping in, demanding a Nicaraguan bishop and other imprisoned Catholic leaders there be released.
The statement by the Department of State said leaders like Bishop Rolando Álvarez are being “
unjustly detained.”
Bishop Álvarez has been in captivity for more than 500 days, convicted last year of treason by the regime of President Daniel Ortega.
Bishop Álvarez is one of more than a dozen Catholics currently facing persecution in Nicaragua.
John Lavenburg, the National Correspondent for The Tablet and Crux, joins Currents News to talk more about it.