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Nicaraguan police detain bishop, other priests in raid

A parishioner prays the rosary as she kneels inside the Cathedral in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Nicaraguan police on Friday raided the residence of Matagalpa Bishop Rolando Alvarez, detaining him and several other priests in an escalation of tensions between the Catholic Church and the government of Daniel Oretga. (AP Photo/Inti Ocon) Faithful attend a Mass at the Cathedral in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Nicaraguan police on Friday raided the residence of Matagalpa Bishop Rolando Alvarez, detaining him and several other priests in an escalation of tensions between the Catholic Church and the government of Daniel Oretga. (AP Photo/Inti Ocon) An image of Bishop Rolando Alvarez is pinned to a robe on a statue of Jesus Christ at the Cathedral in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Nicaraguan police on Friday raided Alvarez's residence, detaining him and several other priests in an escalation of tensions between the Catholic Church and the government of Daniel Oretga. (AP Photo/Inti Ocon) Nuns attend a Mass at the Cathedral in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Nicaraguan police on Friday raided the residence of Matagalpa Bishop Rolando Alvarez, detaining him and several other priests in an escalation of tensions between the Catholic Church and the government of Daniel Oretga. (AP Photo/Inti Ocon) A poster featuring Bishop Rolando Alvarez and Pope Francis hangs inside the Cathedral in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. Nicaraguan police on Friday raided Alvarez's residence, detaining him and several other priests in an escalation of tensions between the Catholic Church and the government of Daniel Oretga. (AP Photo/Inti Ocon) FILE - Anti-government demonstrators hold a banner featuring a group of Catholic cardinals including Nicaraguan Leopoldo Brenes, center right, and a quote from John Paul II that reads in Spanish, "The Church is the first to want peace!", during a march supporting the Catholic Church, in Managua, Nicaragua, July 28, 2018. The Nicaraguan Catholic Church has been sympathetic toward protesters opposed to President Daniel Ortega's government. Ortega has responded by accusing some bishops of being part of a plot to overthrow him and calling them “terrorists.” (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File) FILE - Monsignor Rolando Alvarez, bishop of Matagalpa, attends a press conference regarding the Roman Catholic Church's agreeing to act as "mediator and witness" in a national dialogue between members of civil society and the government in Managua, Nicaragua, May 3, 2018. Earlier this month Nicaragua shuttered seven radio stations belonging to the Catholic Church and launched an investigation into Alvarez, accusing him of inciting violent actors “to carry out acts of hate against the population.” (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
Nicaraguan police detain bishop, other priests in raid