In a moving letter, Pope Francis expressed his closeness with the people of Nicaragua as Central American bishops called for ...

Catholics exiled from Nicaragua are expressing their gratitude for the recent letter of encouragement Pope Francis sent to ...

Pope Francis has written a moving letter to Catholics in Nicaragua to express his closeness, affection, and incessant prayer.

Preachers must preach an idea, a feeling, and a call to action. Beyond eight minutes the preaching starts to fade, it is not ...

Pope Francis breaks the silence on Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega, who has been fiercely persecuting the Catholic Church for ...

Often homilies are so long, 20 or 30 minutes, that people will go outside to smoke a cigarette and come back, the pope said.

In an unusual gesture, Pope Francis alluded during the New Year’s Day Mass to the detention of priests and seminarians in Nicaragua, where the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has ...

Nicaragua under Ortega/Murillo ... and which have and apply free interpretations of liberal democracy. Pope Francis, an increasingly controversial figure for traditional Catholics is also ...

Blinken saw Francis before the pope held his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square ... and jointly condemned political repression in Nicaragua and Venezuela, the spokesperson added. The Vatican said ...

Nicaragua has not had an ambassador to the ... In an interview published Friday in Buenos Aires' La Nación, Pope Francis also insisted that “gender ideology” was among the “most dangerous ...