Managua (AFP) – Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega calls the Catholic Church a “perfect dictatorship” for not allowing members to elect the pope and other authority figures. The Catholic Church in Nicaragua has been under increasing government pressure since Ortega accused it of backing the protests against his government in 2018. A crackdown against the demonstrators left hundreds dead.
After Pope outreach, Nicaragua’s Ortega calls Church a ‘dictatorship’
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