A court in Nicaragua sentenced a Roman Catholic bishop to more than 26 years in prison for alleged treason after he refused to be exiled to the United States. Rolando Alvarez, who serves as bishop of ...

Ihar Losik — a young journalist, father, and Catholic who had been imprisoned under harsh conditions since 2020 for reporting on the Belarusian regime for a U.S.-funded news outlet — has been freed ...

MANAGUA (Reuters) -A Nicaraguan court sentenced Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez to more than 26 years in prison on Friday, a day after the cleric and critic of President Daniel Ortega declined to be ...

HALLOWELL — All are welcome to learn more about prison ministry in the Diocese of Portland on Friday, June 9, at the annual Catholic prison ministry gathering in the hall of Sacred Heart Church on 7 ...

A priest prays with a death-row inmate in 2008 at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Ind. There are more than 30 Catholic organizations providing some kind of prison ministry in the United States.