Nicaragua: Five priests arrested in 2 days in escalating crackdown on Catholic Church

 Five priests have been arrested over the past 48 hours by the authorities in Managua, Vatican News reported. Reports on the situation in Nicaragua surfaced through social media posts by exiled lawyer Martha Patricia Molina, raising further alarm at the United Nations. The list of detained priests in Nicaragua is expanding, according to Molina’s updates […]

Nicaragua snaps ties with Taiwan, establishes diplomatic relations with China

China has established diplomatic relations with Nicaragua after the latter cut ties with Taiwan and endorsed the ‘One China Policy’, Chinese state media reported. The two countries signed a communique on the establishment of ties in the early hours of Friday in the Chinese city of Tianjin, Sputnik reported citing Chinese Central Television. On Thursday, Nicaragua Foreign Minister Denis […]

Nicaragua to start production of Russia’s CoviVac vaccine

The Mechnikov Institute of Biotechnology in Nicaragua will produce the Russian vaccine against COVID-19, CoviVac, trials have already begun, Laureano Ortega Murillo, Nicaraguan presidential adviser on investment, trade and cooperation, said during the 6th congress of Russian and Nicaraguan pharmaceutical companies. “Our government, thanks to efforts with the fraternal Russian Federation, institutions and ministries, is […]