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David Agren writes for OSV News from Mexico City.

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Nicaraguan Co-Presidents Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, who are husband and wife, greet supporters during the opening ceremony of a highway overpass in Managua March 21, 2019. Nicaragua’s ruling Sandinista regime seized a prominent Catholic school Aug. 12, 2025, claiming without proof that it had operated a "torture" center during past protests. The government renamed the school for a slain partisan, "Héroe Bismarck Martínez." (OSV News photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)

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Nicaraguan governor seizes Catholic school amid claims it is site of past crimes

David Agren|Aug 14, 2025|3 Min Read

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele takes part in a meeting at the Presidential House in San Salvador May 3, 2021. (OSV News photo/Secretaria de Prensa de La Presidencia handout via Reuters)

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Salvadoran Catholic leaders speaking out more amid worries over democratic erosion

David Agren|Aug 11, 2025|4 Min Read

Thousands of people gather for Mass outside the Cathedral of Santa Maria de Chiclayo in Peru May 10, 2025, celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV, who was bishop of Chiclayo between 2015 and 2023. He was elected pope at the Vatican May 8, becoming the first American pontiff in history. (OSV News photo/David Agren)

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Faithful of Peru diocese celebrate papal election of man they regard as one of their own

David Agren|May 12, 2025|5 Min Read

Women pray inside Buenos Aires' Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 21, 2025, after the death of Pope Francis was announced by the Vatican. Pope Francis, formerly Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, died April 21 at age 88. (OSV News photo/Agustin Marcarian, Reuters)

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Native Argentina says goodbye to Pope Francis

David Agren|Apr 21, 2025|6 Min Read

Nicaraguan Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes of Managua blesses people raising their palm fronds during Palm Sunday Mass March 24, 2024, in Managua. (OSV News photo/Maynor Valenzuela, Reuters)

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Nicaragua cracks down further on church during Holy Week

David Agren|Apr 14, 2025|4 Min Read

Candles are seen on the altar at the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Mexico City March 23, 2025, in memory of eight young people shot dead outside a church in Salamanca, in western Guanajuato state, on March 16. (OSV News/courtesy courtesy Father Jorge Atilano)

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Church urges protection of young after attack on Mexican youth group

David Agren|Mar 24, 2025|4 Min Read

A a file photo in Monterrey, Mexico, shows a candle with an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and pairs of shoes with a name tag of its owner, a victim of the drug war. In a statement shared March 12, 2025 the Mexican bishops' conference expressed outrage over the discovery of an extermination camp operated by a drug cartel, calling it "one of the cruelest expressions of evil and human misery that we've seen in the country," and alleging such sites exist in other parts of Mexico. (OSV News photo/Daniel Becerril, Reuters)

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Mexican Catholics urge officials to 'listen to victims' amid grisly discovery of mass graves

David Agren|Mar 17, 2025|4 Min Read

Margelis Tinoco, a migrant from Colombia, reacts after receiving news that her U.S. Customs and Border Protection's smartphone application CBP One was cancelled at the Paso del Norte International border bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Jan.20, 2025, on Inauguration Day, when Donald Trump was sworn in for his second presidential term. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)

Catholic leaders voice support for migrants as Trump deportation plans loom

David Agren|Jan 20, 2025|6 Min Read

Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, exiled to Rome Jan. 14, celebrates the centenary of his diocese in the province of Seville, Spain, where many of his priests and seminarians have found a new home. Bishop Álvarez is seen offering his pectoral cross to Our Lady of Sorrows at Our Lady of the Orchards Church in Puebla de los Infantes Dec. 19, 2024, in gratitude "for these 100 years of canonical foundation of my blessed and beloved" Matagalpa Diocese. (OSV News/courtesy Eric Diaz, Alfa y Omega)

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Bishop Álvarez gives first interview since exile as Nicaragua cancels another Catholic group

David Agren|Jan 17, 2025|4 Min Read

A Venezuelan opposition supporter holds a drawing depicting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Jan. 9, 2025, ahead of Maduro's Jan. 10 inauguration for a third term. (OSV News photo/Tomas Cuesta, Reuters)

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Bishops call for Venezuelan vote to be respected

David Agren|Jan 10, 2025|4 Min Read

Archbishop José Escobar Alas of San Salvador is pictured in Washington April 13, 2018. Archbishop Escobar told reporters at a Dec. 1. 2024, news conference that President Nayib Bukele's nascent enthusiasm for gold mining would "cause grave, irrevocable damage to people's lives and health and that doesn't have a price." (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

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El Salvador archbishop blasts mining law change, says it will cause 'irrevocable damage'

David Agren|Dec 3, 2024|3 Min Read

A woman holds a crucifix as she takes part in a protest outside the Nicaraguan Embassy in Mexico City Aug. 16, 2022, to demand respect for religious freedom and an end to the persecution against the church and against the opponents of the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. (OSV News photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters)

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Faith, hope 'work miracles,' pope tells people of Nicaragua ahead of Immaculate Conception

David Agren|Dec 2, 2024|5 Min Read

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