March 11, 2023

FILE - Bishop Cesar Bosco Vivas Robelo, left, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, center, and Bishop Rolando Alvarez, pray at the end of the third day of the national dialogue in Managua, Nicaragua, May 21, 2018. President Daniel Ortega initially asked the Catholic Church to play a role as a mediator as political tensions rose, but the first round of dialogue didn’t last long. After priests sheltered demonstrators inside their parishes and expressed concern about excessive use of force, Ortega targeted them as “terrorists” who backed opposition efforts to undermine or overthrow him. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)