https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=P4UEOUzPtM4&feature=youtu.be

Bianca Jagger has released a film in which she implores Pope Francis to speak out about the persecution of the Catholic Church in her native Nicaragua.

Ms Jagger, a human rights defender, said in the film that bishops, priests and nuns have been targeted in an “unholy war” by Marxist President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosarillo Murillo.

She said she is particularly concerned about the treatment of Bishop Rolando José Álvarez of Matagalpa, an outspoken critic of human rights abuses of the regime, who has spent more than three months in captivity and was recently hurt in a fall.