Police in Nicaragua have arrested and allegedly beaten a Catholic bishop after he prayed in public for a brother bishop sentenced to life in jail earlier this year.
Bishop Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega of Siuna was snatched this week by police after he celebrated a Mass in Matagalpa and requested prayers for Bishop Rolando Álvarez, the imprisoned ordinary of the Matagalpa diocese.
His intervention came amid grave concerns over the failing health of Bishop Álvarez, who in February was sentenced to 26 years in prison for refusing to go into exile in the United States with 222 political prisoners.
