Despite protests from the Latin American Church and an appeal from the Vatican for dialogue a understanding, the Nicaraguan government continues to raise tensions with the local clergy. 

Since August 4, President Daniel Ortega's regime has been forbidding Bishop Rolando Alvarez of Matagalpa to leave his rectory, along with a group of five members of the clergy and six lay Catholics. The bishop, who has been accused of promoting subversion against the government, showed on social media that police forces are blocking the diocese’s building.