Catholic clergy report surveillance, beatings amid Nicaragua's crackdown


FILE PHOTO: A parishioner reacts during a mass at Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua August 21, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a church near the Nicaraguan capital Managua delivered a Sunday sermon in May that included a prayer "for our priests."

The officers played an audio clip of the prayer and warned: These kinds of things are dangerous, recalled a priest who was at Sunday services and when the police officers arrived. He asked not to be identified for fear of arrest.

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