Catholic priests denounce beatings and surveillance by the Nicaraguan government
MEXICO CITY — Police appeared two days after a Catholic cleric at a church near Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, 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 arrived. He asked not to be named for fear of being arrested.“We try to explain that this is just a normal prayer, that it has nothing to do with politics,” the priest said in a video interview. "But they already…
