MASAYA, Nicaragua — There was something about the woman who turned up at St. Michael the Archangel church in this bustling market town one recent day. She was tall, about 40, nicely dressed in ...

Reporting from Masaya, Nicaragua — The barricades have come ... Down the street from the jail, the church of Saint Miguel remained shuttered on a recent Sunday. The parish priest here became ...

Father Edwin Roman attempts to convince the police to allow relatives of imprisoned and dead anti-government demonstrators to enter the San Miguel Arcangel Church in Masaya, Nicaragua, Nov. 14 ...

The clash, which left the Monimbo area of Masaya city in western Nicaragua littered with shell ... had sought refuge inside a Roman Catholic church. At least one of them died as the church was ...

Edwin Roman Calderon stands outside his church in Masaya, Nicaragua, where he sheltered bleeding anti-government protesters last year after police and paramilitary gunmen attacked them during a ...

MASAYA, Nicaragua — In 1979 ... and prevent what many feared would turn into a massacre. The Catholic Church in Nicaragua sent a delegation of bishops, headed by Managua’s archbishop, Cardinal ...

Nicaragua saw another weekend of deadly violence, as forces in support of President Daniel Ortega besieged student protesters in a church and ... people in the city of Masaya and communities ...

Amid continued unrest in Nicaragua, Church leaders traveled to the city of Masaya Thursday to pray and appeal for peace. Protests began April 18 after Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announced ...

The operation by police and paramilitaries targeted the city of Masaya ... for 20 hours in a parish church in Managua next to the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN), were finally ...

Supported by By Frances Robles Photographs by Cesar Rodriguez MASAYA, Nicaragua — Diana Lacayo never imagined that a hunger strike held in a church would turn into a nine-day siege, with the ...