A 16 February 2026 ACI Prensa report on the expulsion of a priest from the Diocese of Leon, citing exiled researcher Martha Patricia Molina's running tally that 309 priests and religious sisters have now been exiled, expelled or denied re-entry to Nicaragua since 2018, more than 95 percent of them Nicaraguan nationals. Molina publishes her count in an ongoing report titled Nicaragua: Una Iglesia perseguida (Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church).
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AuthorACI Prensa staff, citing researcher Martha Patricia Molina 1 Publication Year URLhttps://www.aciprensa.com/noticias/122185/dictadura-de-nicaragua-expulsa-a-sacerdote-de-la-diocesis-de-leon-ya-son-309-los-religiosos-forzados-a-salir-del-pais 1 Assessment
Reliability TierACI Prensa is a mainstream Catholic news wire, the Spanish language sister service of Catholic News Agency, with ordinary editorial standards. The 309 figure it reports is credited to exiled researcher Martha Patricia Molina's own running tracker, an interested party's count rather than an independent government or academic tally, and the same figure was independently corroborated by two other outlets, El Debate and Infobae, reporting it the same week. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Nicaragua directly: "exiled, expelled or denied re-entry to Nicaragua since 2018, more than 95 percent of them Nicaraguan nationals."
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