A 4 January 2024 press statement from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, issued the same day the United States Department of State designated Nicaragua a Country of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act. USCIRF Vice Chair Frederick A. Davie condemned the Ortega Murillo government's continued crackdown on members of the Catholic Church for speaking out about religious freedom and human rights violations in the country, naming the cancellation of Catholic universities and charities' legal status, seizure of their property, and arbitrary expulsion of priests and nuns.
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Reliability TierReliability tier 1: an official statement from a United States federal government commission, a primary institutional record of its own position issued the same day the State Department made its own designation. No stable url could be confirmed at the time of this record, a gap named here rather than guessed at. NotesA United States federal commission's own contemporaneous statement, issued the same day as an official State Department designation it references directly, the same reliability class as USCIRF's other reports already cited on this axis. USCIRF is a body of the country whose government funds it and advises United States foreign policy, worth naming even though its finding here, a documented pattern of clergy expulsion and institutional seizure, is not seriously disputed by independent Catholic and secular press covering the same events. 1 Citation
AuthorUnited States Commission on International Religious Freedom 1 PublisherUnited States Commission on International Religious Freedom 1 Publication Year Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Nicaragua directly: "States Department of State designated Nicaragua a Country of Particular Concern under the International Religious Freedom Act."
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- Religious Events, 11 claims: 9 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Denominations, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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