Nicaragua’s Imprisoned Bp Alvarez Echoes Cdl Pell: ‘what sustained me was prayer’
Alvarez described is as “a supernatural action of God."


In a groundbreaking interview, Bishop Rolando Alvarez attested to the power of prayer which sustained him and gave him hope, during the year he spent in a Nicaraguan jail for criticizing the regime’s abuses of human rights and religious persecution. “I always thought and believed in my freedom,” said Bishop Alvarez, speaking to EWTN last month, marking a full year after his release from…