Nicaraguan police have banned a Catholic procession and pilgrimage in the capital of Managua on Saturday, citing internal security reasons, the archdiocese said on Friday as the crackdown on the Church intensifies.
In response, the archdiocese called for the country's faithful to spend Friday in prayer and fasting and to attend mass at the Managua cathedral on Saturday, skipping the procession meant to be a closing ceremony for the country's Marian Congress and a send off for the Portuguese statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
