Nicaragua has become one of the 20 most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to the International Christian Concern's (ICC) Global Religious Persecution Index. The regime's crackdown on religious groups is not an isolated campaign—it mirrors a broader attack on civil liberties.
"As is the case in many communist countries, Nicaragua has come to view religion as an enemy of the state," the ICC notes in its report. "[President Daniel] Ortega has led the country's new antagonism toward the Church, which he sees as subversive to his claim to absolute power."
