Imprisoned Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez appeared unexpectedly on Nicaraguan television March 24.
Bishop Álvarez proved alive as he appears in staged TV interview
Ukrainian archdiocese demands release of priests taken by Russian troops
In a Nov. 25 statement, it said Father Ivan Levitsky, a hieromonk and rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, and Father Bohdan Geleta, who works at the church, were detained by Russian troops Nov. 16, and the church was illegally searched the following day.
Exhibit recalls Catholic journalists’ courage in Lithuania under Soviets
During the Soviet occupation of Lithuania from 1972 to 1989, the Chronicle was an underground publication that was smuggled out of the country and sent to New York to be translated and disseminated to a wider audience.