(Nicole Winfield and Gabriela Selser, AP) The Vatican said
Saturday it had closed its embassy in Nicaragua after the country’s
government proposed suspending diplomatic relations, the latest episode
in a yearslong crackdown on the Catholic Church by the administration of
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. The
Vatican’s representative to Managua, Monsignor Marcel Diouf, also left
the country Friday, bound for Costa Rica, a Vatican official said,
speaking on condition of anonymity. (...)
