Nicaragua mulls cutting diplomatic ties with the Vatican

By Agence France-Presse

Mar 14, 2023 12:11 am

MANAGUA: Nicaragua on Sunday said it was considering suspending diplomatic ties with the Vatican after Pope Francis days earlier called the Central American country's government a 'crude dictatorship.'

'Between the Republic of Nicaragua and the Vatican, we propose a suspension of diplomatic relations,' a statement from the Central American nation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, 'given the information that has been divulged by sources apparently close to the Catholic Church.'

PRAYING FOR PEACE An image of Pope Francis is held up among flags of Nicaragua during an open-air Mass celebrated amid demands to end the violence in the country outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in the capital Managua on April 28, 2018. AFP FILE PHOTO

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