Nicaragua calls itself a nation founded upon Christianity and socialism… yet some of its most respected Christian leaders have been arrested, exiled, stripped of citizenship, or forced to worship behind closed doors.

In this episode of Voices of Life, Pastor David explores one of the most complex and consequential confrontations in the Western Hemisphere: the Ortega‑Murillo government’s tightening control over religious institutions — Catholic, Protestant, evangelical, and Indigenous.

This episode asks a central question: When a government decides that an independent church has become a political threat… what happens next?

Drawing from documented reports by the Inter‑American Commission on Human Rights, USCIRF, the U.S. State Department, Vatican News, AP News, and others, Episode 7 trac ...