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Nicaraguan police burst into the Matagalpa diocesan headquarters in the early hours of Friday morning and removed an outspoken bishop who had been under house arrest for more than two weeks. Police raided the curia before dawn on 19 August and took Bishop Rolando Álvarez, according to a social media statement from the Diocese of Matagalpa. It said Bishop Álvarez’s whereabouts are unknown.