Nicaragua, the Pope received the president of the bishops Herrera Gutiérrez in the Vatican

Pope Leo The hearing is among the Pontiff's last public commitments before the operation scheduled for tomorrow. The Holy See confirmed the meeting in the official bulletin, without specifying the topics addressed.

According to researcher Martha Patricia Molina, an expert on the religious situation in the Central American country, the meeting represents an opportunity to directly inform the Pope about the persecutions against the Catholic Church. Herrera was in Rome for a meeting of the presidents of the episcopal conferences that began on October 7. Between April 2018 and July 2025, according to a report by Molina, over 1,010 attacks against the Church in Nicaragua were documented, including arbitrary arrests, expulsions of religious people, confiscations of ecclesiastical assets and restrictions on public celebrations.