The Ortega government has ordered clergy in the Diocese of León not to leave their parishes to carry out any pastoral activity, including preaching. LEÓN, Nicaragua (LifeSiteNews) — Nicaragua’s communist government has banned clergy of the Diocese of León from conducting pastoral visits to laypeople’s homes, in the latest of a series of crackdowns on the Catholic Church in the country. The verbal orders came ahead of a parish mission planned for January 24 in the Diocese of León, which was to involve traditional door-to-door visits. The participation of some priests in protests against the Ortega regime in 2018 is said to have prompted the dictator to make the Catholic Church his regime’s number one enemy. The idea of people visiting one another and sharing a message terrifies Ortega and Murillo,” Nicaraguan political analyst Enrique Sáenz told Crux.