A bishop who is an outspoken critic of Nicaragua's government and has received death threats for helping protesters is being transferred to Rome, the Catholic Church said Wednesday.
...Baez said that the US Embassy contacted him in July to warn him they were "certain there was a plan" to kill him.
The 60-year-old bishop was assaulted the same month along with other Catholic leaders when paramilitaries and government supporters broke into the Basilica of San Sebastian in Dirimaba, in the southwest of Nicaragua.
He also added there were "continually drones around" his apartment and he had received "countless" death threats by telephone, forcing him to change his phone number four times in one year.
