Nicaraguan clergy face threats after providing refuge for protesters fleeing gunfire:

For months, Father Jose Alberto Idiaquez has received threats on Twitter, on WhatsApp and in phone calls. The aggressors say that the Jesuit university he runs in Nicaragua's capital supports a coup against the government and that he has been inciting his students to protest.

On any given day, dozens - and sometimes hundreds - of armed police and paramilitary surround Universidad Centroamericana in Managua. They have been deployed to intimidate him and others, said Idiaquez.

Idiaquez has loudly condemned longtime President Daniel Ortega's violent crackdown against a civil uprising that began last April and has led to more than 300 deaths and 2,000 injuries, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, mostly at the hands of national police and paramilitary gunmen. Many of Idiaquez's students are opposition activists, and he has participated in marches himself and offered the campus as