Author: Mario Alexis Portella

Iranians went to the polls on Friday to elect a new president as the Islamic Republic of Iran confronts challenges from a cratering economy to heightened tensions with its regional...

A young man accused of taking part in anti-government riots when he was a teenager has been beheaded in Saudi Arabia, despite a moratorium on the death penalty for minors....

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that a refugee camp set up to shelter women and children after the defeat of Islamic State has instead turned into a mini-caliphate...

In a historic moment, last month a UN investigation team known as UNITAD declared that the Islamic State committed genocide against Yazidis. The announcement comes after years of advocacy by...

While anti-semitic violence and harassment continues to rise since the fighting between Israel and Hamas began last month—as of last month approximately 250 such incidents in the United States have been...

It has been nearly one year since the free world sadly witnessed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) forces storm into Hong Kong arresting human rights activists, consequently bringing democracy in...

A so-called radicalized French ex-prisoner on a watch list of potential terrorist threats stabbed a policewoman inside her station in western France last Friday before being killed in a shoot-out...

Last Thursday Fulani herdsmen killed the wife and nephew of a Christian in Plateau state, Nigeria in an attack on their home. Jeffrey Moses, 26, said he and his wife,...

The New York Times published an article on Monday entitled “In Taliban-Controlled Areas, Girls Are Fleeing for One Thing: an Education” offering a glimpse in Afghanistan’s northwest region in which...

While the world seems to have stopped at the deadly conflict between the State of Israel and the Palestinians, specifically speaking the terrorist organization of Hamas, hardly any mention has...

French authorities are investigating after a police officer was stabbed by a woman in Bordeaux on Monday. Prosecutors say the woman “threw herself” at the official while “armed with knives”...

At least 130 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian health ministry, after Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement)—a Sunni-Islamic militant...

Al Jazeera recently posted online a report entitled “Muslim women are reviving forgotten tradition of Quran recitation” showing how in certain Islamic-majority countries, such as Algeria, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia and...

Breitbart reported on Tuesday that a grooming gang survivor has revealed that she was sexually abused by hundreds of Pakistani Muslims for years, but despite reporting her abusers to the...

Christian Today (CT) reported on Thursday that according to Morning Star News there was another massacre of Nigerian Christians by Muslims, this time in Abagena, Benue State (north-central Nigeria). What...

This past March in Uganda, an imam ordered the rape of three Christian girls after a mosque leaders’ wife was baptized into the Christian faith. In a clear act of retribution, the...

“We have won the war and America has lost,” were the words echoed by Haji Hekmat, a local mayor for Afghanistan’s Islamist army and shadow government, the Taliban after President...

In an April 1 video statement — this was not an April Fools’ joke — the U.S. State Department proclaimed the month of April as Arab American Heritage Month, reflecting...

While President Joe Biden expressed his sorrow over the death of a Capitol Hill police officer after last week’s attack at the Capitol Friday, which killed a Capitol police officer...

The Taliban has been quite audacious of having coerced its main 20-year-old opponent, the U.S., into signing a deal last year — Doha Agreement — that would require the complete...

While the West is preoccupied with fighting hate speech, Islamophobia, and far-right supremacist groups, it seems to have willfully ignored the cultivation of Muslim hate speech and supremacist attitudes toward...

Turkey announced on Saturday that it has pulled out from a landmark European treaty protecting women from violence. In a move that will please Muslim conservatives, Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

Many Christians today have been quite perplexed by the Inter-religious meetings promoted by Pope Francis. And his “Abrahamic” gathering during his visit to Iraq last week, in which not a...

The Biden administration on Thursday rescinded former President Donald Trump’s restoration of U.N. sanctions on Iran, an announcement that could help Washington move toward rejoining the Joint Comprehensive Plan of...

Last week in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad a female doctor was killed in a bomb blast just days after three female media workers were shot dead in the...

U.S. President Joe Biden announced Friday his “intent to nominate” Rashad Hussain as the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, the first Muslim to occupy the post. Under the Obama administration...

United States intelligence agencies concluded that Jamal Khashoggi was killed by a Saudi hit squad operating under the command of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) — Saudi Arabia’s...

The Vatican recently announced that it will organize online conferences promoting the Virgin Mary as ‘model for faith’ for both Christianity and Islam.  Organized by the by the Pontifical Academy...

The complex and appalling stream of reports describing Muslim women being punished under sharia law for everything from wearing pants to not having sex with their husbands to being raped...

Not too long ago I was confronted by someone on one of my previous articles Fighting Child Slavery in the Islamic World in that Christians equally approved the practice of...

Amid a surge in high-profile assassinations and violent attacks, President Joe Biden is indicating he will keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan past a May withdrawal deadline laid out in the...

While so many of us have heard of child marriages in the Muslim world where sharia law prevails, one young heroine has been fighting for their rights.  Nada al-Hadal, the...

There has been a push under the Biden administration to work with reformed Muslims in order to combat Islamic radicalism. The dilemma here, as C. Holland Taylor, the chairman and...

Agenzia Fides, the information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies, reported on January 18, that the  body of a Catholic priest, Fr. John Gbakaan, was discovered in Nigeria on Saturday,...

Newly inaugurated President Joe Biden with the stroke of a pen annulled former President Donald Trump’s the 90-Day Travel Ban of March 6, 2017, as “inconsistent with American values.” Biden’s...

The Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens and of all Greece Ieronymos, during an interview last week said that Islam was not a religion but a political party. “They are the...

A small girl, used by the terrorist group Boko Haram, blew herself up in the middle of a crowded park in northern Cameroon, killing at least 15 people last Friday...

As Joe Biden comes even closer to being inaugurated at the 46th U.S. President of the United States, many are wondering if ( and how) he would rejoin the Iran...

Palestinian Christian Bishara Bahbah, who served as Yasser Arafat’s advisor on international affairs, posted on his blog “A Christmas message to Hamas.” He stated how the Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist and militant...

In mid-December, the top U.S. military official, Army General Mark A. Milley,chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held unannounced talks with Taliban peace negotiators in Qatar to urge a...