Author: Mario Alexis Portella

On 8 December, the Solemnity the Immaculate Conception, it was reported that a cardinal archbishop stated: ‘It is important in the context of respect for the rights of the person and...

In what appears to be a minor victory for the Iranian women, on Saturday Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said the Islamic Republic has disbanded the ‘morality police’, which, he stressed,...

This past Saturday in my residential city of Florence, Italy, I took part of an organised march to protest against the hostilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Indeed, it...

US President Joe Biden said last week during a wide-ranging campaign speech in California vowed to liberate Iranians from their draconian regime. Indications were that the two-month-long demonstrations to oust the government...

When we hear of acts of violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories, what automatically comes to mind is the usual religious Jewish-Muslim conflict. Unfortunately, many are unaware of indigenous...

On 7 October, the Catholic Church celebrated the Feast of the Holy Rosary. Originally called Our Lady of Victory, it was instituted by Pope St Pius V who attributed Christian victory...

It has been approximately three weeks since a twenty-two-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini or Zhina Amini, died in a Tehran hospital after she was arrested and beaten by...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has backed allowing volunteers, including from abroad, to help pro-Moscow separatists fighting in Ukraine’s Donbas region, more than two weeks after he sent thousands of Russian...

Christian persecution in the Islamic world, as well as in communist China and North Korea, has gotten worse. However, hate crimes against those who profess to be follower os Jesus...

Lebanon remains on the brink of collapse politically, socially and economically. This does not bode well for Israel, and Jerusalem has reached out repeatedly with offers to assist its neighbor to the...

On Friday, the Biden administration restored some sanctions relief to Iran’s atomic program as world powers and the Islamic Republic continue talks aimed at salvaging the languishing agreement.  U.S. Secretary...

The New York Times recently published an article titled “The 1619 Project and the Long Battle Over U.S. History” in which Jake Silverstein, commenting on Nikole Hannah-Jones book “The 1619...

“Imagine putting recording devices in the confessional in a Catholic church? Imagine that they can do this in a place that is meant to be safe … people trust their...

It has been two years since ISIS leader and self-proclaimed (universal) calif Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi committed suicide in order to avoid being captured or killed by U.S. Special Operations forces...

Last week in Afghanistan the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan brought together families of suicide bombers at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, praising the deaths of their children and siblings in...

Today October 7 marks the 450th anniversary of the institution of the Feast of the Holy Rosary. Originally called “Our Lady of Victory,” Pope St. Pius V in 1571, wanted...

It has been over two weeks since Harriet Namuganza, an 83-year-old Christian widow in eastern Uganda was hospitalized after being physically beating by Islamic jihadists; one of the attackers posed...

Joe Biden’s on Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly was his first as president. In it he stated: “We’ve ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan. And as we close...

It has been over a month since the U.S. tumultuous. Since then the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has taken steps to both fill in the political vacuum in Afghanistan and...

One of the excuses President Joe Biden presented for his surrender to the Taliban (or Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan) during the chaotic and bloody evacuation of American citizens was that...

In recent days, some Republican members of Congress have expressed concerns that the Biden administration allowed Afghans with criminal records or ties to terror groups to be evacuated while thousands...

President Joe Biden publicly announced the evacuation of U.S. citizens and Afghan allies as if it were a triumph, and that his Administration had planned for such a contingency in...

On August 24, the special session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held a special session on Afghanistan and remarkably failed to condemn the Taliban (Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan),...

The United States stated that the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K) was responsible for the deadly attacks outside Kabul airport that killed at least 72 Afghans and 13...

As the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, known as the Taliban, continues its onslaught all the way to the Afghan capital of Kabul, the civilized world — not the Muslim countries...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a video conference mentioned that Americans cannot be trusted, and that they are liars and violators of promises. He said that the Iranians...

Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday that Afghanistan’s government is arming local groups as part of a three-phase plan to push back the Taliban offensive, the Afghan interior minister General Abdul...

This week marks the beginning of another new (Islamic) Hijri year for Muslims throughout the world. The date marking the new Hijri year is determined by various techniques — including...

August 6, the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ, when according to the gospels (Matthew 17:1–8, Mark 9:2–8, Luke 9:28–36): “And He [Jesus] was transfigured...

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...

Saudi Arabia reopened its borders on Sunday for the first time in a year and half after imposing restrictions prior to start of the Covid-19 outbreak. As part of the...

It has been practically four months since the face-to-face meeting between Pope Francis and the Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani in Iraq. The Pope’s visit to Iraq, according to the Chaldean Patriarch,...

The Blaze reported Wednesday that Collin County, Texas, District Judge Andrea Thompson “effectively denied [in March] a U.S. citizen,” a Muslim woman named Mariam Ayad, “her constitutionally protected due process rights,...

Eleven men and women from around France were found guilty on Wednesday of using the internet to harass a teenager who became the focus of heated debates about free speech...

The Taliban, or as the jihadists call themselves the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), has “prevailed” in its battle with the West in Afghanistan, said General Lord Dannatt, the former...

The U. S. State Department on Thursday added Turkey to a list of countries that are implicated in the use of child soldiers over the past year, placing a NATO...

Reuters recently reported that YouTube had blocked videos posted by Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights’ channel, a human rights group in the Republic of Kazakhstan —  the largest country in Central...

Last week in the German town of Wurzburg a 24-year-old Somali man immigrant knifed three people to death and wounded six more in a street rampage as he yelled “Allahu...

The White House released this month a National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, a step welcomed by numerous of counter terrorism and countering violent extremism professionals who have long been...

Afghan nationals who risked their lives to work with the U.S. government over the 20-year war are pleading with the Biden administration to get them and their families out of...