It’s Tuesday, June 4th, A.D. 2024,. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Kevin Swanson
What did Malaysian government do with Pastor Raymond Koh?
The American Center for Law and Justice has issued a petition on the social media site X demanding answers from the Malaysian government on Pastor Raymond Koh’s whereabouts. The petition has almost 30,000 signatures.
The petition states that “Pastor Raymond Koh has been missing for [seven] years in Malaysia [and] the Malaysian government refuses to provide answers.”
Koh ran a non-profit group working with HIV/AIDS patients, people with an addiction, and other individuals in need of help.
75-year-old pro-lifer given 2-year prison sentence
Paulette Harlow is 75 years old and she is the ninth and final pro-life advocate to be sentenced for violating the Freedom of Access to Abortion Clinics Entrances Act at the Washington Surgi-Clinic in 2020.
A grandmother, and mother of six — including four adopted children, Harlow received a 24-month sentence on May 31st from Judge Colleen Kotelly. However, in the final analysis, God will be the Judge.
Proverbs 18:5 reminds us that “It is not good to show partiality to the wicked or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.”
Mexico’s new pro-abortion, pro-homosexual secular president
Mexico has elected its first female president.
Claudia Sheinbaum won the election with 59% of the vote. Raised as a secular Jew, Sheinbaum is outspoken about her pro-abortion and pro-homosexual positions.
Mexico’s Supreme Court legalized abortion last September. Since 1990, over 60 nations have liberalized their abortion laws.
Only the United States, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Poland have slowed the legalization of abortion in recent years.
Sheinbaum’s election makes for the 54th election of a female head of state over the last 10 years. There were nine female heads of state elected during the 1980s, and five in the 1970s.
Abortion rates are up worldwide
Abortion rates are up in the U.S. and other nations around the world.
Scotland, for, example reports the number of abortions up 53% over the last decade. This is largely due to the increase access to the Kill Pill program. Abortions by the abortion pill have increased from 9,600 per year to 17,900 per year over the last decade. And home-based abortions in Scotland have doubled from 5,100 to 10,500 per year since 2020.
Meanwhile, surgical abortions have decreased from 2,300 to 350 per year over the last decade.
Let us all remember that “there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.” (Hebrews 4:13)
India’s national elections unlikely to help Christians
India is conducting national elections today.
As they face rising persecution at the hands of fundamentalist Hindus, India’s Christians throughout the country are hoping for some respite or help from the national government. However, current polls point to another win for the Bharatiya Janata Party.
One million African Methodists walk away from denomination
The Côte d’Ivoire Conference of the United Methodists, based in West Africa, has voted to leave the United Methodist Church — after the U.S.-based denomination voted to approve the ordination of pastors who live out sinful, homosexual lifestyles.
The “Ivory Coast” Methodists make up about one million members, one of the largest regional church bodies in the world.
Korean pastors eager to sever ties with U.S. Methodists
Also, an assembly of Korean Methodist pastors have met in mid-May to discuss a severance of relationships with the U.S. United Methodist Church.
The Korean General Assembly of Methodist Churches has already announced plans to ”solidify our traditional position and Bible-centered faith for its own ministry and mission direction.”
In 3 days, Americans gave $200 million to Trump’s campaign
Americans responded to former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict with massive fund raising for the Trump for President campaign.
Eric Trump, his son, told Fox News Sunday, the campaign has raised $200 million within three days, $70 million of which came from small donors.
Listen.
ERIC TRUMP: “They’re coming out of the woodwork and they want to support a guy that they just believe is getting bamboozled by a system. We saw it with Impeachment One. We saw it with Impeachment Two.
“We see it where they weaponized every liberal [District Attorney] and [Attorney General] across the country with one intent: to take him down, to slander him, to ruin his reputation, to try and divide his family, to try and bankrupt him, to throw him in jail. And America sees through it. They know exactly what’s going on.”
Meanwhile, by comparison, the Biden campaign has reportedly raised $104 million since the beginning of the year.
Thailand officials eager to pass homosexual faux-marriage bill
Thailand’s prime minister attended the Pride Festivities in celebration of sexual perversions over the weekend in Bangkok.
Srettha Thavisin pledged his government’s support for the “homosexual faux-marriage” bill which was passed through the legislature by a vote of 400 to 10 back in March.
Sadly, Thailand legalized abortion in 2019, and extended the legalization of abortion to the 20th week of the child’s life in 2022.
Plus, Thailand has long been known as the “global capital” of prostitution and the child sex trade. Thailand will join Taiwan as the only two Asian nations embracing homosexual faux-marriage.
China landed spacecraft on far side of moon
In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth.
Six thousand years later, China has landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon — the only nation to have accomplished the feat so far.
The Chinese space program hopes to collect rocks for analysis on the lunar south pole.
Worldview listeners in Ohio and Pennsylvania weigh in
In response to my invitation for listeners to write me at Adam@TheWorldview.com about what our newscast means to them, Connie in Blanchester, Ohio wrote, “I depend on your broadcast to supply me with truthful news. Also, the Christian updates are wonderful. I am truly the widow with two mites. So, that is what I am sending.”
And Manny and Denise in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania wrote, “We have been listeners to The Worldview for a long time and a fan of Adam for many years. We are displaced Texans living in Pennsylvania and hearing Adam’s broadcast every day brings us a little bit of home to Pennsylvania. We love the newscast as he condenses a large amount of data into five minutes. Thanks Adam for living in your gifting.”
15 Worldview listeners gave $1,480
Toward out Friday, June 7th goal of raising $28,550 to help keep the newscast on the air, 15 Worldview listeners stepped up to the plate.
Our thanks to Mark in Newark, Ohio who gave $10, Connie in Blanchester, Ohio who gave $20, as well as Ashlyn in Richmond, Kentucky, Lorena in Selma, Texas, Paul in Brush, Colorado, and Angela in Richmond Hill, Ontaria Canada – each of whom gave $25.
We appreciate David in Houston and Myron in Trinity, Alabama – both of whom gave $50 as well as Stuart in Zillah, Washington, Chris in Bloomfield, Kentucky, and Elijah in Goodyear, Arizona – each of whom gave $100.
And we thank God for Pete in Troy, Montana who gave $150, Mandy in Walpole, New Hampshire who gave $200, as well as Amy in Seminole, Texas and Manny and Denise in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania – each of whom gave $300.
Those 15 Worldview listeners gave a total of, drum roll please, (sound effect of drum roll) $1,480. (audience cheering)
That means by this Friday, June 7th, we’re looking for 22 Worldview listeners to pledge $50 per month for 12 months and 44 listeners to pledge $25/month for 12 months. Just go to TheWorldview.com, click on “Give,” select the dollar amount you’d like, and click on the recurring button if that’s your wish.
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