It’s Wednesday, January 8th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)

By Jonathan Clark

Muslims set new convert’s house on fire, killing whole family

A Christian family in Uganda, Africa died for their faith last month.

Back in November, 64-year-old Kaiga Muhammad, his wife Sawuya Kaiga and their son Swagga Amuza Kaiga, age 26, came to faith in Christ through a local church.

The pastor of the church said the family requested prayer for their son who had malaria. The pastor told Morning Star News, “We prayed for the son, and immediately he was restored to good health.”

However, Muslims in the area found out about the family’s conversion to Christianity. On December 26th, they set the family’s house on fire, killing all three. Please pray for persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ in Uganda. 

Psalm 116:15 says, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.”

Christian religious liberty in Canadian crosshairs

The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada warns that new government recommendations would curtail religious freedoms in Canada. 

The recommendations come from a Finance Committee report at the end of last year. Recommendation 429 says the government should “no longer provide charitable status to anti-abortion organizations.”  In addition, it says the Income Tax Act should be amended to “provide a definition of a charity which would remove the privileged status of ‘advancement of religion’ as a charitable purpose.”

The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada said, “This change, if adopted, would have a far-reaching and devastating impact – on religious charities, the people they serve, and Canadian society. Just over 40% of Canada’s registered charities advance religion. This proposal would destabilize the charitable sector in Canada.”

Facebook/Instagram kiss “fact checking” goodbye

In the United States, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday the tech company is ending fact checking on its social media platforms.

Meta is the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.

Zuckerberg said, “We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms. More specifically, here’s what we’re going to do. First, we’re going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.”

Life News celebrated the decision, noting, “More practically, that means Facebook is finally going to stop discriminating against pro-life conservatives and it will get rid of the liberal fact-checkers it has used for years to suppress conservative content.”

West losing control of world economy

In economic news, the West is slowly losing control of the world economy.

The U.S. dollar’s share of global currencies fell again last year to 57.4%. That’s down from 72% in the year 2000, dropping a rate of about 1% per year.

Bitcoin and gold skyrocket

Bitcoin scraped $102,000 on Monday. The cryptocurrency market cap has hit $3.64 trillion.

Plus, gold’s market capitalization is estimated at $17.9 trillion and gold’s value is up 129% in seven years.  Silver is at $1.7 trillion.  

Cryptocurrency’s market cap is up 10-fold since early 2018. Amazon has improved its market capitalization 16-fold in ten years, and Tesla’s market capitalization value is up 24-fold in seven years.

Ironically, Tesla’s stock rose 71% last year, but the company’s total cars sold last year dropped a skosh – by about one percent.

Oldest woman is 117

And finally, after the earthly departure of the oldest woman in the world who was from Japan, the new candidate is a soccer-loving nun from Brazil. Sister Inah Canabarro of Porto Alegre is 117 years old. 

Another nun, Lucille Randon of France, held the record for the oldest living person in 2023, when she died at 118 years of age. The oldest living person by recent authenticated accounts was Jeanne Louise Calment of France, who died in 1997 at 122 years of age.

1 Peter 3:10-11 says, “He who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.”

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And that’s The Worldview on this Wednesday, January 8th, in the year of our Lord 2025. Subscribe by Amazon Music or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I’m Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.