It’s Friday, April 4th, 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 Adam McManus
Chinese Communists sentence pastor to 5-year prison sentence
The Chinese Communists have sentenced Pastor Wan Changchun of Living Stone Reformed House Church to a five-year prison sentence, reports International Christian Concern. The church is located in the city of Bengbu in the Anhui Province in Eastern China,
As reported by Bitter Winter Magazine, Pastor Changchun was arrested in April 2023 for alleged fraud connected to the operation of his house church. However, Chinese communist officials often falsely use fraud allegations and charges to accuse, harass, arrest, and ultimately imprison Christians, especially pastors, to attempt to shut down their unregistered house churches.
The pastor was one of the house church leaders who signed the statement against the repressive 2017 Regulation on Religious Affairs.
The Chinese government has long considered religion an existential threat to the state’s authority.
Despite the unjust punishment, Pastor Changchun has echoed the words of Peter who said in Acts 5:29, “We must obey God rather than men.”
Democrat Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking speech championed the Left
Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey officially broke the record previously held by the late Republican Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina by delivering the longest continuous floor speech in Senate history, reports The Epoch Times.
He began his speech at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, March 31st. Here are some highlights.
BOOKER: “I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able.”
The Senator talked about how liberals, who have believed the lies of the mainstream media, are quaking in their boots about Trump’s re-election.
BOOKER: “They’re writing me letters with words like ‘fear’ and ‘terror.’ They’re talking about staying up at night and not being able to sleep because they don’t have a president that comforts them.”
Senator Booker took a page from Republican candidate Ronald Reagan, who asked the American people this question in 1979 in his race against Democratic President Jimmy Carter.
REAGAN: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
After only two months into Trump’s second term, following four years of Joe Biden, Booker asked this ridiculous question.
BOOKER: “I ask you, ‘Are you better off than you were 72 days ago economically?’ Prices are up. Stock markets down. The risk of recession is climbing. Consumer confidence is in the gutter.”
Like most of the Leftists in the Democratic Party today, Booker played the class warfare card.
BOOKER: “We have more billionaires than any other country. Does that speak to the greatness of our nation? No. I think the things that speak to the greatness of a nation is how do we take care of each other?”
And, by taking care of each other, he was not referring to the Christian concept of helping one another out of one’s own resources, but the idea of redistributing wealth of other people with tax money.
BOOKER: “I’ve had farmers from New Jersey to Texas coming to my office about this president freezing contracts that we approved in a bipartisan manner, putting them in financial crisis. It’s not right or left. It’s right or wrong. It’s not a partisan moment. It’s an American moment. It’s a moral moment.”
Rejecting the premise that Americans can better determine how to spend their own heard-earned money, Booker advocated for at least maintaining the high rate of taxation.
BOOKER: “You don’t need more tax cuts. And we, as a society, have an obligation to each other.”
As of 7:19 p.m. ET on Tuesday, April 1, Booker had spoken for 24 hours and 19 minutes, a minute longer than Strom Thurmond’s 1957 filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Most filibusters on the Senate floor are motivated by opposition to a proposed bill. In this case, he used his time to object to the entirety of the Trump agenda.
Booker finally yielded the floor at 8:05 p.m. on Tuesday, April 1st, with his time on the floor clocking in at a total of 25 hours and 5 minutes. Not only had he stood the whole time, but he never took a restroom break by fasting ahead of time and by dehydrating himself. Throughout his Senate filibuster, he took some occasional sips of water.
Dow Jones drops 1,100 points a day after Trump tariff announcement
The three major U.S. stock indexes dropped on the morning of April 3 after President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs of 10 percent or higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging by 1,100 points by noon yesterday, reports The Epoch Times.
Aside from the Dow Jones tumbling, the S&P 500 Index dropped by 3.5 percent, and the Nasdaq Composite slid by more than 4.7 percent at about 9:35 a.m. EST.
However, advocates of the Trump tariffs believe the economic pain will be momentary, as he uses them as leverage to achieve fair trade long-term.
Trump’s ban on trans troops halted
A three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to pause a lower court’s decision blocking enforcement of a ban on trans-identified military service members, reports The Christian Post.
The Pentagon argued that trans-identified soldiers compromise “military readiness.”
By denying the administration’s request, the appellate court left in place the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, late last month.
In essence, the 9th Circuit Court ruling prevented the Trump administration from removing trans-identifying service members.
‘Angel Eye Camera’ lets parents of premature babies check-in
And finally, 1 in every 10 women in the United States will experience the premature birth of their child. A heroic organization is helping these women keep two eyes on their baby in the Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit, even if they are miles away, reports GoodNewsNetwork.org.
Called the AngelEye System, developed by the firm of the same name, it’s a camera with a remotely-accessible 24-hour feed that’s mounted via a boom arm onto any of the beds or tables an infant may be placed on.
It allows the parents, who may not always be able to stay with their child, to keep an eye on them whenever nerves or separation anxiety strike.
Thanks to advances in medical science, premature birth is a challenge that can be reliably overcome.
Philadelphia’s Lauren Walsh had to face this exact situation when her third baby, John, was born prematurely at 32 weeks, not even weighing two pounds.
John required a 61-day stay in the NICU. The AngelEye Camera was a lifeline for his mom and dad who could check up on him at any point by switching the camera feed on from their phones or computers.
No doubt, the presence of the AngelEye Camera lowered the parents’ anxiety, making it easier to abide by the counsel of 1 Peter 5:7 which says, “Cast all your anxiety on God, because He cares for you.”
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