It’s Tuesday, May 6th, 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  Kevin Swanson

Chinese Communists intensifying regulation of churches

Christian Daily Korea reports that communist China intensified its regulation of Christian churches effective May 1st.

The additional regulations will place controls on missions, Christian education, fundraising, and religious activities over the internet.

Specifically, many South Korean missionaries have already been expelled or denied visas under China’s increasingly aggressive crackdown since 2017. 

South Korean election coming up

The South Korean election is planned for June 3rd.

A professing Christian, former Prime Minister Han Duck-Soo, is running as an independent in the race.

His wife, Choi Ah-young, is a fourth generation Christian. Her father is an elder. And her great grandfather founded a number of churches during the Japanese colonial period of the 1920s and 1930s. 

Han’s entry heats up the scramble among conservatives to unify behind a candidate to compete with liberal front-runner Lee Jae-myung, whose campaign recently was set back by a court decision to open a new trial on election law violation charges, reports ABC News.

106,745 Russian soldiers and 60,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died

Since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian War, 106,745 Russian soldiers have been killed.  The last year was the most deadly, with a reported loss of 45,287 Russian lives.

Ukrainian casualty numbers vary widely — with as many as 13,000 civilians and 60,000 soldiers counted among the dead.

Australia lurches left like Canada

Following the Canadian election which tipped towards the anti-God, secular humanist, progressive side, Australia did the same thing over the weekend.

The liberal Labor Party has secured at least 86 seats in parliament, up from 77 in its last go around.  

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set for his second three-year term in power. 

Muslims have six kids on average compared to low fertility of others

The global birth rate is crossing the 2.2 children-per-woman mark, crossing over the replacement level of 2.1.That’s down from 5.3 children per woman in 1963 worldwide.

World Bank data points to the Muslim-heavy nations of Somalia, Chad, Niger, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the highest fertility rates exceeding six children per woman.

Countries with the lowest birth rates below 1.0 child per woman include South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Chile, and Puerto Rico.

Eastern Europe is seeing the steepest declines in birth rates.

Deuteronomy 28:15-18 reminds us of God’s dealings with nations: “But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all His commandments and His statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. Cursed shall you be in the field.  Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb.”

Oil becoming less expensive

World oil prices have sunk to $57 per barrel — about the same price as it was in 1987.

The average gas price in the United States is $3.26 per gallon, down from $3.76 per gallon last summer.

Disney pushes homosexual scene in “Star Wars Andor”

Disney has incorporated a prominent homosexual scene in its latest episode of Star Wars Andor.

This marks another milestone in the ongoing homosexualization of Disney, with the scene marking the first prominent display of homosexuality for featured characters.

Disney has increased its revenues to $91 billion per year, and has registered another 5% increase in its first quarter in 2025.  Overall revenues for the entertainment company are up about 20% since the pro-homosexual organization entered into a conflict with Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis.  

Levi Strauss and Disney were the first companies to provide benefits to homosexual employees between 1992 and 1995.

Conservative Presbyterians growing and Liberal Presbyterians fading

The Presbyterian Church in America, the largest conservative Calvinist denomination in the United States, is registering its highest number of members in its 51-year history — topping 400,700 this year. Offerings were up 7.4%, year-over-year, according to stats just released by the denomination.

Another conservative denomination, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, registers 33,520 members, growing at a rate of 3% per year.

Meanwhile, the more liberal PCUSA church membership has dropped off from 3.1 million to 1.1 million over the last 40 years.

Warren Buffet gave $8.4 billion to fund abortion

And finally, Warren Buffett has announced his retirement from Berkshire Hathaway, as Chief Executive, effective January 1st.

The 94-year-old Buffett is currently listed as the sixth richest man in the world behind Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Bernard Arnault of France.   

Buffett’s foundations have provided $8.4 billion to pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation. Plus, Buffett was a major supporter of the “RU-486” abortion kill pill.

Forbes reports that other major pro-abortion billionaire donors include: Mackenzie Scott (Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife), the Bill Gates Foundation, the Hewlett Family, Michael Bloomberg, and George Soros.

But now, take comfort in these words from Isaiah 49: 24-26. The prophet asks, “Can the prey be taken from the mighty or the captives of a tyrant be rescued? For thus says the Lord: ‘Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children. I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the Lord your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.’”

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And that’s The Worldview on this Tuesday, May 6th, in the year of our Lord 2025. Subscribe for free 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.