It’s Friday, July 4th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
Muslim mob disrupts Christian retreat in Indonesia
On June 27, a mob of 200 Muslims stormed a Christian youth retreat at a home in Indonesia, driving out participants and damaging property, as police and soldiers looked on reports Morning Star News.
Ironically, after praying at the mosque that Friday, they carried banners and shouted, “Destroy that house, destroy that house.” – referring to the home in Cidahu District in the West Java Province. They damaged windows, toilets, a gazebo, and garden.
Claiming that a house should not be used as a place of worship, the Muslim mob also threw a motorbike into a nearby river and damaged the main gate.
Videos circulating online show a man climbing a wall and removing a wooden cross attached to it, which he then uses to break a window.
House sends Big Beautiful Bill to Trump’s desk
On July 3, the House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill to implement President Donald Trump’s agenda, sending it to the president’s desk, reports The Epoch Times.
The bill cleared the House in a 218–214 vote, following an all-night session as Republicans scrambled to win over holdouts who had derailed an earlier attempt to advance the 940-page measure.
House Speaker Mike Johnson was exuberant.
JOHNSON: “This is the vote tally card. We’re gonna frame this one. Okay? 218-214.”
The vote also came after Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries held the floor — for what C-SPAN confirmed was a new length record — to lambast the bill for more than eight hours.
The only two Republicans who voted against it were Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, alongside the entire House Democratic Caucus.
House Speaker Johnson said the Republicans knew they had to get Trump’s bill passed in light of the gift of unified government.
JOHNSON: “We believed in the election cycle last fall that we were going to be given this great blessing of unified government, that we would have the White House and the Senate and the House aligned — unified government.
“We had a tough four years before this last election cycle. America was in, we were in deep trouble. We knew that if we won, and we believed we would, we knew that if we got unified government, we’d have to quite literally fix every area of public policy. Everything was an absolute disaster under the Biden-Harris radical, woke, progressive Democrat regime.”
The legislation enacts many of Trump’s domestic policy initiatives, including tax cuts as well as boosting spending for the border and defense.
The passage marks a major victory for Republican leadership and Trump, who had to contend with a diverse group of holdouts who objected to the Senate’s version of the bill for various reasons, including its effect on the deficit and deeper cuts to Medicaid.
House Speaker Johnson, an Evangelical Christian, expressed his gratitude to God.
JOHNSON: “We took the best effort that we could, in One Big, Beautiful Bill, to fix as much of it as we could. And I am so grateful to God that we got that done as we did.
“I do believe in God. I believe in that motto that is what has made our nation the greatest in the history of the world. And some people shake their heads and they think that’s old fashioned or something. That is a fact.
“When the framers put this together. They stepped out in faith. They did something that no nation had ever done before. The great statesman, philosopher G.K. Chesterton of Great Britain, said, ‘America is the only nation in the world that was founded upon a creed. And he said it’s listed with almost theological lucidity [or clarity] in the nation’s birth certificate: the Declaration of Independence.’
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. We recognize, we boldly proclaim the self-evident truth that her rights do not come from the government. They come from God Himself.”
Psalm 9:1 says, “I will give thanks to You, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonderful deeds.”
The bill will head to Trump’s desk ahead of a self-imposed July 4 deadline. He is expected to sign it at 5 p.m. ET today.
4 killed and 14 wounded in Chicago drive-by at rapper party
On Wednesday night, four people died from gunshot wounds and 14 others were hospitalized following a drive-by shooting in Chicago, reports The Associated Press. At least three were in critical condition.
Three shooters fired out of the SUV before they drove away. No suspect is in custody.
Pastor Donovan Price talked to Channel 8 News.
PRICE: “An SUV pulls up and just opens fire on a crowd of people. It was absolute chaos, from people screaming to blood on the streets to people laying on the streets. Just a massive police presence. Horrific. More than I’ve ever seen.”
The shooting took place in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, a popular nightlife destination with many restaurants and bars. It was outside a restaurant and lounge that hosted an album release party for a profane rapper named Mello Buckzz, whose actual name is Melanie Doyle. Hip hop lyrics are filled with calls to violence. Ironically, her boyfriend was one of those shot.
Thirteen women and five men, ranging in age from 21 to 32, were shot. The dead included two men and two women.
On his X account, Pastor Price wrote, “Just sitting in my car crying for some of the people I held tonight.”
Psalm 11:5 says, “The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, He hates with a passion.”
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said that the violence “has left our city in a state of grief.”
RFK Jr. cites link between Hepatitis vaccine and autism
Appearing on Tucker Carlson’s podcast, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talked about the link between the Hepatitis vaccine for babies and autism, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
He referenced a Centers for Disease Control study that was buried.
KENNEDY: “They looked at children who had received the hepatitis vaccine within their first 30 days of life, and compared those children to a children who had received the vaccine later or not at all, and they found a 1,135% elevated risk of autism among the vaccinated children. It shocked them. They kept the study secret, and they manipulated it through five different iterations to try to bury the link.”
Secretary Kennedy also referenced 100 other studies and the new studies at the Health and Human Services Department which will be completed by September.
KENNEDY: “The external literature is showing over 100 studies that indicate that there is a link.
“But we’re going to do real science. The way that we’re going to do that is we’re going to make the databases public for the first time. We have already put out grant requests. Any scientists with credentials can apply for a grant and tell us how they want to go about studying these. We’re going to get real studies done for the first time.”
(You can watch the entire 90-minute interview on a variety of topics here)
Worldview listeners in Nicaragua and Mexico speak up
And finally, Bob Kelly wrote me at Adam@TheWorldview.com. He said, “Hello from rural Nicaragua [in Central America,] the 30th most difficult country worldwide to be a Christian, [according to Open Doors.] We like your emphasis on our brothers and sisters who are suffering for Christ.”
And Hannah Van Kirk in Mexico said, “My three kids — Tessa, Reese, and Lincoln — and I have been listening to The Worldview for a year. We include it as part of our homeschool day. We enjoy the update and prayer reports about the persecuted Christians. And we appreciate that you occasionally suggest that we send get well cards to Christian leaders who are sick or cards of encouragement to others who are standing up against the world. We also enjoy the uplifting stories.”
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And that’s The Worldview on this Friday, July 4th, in the year of our Lord 2025. Follow us on X or subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I’m Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.