It’s Thursday, August 28th, 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 Jonathan Clark and Adam McManus
International plea to release 7 pastors in Eritrea, Africa
A consortium of charities is calling for the release of seven pastors in Eritrea who have been imprisoned for over 20 years.
Since 2002, the East African nation outlawed many religious practices. Thousands of people have subsequently faced imprisonment, including Protestants.
A country expert told Open Doors, “Anything done by any churches or its members [which is] seen as a threat to the absolute control currently in place will be subjected to punishment.”
Eritrea is known as the “North Korea of Africa.” The government infamously holds some prisoners in shipping containers. Eritrea is ranked sixth on the Open Doors’ World Watch List of the most difficult places to be a Christian.
Evangelical churches in Spain on the rise
Evangelical Focus reports that Evangelical churches are the most numerous of “minority” religions in Spain.
Evangelical churches now account for 56% of non-Catholic places of worship in the Catholic-majority country. The second most numerous minority religion is Islam.
Muslims have the most places of worship in smaller municipalities with less than 5,000 inhabitants. Meanwhile, Evangelical churches are more numerous in municipalities with 5,000 to 100,000 people.
Twisted trans killed 2 Catholic school students, injures 17
Tragically, a twisted transgendered psychotic, 23-year-old Robert Westman, who pretended to be female, shot and killed two children, ages 8 amnd 10, yesterday morning at 8:30am at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, reports The Blaze.
Another 17 people were injured, including 14 children between the ages of 6 and 14, and three adults who ere all parishioners in their 80s.
10-year-old Weston Halsne, a fifth grader, described the deadly school shooting he witnessed at the beginning of the Catholic mass.
HALSNE: “Yeah, it was like, maybe, like three minutes in, the first shot fired. … They shot through the stained glass windows, I think. And it was really scary. It was, like, right beside me. I was, like, two seats away from the stained glass windows. The shots were, like, right next to me. I think I got, like, gunpowder on my neck.”
REPORTER: “When you heard the shots, what went through your head?”
HALSNE: “The first one, I was, like, ‘What is that?’ And when I heard it again, I just ran under the pew, and then I covered my head. My friend Victor, like, saved me, though, because he laid on top of me. My friend got hit in the back. He went to the hospital.”
REPORTER: “What went through your mind when you saw that?”
HALSNE: “I was super scared for him, but I think now he’s okay.”
REPORTER: “What do you want to say to your friend who helped protect you?”
HALSNE: “He’s really brave, and I hope he’s good in the hospital. I’m praying for you.”
The man, who legally changed his name from Robert to “Robin” in 2020, then killed himself.
President Donald Trump responded immediately on Truth Social. He wrote, “I have been fully briefed on the tragic shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The FBI quickly responded and they are on the scene. The White House will continue to monitor this terrible situation. Please join me in praying for everyone involved!”
Earlier yesterday morning, Robert Westman allegedly released a deeply disturbing 11-minute-long YouTube video which I watched in its entirety. Amidst the profanity, he featured a picture of Jesus in the middle of a shooting target and a crudely drawn map of the church where the mass would take place. Westman revealed a massive amount of ammunition and long guns displayed on the bed, which were covered in his own white sharpie graffiti.
As he narrated the video in a series of almost demonically-driven voices, he panned guns with the words “Where is your God?” and “For the children” and “No remorse” and “Rip and tear” scrawled across the guns. Other egregious messages include “6 million wasn’t enough” and “Kill Trump now.”
The shirt which he planned to wear during his forthcoming shooting rampage said, “Let’s do this before the anxiety kicks in.”
Isaiah 59:7 says, “Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways.”
West Virginian parents allowed to opt kids out of vaccines
West Virginia’s Republican Governor Patrick Morrisey signed an executive order earlier this year to protect religious freedom and parental rights.
The order allows parents to opt out of schools’ vaccination requirements on religious grounds. Not surprisingly, the leftist American Civil Liberties Union issued a legal challenge.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his support for the order on Monday. He wrote on X, “I urge state legislators to support the Governor’s leadership and protect these fundamental rights. At @HHSgov, we will enforce conscience protections and defend every family’s right to make informed health decisions.”
Texas public schools will display Ten Commandments
On Monday, Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered public schools in the state to display the Ten Commandments.
A recent court order blocked some school districts from displaying the Ten Commandments. But Paxton has ordered all districts not affected by the litigation to have the displays up by next week.
Paxton wrote, “From the beginning, the Ten Commandments have been irrevocably intertwined with America’s legal, moral, and historical heritage. … The woke radicals seeking to erase our nation’s history will be defeated. I will not back down from defending the virtues and values that built this country.”
In Deuteronomy 6:6-9, God said, “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. … You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
Cracker Barrel keeps logo but pushes sexual perversion
And finally, Cracker Barrel announced Tuesday it will keep its classic logo after significant backlash.
The restaurant chain planned to sanitize its logo by removing the famous “old timer” figure leaning against a barrel. The drawing is based on Uncle Herschel McCartney, the real uncle of Cracker Barrel founder Dan Evins. The company’s stock dropped nearly $100 million last week in response to the rebranding.
President Donald Trump praised the decision to keep the classic logo. So did U.S. GOP Congressman Byron Donalds, a Republican representative for Florida.
He wrote on X, “In college, I worked at @CrackerBarrel in Tallahassee. I even gave my life to Christ in their parking lot. Their logo was iconic and their unique restaurants were a fixture of American culture. No one asked for this woke rebrand. It’s time to Make Cracker Barrel Great Again.”
D.C. Draino tweeted, “Oh, and keep the original interiors. We want to eat in Grandma’s home, not Grandma’s nursing home.”
And Brandon Wilinkson, who featured screenshots of Cracker Barrel’s LGBTQ+ Alliance logo, tweeted, “You want us to come back? Scrap the woke DEI-pandering policies and fire the CEO. Until that happens, my family won’t be coming back. You forget who your customers are. They aren’t woke liberals in the cities. It’s regular, working-class Americans that still hold traditional American values!”
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And that’s The Worldview on this Thursday, August 28th, 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. I’m Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.