It’s Tuesday, September 16th, 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 Kevin Swanson
Pakistani flood claims 900 lives
Floods in Pakistan have taken the lives of 900 people.
Plus, over two million people have been displaced and 1,600 villages destroyed.
The British Christian Asian Association is on the ground helping Christian communities in Pakistan now.
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Trump compared Brazilian witch hunt of Bolsonaro to his trials
As The Worldview reported on September 12th, Brazil’s previous president, Jair Bolsonaro, was convicted of trying to overturn the 2022 election, and sentenced to 27 years in prison for it.
U.S. President Donald Trump responded by comparing the ordeal with his own in 2020. He said, “I thought he was a good president of Brazil, and it’s very surprising that could happen very much like they tried to do with me, but they didn’t get away with it at all.”
The Wall Street Journal featured a column by Mary O’Grady declaring that Brazil’s courts have been turned to Lawfare — the use of the judicial system to achieve political ends.
Nepal’s revolution leaves 51 dead and with new Prime Minister
The nation of Nepal has been caught in a maelstrom of revolution for the past week, leaving 51 people dead, government buildings destroyed, and supermarkets and politician’s homes burned to the ground, reports the BBC.
The revolution was largely instigated by Gen Z, 18 to 24-year-old college-aged youth, after a social media ban.
Nepal’s prime minister resigned, and another was appointed — the first woman leader of the Himalayan country. The nation is relying upon Sushila Karki to restore stability. She has promised $11,330 for each family where a protester was killed in the melee.
Similar youth-driven revolutions occurred in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, overturning these national governments as well.
Isaiah 3:12 speaks of the instability of nations in similar terms. It says, “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.”
The nations of the world which have appointed or elected the most female leaders since 1946 are Finland, India, New Zealand, and England. The average number of nations led by female heads hovered around 6 in the 1990s and early 2000s. Today, the average has increased to 15 female leaders.
Utah Gov.: Kirk’s murderer was “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology”
Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox has announced on CNN’s State of the Union that official charges will be filed today against Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin, Tyler Robinson.
The governor also said, “The FBI has confirmed that [Robinson’s] roommate was a romantic partner, a male transitioning to female.” Cox added that evidence from family and friends is pointing to the fact that the alleged murderer had been “deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology.”
Romans 1:28 and 29 speaks of the progression of evil: “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder.”
Tyler Robinson’s trans roommate “hates conservatives and Christians”
Fox News has also reported that Robinson’s 22-year-old “trans roommate” “hates conservatives and Christians.” That according to an interview with a relative on Fox.
The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told Fox News Digital her relative began to act differently when he turned 18 and said that he developed a hatred of Christians and conservatives. She explained that “He hated us. He was not raised that way, but he, over the years, has become really detached [and] been radicalized. … He has obviously gotten progressively worse the last year or two.”
Transgenderism on the rise
Transgenderism has increased across the United States — with 1.6% of American adults claiming to be such. That’s four million Americans!
Pew Research estimates that 44% of Americans know somebody who is attempting to appear to change their own gender.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland attempted the first gender mutilations back in 1966. The program was shut down in 1979.
Then again, in 1997, the practice was reinstated by a Dr. Stanley Biber in Trinidad, Colorado. Biber’s clinic became the gender mutilation capital of the country until the surgeon’s retirement in 2003.
These are the roots of the movement in America.
Gold and stocks hit new highs
Gold is reaching for new highs — scraping $3,670 per ounce on Monday. Silver reached $42.60 per ounce. That’s up 41% and 38% respectively over the previous year.
Stocks are up similarly. The NASDAQ reached 22,340 points yesterday, a 27% increase over last year.
Meanwhile, the median house selling price has dropped a total of 7% since late 2022.
Teen reels in 177-pound Halibut
And finally, 13-year-old Jackson Denio of New Hampshire reeled in a 177-pound Atlantic Halibut off the New England coast last week. That could be a world record for a youth catch.
After wrestling with the fish for a half an hour on the line, it took three men to get the monster in the boat.
DENIO: “It took the three deckhands and the captain to get it in the boat, and then, once it was in the boat, everybody was just yelling and cheering.
FRIEND: “Jackson! Whoo!”
The largest halibut on record weighed 515 pounds, caught in Alaska in 1996.
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