It’s Friday, November 21st, 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

Christian ethnic cleansing survivors given new homes in Armenia

Several families displaced by ethnic cleansing in their ancient Christian homeland more than two years ago were given new homes and plots of land on Tuesday through a charitable initiative seeking to help revitalize a rural Armenian mountain village, reports the Christian Post.

Romans 12:15 says, “Rejoice with those who rejoice.”

The Tufenkian Foundation has cut the ribbon on a pilot refugee village in Svarants, completing the first 10 of 20 new homes in the upper reaches of Armenia’s mountainous Tatev Municipality, which borders Iran and Azerbaijan.

The new homes, which come with adjoining plots of land and a barn, were built specifically to help families rebuild their lives around the agricultural and livestock work they were doing before Azerbaijan’s 2023 invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh. It’s a predominantly Armenian region known affectionately to Armenians as the Republic of Artsakh.

After a months-long military blockade, more than 120,000 ethnic Artsakh Armenians were forced from their homes in September 2023, and most have lived for two years throughout Armenia with what Artsakh leaders say has been inadequate social integration. 

Judge orders Trump to end National Guard deployment in DC

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a Biden appointee, ordered the Trump administration to end its monthslong deployment of National Guard troops to help police the nation’s capital, reports the Associated Press.

She asserted that President Donald Trump’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., illegally intrudes on local officials’ authority to direct law enforcement in the district.

Trump had said the troops were needed to deal with rampant crime and violence in Washington and support federal immigration law enforcement efforts there.

Pope Leo met with Illinois’ pro-abortion, pro-perversion governor

The stream of liberal clergy and scandalous public figures who are given audiences with Pope Leo XIV seemingly never comes to an end.

Now comes news that pro-abortion Democratic Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker spoke with Leo for 40 minutes at the Vatican during a private meeting on Wednesday, reports LifeSiteNews.com.

In the past, Pritzker has designated Illinois a “sanctuary state” for women seeking abortions, expanded access to chemical abortion pills, and approved policies sexual perversion activists have long desired. To top it off, Pritzker may sign a bill that would legalize physician-assisted suicide.

According to Proverbs 6:17, one of seven things that God hates is “hands that shed innocent blood.”

A Pritzker spokesman said that the audience with Leo was arranged by pro-homosexual Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, a man with whom he has had a long friendship.

Neither Trump nor Vance not invited to Dick Cheney’s funeral

Political figures from across the aisle gathered Thursday in Washington, DC, for the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney — a key figure of pre-MAGA Republican politics, reports CBS News.

The funeral, which was attended by two former presidents and all living former vice presidents, was a bipartisan who’s who of Washington dignitaries yet with the notable absence of two of the country’s current leaders.

Neither President Donald Trump nor Vice President J.D. Vance were invited to the funeral.

Cheney received full military honors at the invitation-only memorial service at Washington’s National Cathedral. Attendees included former Presidents Joe Biden and George W. Bush, former First Ladies Jill Biden and Laura Bush, as well as former Vice Presidents Kamala Harris, Mike Pence, Al Gore, and Dan Quayle.

George W. Bush: Dick Cheney was a serious man

Former President George W. Bush eulogized Dick Cheney, his former vice president, as a consummate public servant who could be relied on, and who “lifted the standards” of those around him.

BUSH: “In a profession that attracts talkers, Dick Cheney was a thinker and a listener. And when he did speak up, conveying thoughts in that even tone of voice, that orderly, unexcitable manner, you knew you were getting the best of a highly disciplined mind.

“No colleague, no legislator, no foreign leader who ever met Dick Cheney ever doubted that they were dealing with a serious man.”

Cheney, who served as Bush’s vice president from 2001 to 2009, died on November 3 at the age of 84. Prior to being elected vice president, Cheney served as defense secretary, White House chief of staff, and as a congressman representing Wyoming.

Texas Governor slams judge who blocked redistricting map

Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott slammed the El Paso federal judge, a 2019 Trump nominee, who once worked for Abbott, for authoring the decision that blocked the state’s congressional redistricting map that President Donald Trump wanted ahead of next year’s elections, reports the San Antonio Express-News.

​In an appearance on Fox News, Abbott said a previous redistricting decision by U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey Brown, who worked for Abbott when he was a Texas Supreme Court justice in the 1990s, was overturned last year.

ABBOTT: “Judge Brown, who wrote that opinion, he was just reversed last year in a different redistricting decision. He was wrong last year. He’s wrong this year. I have never seen an opinion so erroneous in its writing. That’s something that the United States Supreme Court, I think, is just not going to tolerate.”

​Abbott said he is “confident” that the U.S. Supreme Court will side with Texas and allow the new map, which gives Republicans five more winnable seats, to be used in the 2026 midterm elections.

The case has major ramifications for control of the U.S. House during the final two years of Trump’s presidency. Republicans currently hold a five-seat majority in the U.S. House. If Democrats retake control of the chamber, they would have the power to stop all major legislation Trump wants passed and would be able to hold hearings to investigate the administration’s policy decisions and actions.

British shoe cobbler victorious in David vs. Goliath battle

And finally, a British shoe cobbler in Gloucestershire, England, named Alan Macdonald, has been happily repairing shoes for thirty years at Macdonald Traditional Cobbler.

MACDONALD: “Well, my father was a cobbler and my grandfather was a cobbler. So, I’ve been around probably since I was about five. I think my father had me doing work.”

Recently, a corporate shoe repair chain wanted to open a location right across the street. Local citizens signed a petition to protect Alan McDonald, reports GoodNewsNetwork.org. The petition to reject the corporate newcomer collected 1,000 signatures from people in the area through social media, including the local Parliament member.

MACDONALD: “You know, I hadn’t expected this swell of support that’s happened as a result of this application. I mean, I just was not expecting that.”

A United Kingdom grocery chain Tesco had submitted a planning application together with another chain called Timpson, to open a new location of one of their bizarre service centers that offered combinations of dry cleaning, watch repair, key duplication, photo printing, engraving, portraiture, and shoe repair.

To Macdonald’s delight, when the corporate application for its new location was due to be discussed at a parish council meeting, Tesco confirmed it would not be moving forward.  However, it failed to specify whether or not the petition drive led to their decision.

MACDONALD: “It was quite a worry to be honest. You know, I don’t make a massive amount of money. I mean, only a small amount taken away from the income that I make here would make it very difficult to survive, to be honest.”

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