It’s Tuesday, September 14th, A.D. 2021. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Kevin Swanson
Eritrea, Africa arrested two elderly pastors
Church in Chains reports that two Eritrean pastors were arrested and taken to an undisclosed location in late July. Pray for pastors Girmay Araya, age 75, and Samuel Okbamichael, age 74.
Eritrea, Africa is bordered by Ethiopia on the south and Sudan on the west. Open Doors lists Eritrea as the sixth worst country in the world for the persecution of Christians. About 500 Christians are suffering in prisons there for their faith.
Ironically enough, Eritrea’s dictator-president Isaias Afewerki is a member of the Eritrean Orthodox Church.
75% of American adults have received COVID shot
75.3% of Americans, 18 years and older, have received the COVID-19 shot, increasing now at a rate of about 5% per month.
Official data puts COVID deaths at about 1,000 per day, down from 4,000 per day in January (on the 7-day rolling average).
Biden does not have constitutional authority to mandate COVID shots
A Trafalgar Group survey found that 59% of Americans believe that President Joe Biden does NOT have the constitutional authority to require businesses to mandate COVID shots.
Only 30% were in agreement with the president on this one.
Britain pushing COVID shots in 12-15-year-olds
Britain is offering the COVID vaccine now for 12 to 15-year-old children, after the recommendation was made by the nation’s Chief Medical Officers.
And, the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention is requiring all of its missionaries and their children, ages 16 and older, to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Romans 14:3-4 says, “Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him. Who are you to judge another’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.”
Evangelical Lutherans selects male bishop pretending to be female
A man, who is attempting to present himself as a woman, a certain Mr. Rohrer, was appointed to the high position of bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church on September 11th, reports NBC News.
The so-called “transgendered” man, who changed his first name to “Megan” and who uses the gender-neutral singular “they” pronoun, is assigned to oversee 200 congregations in California and Nevada.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States with about 3.3 million members.
The Lord refers to the promotion of sexual immorality at the church in Thyatira, in Revelation 2:20-22. “I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed, I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.”
Homeschoolers dropped from 5.6 million to 3.7 million
The National Home Education Research Institute just released current numbers on homeschooling in the U.S., now estimating 3.7 million for the current school year.
This estimate is down from the peak of 5.6 million homeschooled kids recorded by the Census Bureau for the 2020-2021 school year.
South Dakota Governor outlaws webcam abortions
South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem has signed an Executive Order which would make tele-medicine abortions illegal in the state, reports LifeNews.com.
She joins Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine who signed a similar order last January.
Gavin Newsom leading Larry Elder in recall election today
The California governor recall election is today.
Current polls have the Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom ahead by a 56-42 margin over conservative Republican talk show host Larry Elder, reports the L.A. Times.
Pro-life talk show host Bob Enyart died of COVID
Denver-based pro-life talk show host Bob Enyart passed away on Sunday afternoon, after contracting COVID-19.
Please pray that God would comfort his family.
Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion
The Supreme Court of Mexico ruled unanimously to decriminalize abortion in the various states, reports Reuters.
Mexico City was the first region of the country to decriminalize abortion back in 2007.
Dem. Senator Joe Manchin: “I won’t support a $3.5 trillion bill”
In the providence of Almighty God, one man stands in the way of the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill before Congress. Democrat Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia refuses to support the huge increase in federal spending, reports CNBC.com.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, the senator wrote, “I, for one, won’t support a $3.5 trillion bill, or anywhere near that level of additional spending, without greater clarity about why Congress chooses to ignore the serious effects inflation and debt have on existing government programs.”
Trump’s National Faith Advisory Board and a possible run in 2024
Former Trump administration officials are forming a National Faith Advisory Board — what some see as a signal the former president may be gearing up for a 2024 run for the high office.
In an e-mail to supporters, the group announced they intended to “protect our religious freedoms here and abroad, in order to worship and live according to our faith.” Trump is expected to join the first conference call for the organization this Thursday.
U.S. inflation rate is up
And finally, in economic news, inflation rates are climbing.
The Producer Price Index, another inflation index, registered an 8.3% jump in August, year over year, reports CNBC.com.
Plus, food was up an annualized 35%, and meats registered a 102% increase.
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