It’s Monday, November 9th, A.D. 2026. 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
Egyptian Coptic Christian refused to renounce Christ
In early October, a 20-year-old Coptic Christian was kidnapped by ISIS.
Milad Malak lived in Sebarbay, Egypt, and served as a church deacon. However, because of the country’s economic decline, he traveled to Libya on September 2 to find work.
He made a day’s journey with two Muslim friends and arrived in Zliten, where they stayed with other Egyptian migrant workers. On the morning of October 4th, ISIS militants kidnapped them.
The captors subjected the group to abuse while they held them hostage for ransom money. Milad’s friends were released after their families paid a $4,700 ransom. They are now receiving medical treatment at a hospital in Egypt.
Milad’s sister, Madonna, told Worthy News that their family paid a ransom, but because he was the only Christian in the group, his kidnappers refused to release him and violently pressured him to convert to Islam.
Milad stood strong in his faith until the end. He told his persecutors, “Even if you cut me into pieces, I would never renounce my faith.”
When the Islamic militants realized they could not force him to abandon Jesus Christ, they killed him.
Milad’s family asked the Egyptian government to intervene and demand that his body be returned home.
Several weeks went by until it was finally released, and on October 28, grieving family members and fellow Christians gathered to celebrate his life. One friend said, “He was faithful to Christ till his last breath.”
James 1:12 says, “Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him.”
Trump promotes Stephen Miller to chief of staff
On November 6th, President Donald Trump said Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, just days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections.
At an event over the weekend in Mar-a-Lago, Miller spoke definitively about President Trump’s accomplishments.
MILLER: “He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction. He saved our border from annihilation, and he saved our country from threats at home and abroad, which would have been the end of the American dream forever. This man took a bullet for us. He faced down life in prison for us. He saved the Republican Party from the ash heap of history and has made it stronger, more popular, and more resilient than ever before.”
H.E. Goemans, Miller’s former Professor of Political Science at Duke University, revealed this.
GOEMANS: “My former student.”
INTERVIEWER: “The Stephen Miller in the Trump administration?”
GOEMANS: “I asked him in 2003 what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he said, ‘I want to be number two in the White House.’ And I said, ‘Oh, when do you want to achieve that?’ He says, ‘In the next 15 years.’ I said, ‘Wow, okay, well, who would be the president?’ And he said, ‘Donald Trump, maybe.’ The guy is very smart.”
How Susie Wiles was uniquely qualified to be Trump’s Chief of Staff
Susan Wiles resigned from her role as President Trump’s Chief of Staff, reported One America News.
The departure also came months after Wiles indicated she no longer showed evidence of breast cancer following months of treatment for the disease, a diagnosis she went public with in March 2026.
Wiles, age 69, has been credited with steering the most disciplined of his three presidential bids, and Trump himself has said he was often told that Wiles led his “best-run campaign.”
The daughter of the late NFL player-turned-broadcaster Pat Summerall, Susan Wiles also worked in the offices of former Jacksonville mayors John Delaney and John Peyton. Her first White House job was as a scheduler for President Ronald Reagan.
The Vanity Fair reporter said this.
VANITY FAIR REPORTER: “She has a kind of magic with Trump that none of her predecessors had. It goes all the way back to her childhood with her father, Pat Summerall, the famous football player, who was an alcoholic. One of the first things Susie Wiles told me is that ‘Donald Trump has an alcoholic’s personality,’ which is odd because we all know that Trump famously does not drink. What she meant was that he had this larger-than-life, unrestrained personality.”
ANOTHER COMMENTATOR: “So, she looks at Trump the way she looks at her father. How do you manage a kind of volatile personality, a guy who can just lash out at any minute, who can be unpredictable? And she describes that as her main skill as Chief of Staff.”
7 Presidents experienced bigger midterm election losses than Trump
Almost without fail, the midterm elections result in political losses for the president’s party.
But if you believe the liberal media, President Donald Trump’s election losses on November 3rd were the worst ever, losing 46 seats, 39 seats in the House and 7 in the Senate. Actually, truth be told, there were seven other presidents who suffered greater losses in the middle of their presidential term of office.
In 1938, Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt lost 79 seats, 72 in the House and 7 in the Senate.
In 2010, Democratic President Barack Obama lost 69 seats, 63 seats in the House and 6 in the Senate.
In 1946, Democratic President Harry S. Truman lost 68 seats, 56 seats in the House and 12 seats in the Senate.
In 1994, Democratic President Bill Clinton lost 63 seats, 54 seats in the House and 8 seats in the Senate.
In 1958, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower lost 61 seats, 48 seats in the House and 13 seats in the Senate.
In 1974, Republican President Gerald Ford lost 53 seats, 48 seats in the House and 5 seats in the Senate.
In 1966, Democratic President Lyndon Johnson lost 51 seats, 47 seats in the House and 4 seats in the Senate.
How fake Dan Sullivan might have cost real Dan Sullivan the Senate seat
Remember the fake Dan J. Sullivan, an independent, who was recruited allegedly by the Democrat Senatorial candidate Mary Peltola in Alaska to run against the real Republican incumbent Dan Scott Sullivan?
He might have cost Republican Dan Sullivan the race.
Democrat Mary Peltola earned 102,962 votes. Republican incumbent Dan Scott Sullivan captured 102,325 votes. And the Independent fake Dan J. Sullivan got 3,600 votes, many of whom probably thought they were voting for the Republican Dan Sullivan.
The election has still not been called because it’s so close. And, not surprisingly, legal questions have arisen about the purposeful attempt to confuse and deceive Alaskan voters regarding the two Dan Sullivans on the ballot.
Boston Airport travelers welcomed by voice of Boston pipefitter
Boston has a new voice welcoming travelers at the Boston Logan International Airport, reports CBS News.
Christopher Donisi, a Boston native and pipefitter, beat out nearly 6,000 people to win the unpaid gig.
Listen.
DONISI: “Welcome to Boston Logan International Airport, front door to the capital of heart, hustle, and hometown pride.”
Gotta love that Boston accent.
Florida Governor-elect gives God the glory
And finally, appearing on Fox and Friends, Republican Florida Governor-elect Byron Donalds was asked this question by Brian Kilmeade.
KILMEADE: “How does a black kid from a working-class area in Brooklyn become governor of Florida? What does it feel like to make that journey?”
DONALDS: “I’m still processing all that. My mom was with me last night, gave her a big hug. My mom did everything for me as a kid, and so it’s really just to the grace of God. God did this. This is His victory. It’s really not mine. I’m just a vessel in this entire move. But I just appreciate my mother.”
KILMEADE: “And what did she say to you?”
DONALDS: “She said she was proud. ‘I knew that you could do it.’ She said, ‘God is so good.’ It was a real special moment last night with me and my mother.”
1 Corinthians 10:31 says, “Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”
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