It’s Tuesday, April 29th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Kevin Swanson
Canadians elect liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney to full term
Canada’s Liberal Party won Monday’s national election with voters giving Mark Carney, a full term as prime minister, according to the national broadcaster CBC/Radio Canada. They chose a seasoned economist and policymaker to guide their country through turbulent times, reports The Epoch Times.
The full results should be available early this morning. But the voters’ decision sealed a stunning turnaround for the Liberal Party that just months ago seemed all but certain to lose to the Conservative Party, led by career politician Pierre Polievre.
Carney has been prime minister since March, when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped down.
Going into the election, leftist Mark Carney led conservative Pierre Polievre by a 3.5% margin.
Canadians favor abortion and homosexual faux marriage
Canada is a progressive nation, progressive towards that which is evil. Sadly, 80% of Canadians favor abortion and 76% favor homosexual faux marriage or legal recognition.
Canada is the eighth most pro-homosexual nation in the world, on at least one survey.
Arson attacks on Canadian churches have doubled
Over the last ten years, arson attacks on Canadian churches have risen from about 35 per year to 75 per year.
That’s about triple the rate of arson attacks on churches in the United Kingdom and the United States, according to a well-documented report from Macdonald-Laurier.
Unbelievably, only about 4% of the arson attacks are investigated and charged.
Russia cozies up with North Korea
Russia’s relationship with North Korea is more solidified, with the official Russian TASS News Agency confirming yesterday that the nations have signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement.
Russian President Valdimir Putin issued a statement in which he commended North Korean soldiers for what he called “North Korean soldier’s heroism, their excellent training, and dedication displayed while fighting, shoulder to shoulder with Russian soldiers, defending our Motherland as their own.”
He added that, ”Our North Korean friends’ move was guided by a sense of solidarity, justice, and genuine comradery.”
North Korea remains the most dangerous country for Christians
The Open Doors’ World Watch list puts North Korea at the top of the list for the most extreme persecution of Christians in the world.
In early 2024, the North Korean government announced stricter regulations and more draconian crackdowns and terrifying persecution of its citizenry.
According to official reports, “the authorities publicly executed about 30 middle-school students (early teenagers) for watching a Korean drama on a USB drive. Several teenagers (17 years old) were sentenced to life imprisonment or death for similar reasons in June and July 2024.”
Isaiah 10 speaks of these tyrants: “Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of My people of their right. .. What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? … When the Lord has finished all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.”
Trump’s first 100 days: Southern border secure, economy faltering
Today marks President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.
The U.S. Border Patrol encounters with illegal immigrants plunged to 7,000 in March—the lowest number in at least 25 years. By contrast, there were 250,000 illegal border crossings in December 2023.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest rates have doubled since last year, increasing from 310 to about 650 per day.
Plus, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the results of Operation Tidal Wave.
LEAVITT: “We are in the beginning stages of carrying out the largest deportation campaign in American history. Over this past weekend, it was announced that through Operation Tidal Wave, a joint effort between ICE Miami and Florida law enforcement agencies, nearly 800 illegal aliens were arrested during the first four days alone.
“Among those arrested were a Colombian murderer, an alleged MS-13 and 18th Street gang members, and a Russian with a red notice for manslaughter.
“And on the other side of the country, in the early Sunday morning hours, DOJ and DHS together launched a joint raid of an illegal alien underground nightclub used by Tren de Aragua in Colorado Springs, Colorado, DHS took more than 100 illegal aliens into custody, and many drugs and weapons were also seized.
“Operation Tidal Wave is a preview of what is to come around this country: Large scale operations that employ our state and local enforcement partners to get criminal illegal aliens off our streets.”
While our southern border is more secure and we’re deporting illegal criminals, the American economy is faltering.
Estimates of the first quarter Gross Domestic Product growth rate are coming in anywhere from -0.4% to 0.8%, a sharp decrease from fourth quarter 2024 results of 2.4%.
Housing sales down
Housing sales are sagging here in the U.S.
Supply of existing homes stands at the highest level since 2016, nine years ago. Sales numbers are down to the lowest levels in 14 years.
U.S./Chinese trade down
American trade with China is taking a hit.
Vizion Global Ocean Bookings Tracker records a 44% decline on trade, year-over-year. Overall, U.S. imports are down 22%, year-over-year.
Abortion Kill Pill 22 times more dangerous than first reported
About two-thirds of the officially-recorded abortions in this country are now conducted by the Abortion Kill Pill.
But now comes this — the “largest-known study of the abortion pill,” conducted by the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Complications with the Abortion Kill Pill are 22 times higher than first reported. Based on extensive research on hundreds of thousands of insurance claims, 10% of women who take the mifepristone kill pill suffer from a serious adverse event, such as an infection or hemorrhage soon afterward.
Trinity Evangelical Divinity Seminary caves for survival
And finally, a major U.S. evangelical seminary is moving to Canada.
Trinity Evangelical Divinity Seminary in Illinois will be joining forces with Trinity Western University in British Columbia. But Trinity Western capitulated to Canada’s requirement that students not sign a covenant prohibiting “sexual activity outside of marriage between a man and a woman.”
Trinity Divinity School was formed to train ministers for the Evangelical Free Church of America back in 1897. Full time enrollment has dropped from 897 to 402 over the last twenty years.
Proverbs 25:26 says, “As a troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring, so is a righteous man that giveth way before the wicked.”
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