It’s Friday, May 9th, 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 Adam McManus
Second anniversary of brutal violence in India
Christians of Manipur State, India marked the second anniversary of the brutal ethnic violence that erupted on May 3, 2023, reports International Christian Concern.
Shockingly, 258 people were killed, 1,000 injured, and 60,000 people were displaced. Plus, 4,786 houses were burnt and 386 religious structures were vandalized, including temples and churches.
India is the 11th most dangerous country worldwide in which to be a Christian.
Cardinals selected first American Pope
On the fourth vote, the College of Cardinals, referred to as the Papal Conclave, chose the first-ever American Pope. Robert Prevost has taken the name of Pope Leo XIV, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Born in Chicago, educated at Villanova University, and a missionary to Peru, Prevost selected the name Leo for a reason.
On ABC News, Catholic Pastor James Martin said this.
MARTIN: “Historically, it’s a name that would signal his alignment with workers, labor, and the poor.”
Catholics claim that Peter, the fisherman disciple of Jesus, was the first pope. In fact, Scripture does not teach that Peter was in authority over the other apostles at all or over the church. Indeed, Ephesians 2:19 says, “So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.”
Catholics also claim that the pope is infallible when he acts or speaks as Christ’s representative on Earth. That assertion is not Scripturally supported either.
Pope critical of Trump/Vance, pushed COVID vaccine, & removed conservative bishops
In terms of positions on the issues, Prevost has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump’s administration and has consistently used his X account to promote material hostile to Trump’s immigration policies.
In one instance from February 3, Prevost reposted an article by the National Catholic Reporter entitled “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.” The article criticizes the U.S. vice president for correctly arguing that we owe more immediate responsibility to our own family members and country than to those overseas – a position taught by St. Thomas Aquinas – and reiterated in the “social encyclicals” of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century popes.
As head of the Congregation for Bishops, Prevost was instrumental in the removal of conservative Bishop Joseph Strickland in 2023 from Tyler, Texas, and the removal of the leading French conservative bishop, Dominique Rey, from his diocese of Fréjus-Toulon.
Prevost also reposted a call for the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines to be “available for all” and a United States Conference of Catholic Bishops post that called getting vaccinated “an act of love.”
In 2012, a year before the election of Pope Francis, Cardinal Prevost expressed disappointment that some Western media held “sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the Gospel,” in particular, the “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children.”
Trump’s trade deal with U.K. nets U.S. $5 billion opportunity
On Thursday, President Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced they had reached a trade agreement that lifted some — but not all — U.S. tariffs on British goods, reports National Public Radio.
Trump said it would give U.S. companies better market access for beef, ethanol, other farm products, chemicals, machinery, and industrial products — new opportunities his administration said were worth $5 billion.
2nd largest automaker making splash in America
Speaking of the positive impact of Trump’s tariffs, Volkswagen Group, the second largest automaker in the world in 2024, is preparing to join the growing list of automakers looking to re-equip its US factories in response to the tariffs, reports The Daily Mail.
The German automaker’s luxury brand, Audi — which assembles most of its lineup in its home country, Hungary, Mexico, Slovakia, Spain, and China — is planning to make some of its crossover and SUV models now in America.
‘Frasier’ star Kelsey Grammer regrets ex-girlfriend’s abortion
Frasier star Kelsey Grammer opened up about his profound regret over his ex-girlfriend’s abortion in his newly released memoir, reports People Magazine.
This tragedy closely preceded another in the actor’s life: the 1975 rape and murder of his younger sister, which is the main subject of his memoir Karen: A Brother Remembers.
In his new book, Grammer wrote, “I know that many people do not have a problem with abortion, and though I have supported it in the past, the abortion of my son eats away at my soul.”
Just months before his sister’s death, he explains that his then-girlfriend became pregnant and decided to abort their baby. While he said he was “willing” to keep the baby, he “did not plead with her to save his life.”
Grammer admits he “volunteered to have my son’s body vacuumed out of his mother’s.” As Live Action reports, abortionists use “vacuums 10-20 times more powerful than a household vacuum cleaner to tear (babies) apart alive.”
Grammer added, “I regret it.”
Despite his harrowing regret over his own son’s death by abortion, the TV star ironically says he still believes abortion should be legal.
Proverbs 31:8 says, “Open your mouth for the voiceless.”
Over 7,750 baptized in largest single-day baptism in US history
And finally, on Saturday, 7,750 people were baptized in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Huntington Beach, California, an event organizers say marked the largest single-day baptism in American history, reports The Christian Post.
Hosted by Oceans Church and led by Pastor Mark Francey, the event dubbed “Baptize California” drew approximately 30,000 attendees from more than 300 churches across the Golden State.
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