It’s Friday, September 5th, 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
Museum honors victims of genocide against Jews in Romania
The Romanian city of Iași hosts the Pogrom museum, which was created to honor the victims the largest genocide against the Jews that took place on Romanian territory, preceding the deportations to Transnistria and the concentration camps at Auschwitz, reports Evangelical Focus.
The museum was opened in the former headquarters of the Romanian police on June 29, 2021, the 80th anniversary of the killing of over 13,200 Jews in the yard of that building.
In a story which aired on Alfa Omega TV, a Romanian broadcaster, the reporter explained, “Jews from the ages of 18 and up, were summoned, lured into a trap by being told to come and receive a pass for free movement. Romania had entered the war, and they could not move freely without that pass. However, they were met by Romanian and German soldiers who mercilessly machine-gunned them.”
Before the genocide of the Jews, they brought in several Jews to dig the pits. The mass graves in which thousands of those Jews are buried can be visited in a field close to the museum.
In addition to those who were executed, over 4,000 Jews were loaded into the so-called “death trains.” Initially, they put 40–50 people in a wagon, but the stationmaster refused to “waste wagons.” So, he packed in up to 100–120 people per train, standing pressed together.
In the midst of this tragedy, there were “Christians from various denominations and even a colonel from the Romanian army, who saved Jews in those days.”
DC sues Trump over National Guard
The District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Sept. 4 over its deployment of the National Guard to the nation’s capital, reports The Epoch Times.
The lawsuit alleges that the deployment violates the district’s semi-sovereign status known as Home Rule, whereby the city has jurisdiction over its own affairs but Congress can override its decisions.
The lawsuit states, “In so doing, [President Donald Trump] has run roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy—that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement.”
In a statement to The Epoch Times, the White House criticized the lawsuit and defended the deployment of the National Guard.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson said, “President Trump is well within his lawful authority to deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C., to protect federal assets and assist law enforcement with specific tasks. This lawsuit is nothing more than another attempt—to the detriment of DC residents and visitors—to undermine the President’s highly successful operations to stop violent crime in DC.”
Trump asks Supreme Court to quickly take up tariffs case
The Trump administration took the fight over tariffs to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking the justices to rule quickly that the president has the power to impose sweeping import taxes under federal law, reports American Family Radio News.
The government called on the court to reverse an appeals court ruling that found most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are an illegal use of an emergency powers law.
It’s the latest in a series of Trump administration appeals to a Supreme Court he helped shape, and one that is expected to put a centerpiece of the president’s trade policy before the justices.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit left the tariffs in place for now, but the administration nevertheless called on the high court to intervene quickly.
Cheerleader charged with delivering, harming, & hiding her baby
A University of Kentucky cheerleader is facing multiple charges after police found her dead newborn infant hidden in a closet, wrapped in a towel, and concealed inside a black trash bag, drawing reactions from activists on both sides of the abortion debate, reports the Christian Post.
Laken Snelling, age 21, was arrested on Sunday and charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and concealing the birth of an infant, according to the Lexington Police Department. During an appearance in court on Tuesday, Snelling pleaded not guilty.
The American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs said, “This heartbreaking and tragic incident is all the more painful as Kentucky has a safe haven law that allows parents to surrender their children, no questions asked.”
Indeed, Kentucky’s Safe Infants Act allows parents to leave a newborn baby under 30 days old at a police station, fire station, an emergency medical services provider, or a staffed place of worship without fear of prosecution or allegations of neglect.
In a video posted on her Instagram on Tuesday, pro-abortion writer Jessica Valenti was upset that police and the media in Kentucky said that Snelling had delivered an infant.
Listen.
VALENTI: “I really need reporters to stop using the word ‘baby’ or ‘infant’ until they actually know what happened in this case, because we don’t know yet. We only know what police are telling us.”
Oddly enough, Valenti believes that if a woman has a miscarriage that it somehow diminishes the value of the baby, and therefore, no one should call her baby a baby.
In Psalm 139:13-14, Scripture quite clearly affirms the humanity of the child, no matter how early in gestational development and no matter the cause of death.
King David wrote, “For You, [God], created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, [God], because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Christian song “Whisper and the Wind” amassed 23 million streams
And finally, you might recognize the name Bodie Kuljian from the 22nd season of The Voice back in 2022 when he won second place.
The married 32-year-old singer-songwriter, who is also the father of three young children, signed with Provident, a Christian record label. No Skips is his first full-length album, which releases today.
The project comes after a string of chart-topping singles, millions of streams, and Dove Award nominations. In fact, his song entitled “Whisper and the Wind“ amassed more than 23 million global streams, and won Bodie the grand prize in the International Songwriting Competition.
Take a listen to an excerpt from this song that honors God as the One who fulfills us and guides us.
(audio of song’s opening)
“When I’m feeling my feet are tired
From running so hard for miles
You are the air I really need
When life is a rollercoaster
And I start to lose composure
You’re in the drops and in between
And every time I’m stuck in indecision
Losing my vision
You close the distance
And I don’t need to see it to believe it
For my whole life, You’ve been that all I’ve needed
And I, I’ve felt You in the fire and the rain
So help me learn to listen when You’re speaking
‘Cause love is not a secret that You’re keeping
And I, I’ve felt You when walls are caving in
Yeah, You’re with me in the whisper and the wind”
(Check out the rest of the lyrics)
Isaiah 41:10 says, “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”
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