It’s Monday, April 24th, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus.
By Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
Libya detained and deported two Christian teachers
Two American school teachers, accused of being “missionaries inviting Muslim Libyans to convert to Christianity,” were detained and deported to Tunisia last week by the Libyan Internal Security Agency in Tripoli, reports International Christian Concern.
In Romans 10:14, the Apostle Paul asks, “How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?”
In addition, two Libyan Christians, associated with the American Christian teachers, were arrested and condemned for apostasy. They admitted that they urged people to renounce Islam and convert to Christianity.
Such arrests have been common in Libya for years, with Gaddafi-era laws still in place prohibiting Christian proselytizing and the distribution or publication of Christian literature.
Conversion from Islam for a Libyan can carry the death penalty in regions of the country governed by Sharia Law. Any attempt by the foreign Christian population in the country to lead Libyans out of Islam is widely considered a threat to “national security and societal structures.”
According to Open Doors, Libya is the fifth most dangerous country worldwide for Christians.
Supreme Court temporarily keeps Abortion Kill Pill legal
Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to temporarily preserve access to the Abortion Kill Pill as a lawsuit against the drug works its way through the federal court system, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
The pro-abortion ruling, which was not explained, was decided in a 7-2 vote, with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito as the dissenting voices.
The case reached the nation’s highest court after U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas issued an order suspending the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s approval of the Abortion Kill Pill, mifepristone, finding the agency did not adequately investigate its long-term effects. The same day, U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice ruled in Spokane, Washington that it should remain on the market in 15 states and the District of Columbia.
The Biden administration challenged the April 7th ban on the Abortion Kill Pill.
Despite widespread accessibility, evidence shows that the Abortion Kill Pill carries specific risks for the mothers who take it (on top of being lethal to their preborn children), especially when the standards for taking them continue to be relaxed.
Google CEO earned $226 million
The pay package awarded to Google CEO Sundar Pichai soared to $226 million in 2022, boosted by a triennial stock grant, making him one of the world’s highest-paid corporate leaders, reports Yahoo Finance.
The stock award portion of his pay amounted to $218 million, according to a Friday filing from Alphabet, the Google parent company. He received a total of $6.3 million in compensation in 2021.
In January, Google started cutting 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its global workforce, following months of other measures to reduce spending and set new priorities. The median total compensation for Alphabet employees was $279,802 in 2022.
Senator Tim Scott announced presidential exploratory committee
On April 12th, Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican Senator, announced Wednesday that he has launched an exploratory committee for a potential 2024 presidential bid.
He made the announcement in a video, saying he would “never back down in defense of the conservative values that make America exceptional.”
Citing the first shots of the Civil War on April 12, 1861, Scott asserted that America is being torn apart today like it was back then.
SCOTT: “Joe Biden and the radical Left have chosen a culture of grievance over greatness. They’re promoting victimhood instead of personal responsibility. And they’re indoctrinating our children to believe we live in an evil country. And all too often, when they get called out for their failures, they weaponized race to divide us, to hold on to their power.
“When I fought back against their liberal agenda, they called me a ‘prop,’ a ‘token,’ because I disrupt their narrative. I threatened their control. They know the truth of my life disproves their lies.
“See, I was raised by a single mother in poverty. The spoons in our apartment were plastic, not silver. But we had faith, we put in the work, and we had an unwavering belief that we, too, could live the American dream. I know America is a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression. I know it because I’ve lived it.”
Christians to witness at largest Satanic Convention
And finally, SatanCon 2023 is fast approaching.
Christian intercessors from across America say they feel led by God to travel to Boston to witness to the thousands of Satanists who will be in attendance for what has been billed as the “largest satanic gathering in history,” reports The Christian Post.
The gathering, scheduled to take place in downtown Boston on April 28-30, is being touted as “Hexennacht in Boston,” a German phrase that means “Witches Night in Boston.”
The regional leaders in Boston for Intercessors For America — Scottish sisters Suzie and Lynn MacAskill — say hundreds of believers from several denominations will come together in unity, to pray for revival to break out amongst the attendees in Jesus’ name.
The Satanists should heed the same call issued by John the Baptist in Matthew 3:2. “Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
SatanCon 2023 is the Satanic temple’s 10-year anniversary, according to its website, and will feature discussion panels, satanic rituals, entertainment, a satanic wedding chapel and a demonic marketplace. The website pegs the event as “a weekend of blasphemy and remembrance in Boston.”
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