It’s Monday, July 7, 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
Pakistani Christian girl, kidnapped for two years, escapes
A Pakistani Christian girl, who this month escaped the Muslim who kidnapped her, said he forcibly converted her to Islam and repeatedly sexually assaulted her as his so-called “wife,” reports Morning Star News.
On the night of May 24, 2023, as her family slept, 14-year-old Muskan Liaqat was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home in Sheikhupura District, by Muhammad Adnan and his father Muhammad Arif.
Muskan said, “They took me to their home, where they tortured me and forcibly took my thumb impressions on some papers. I was later told that I had become a Muslim and Adnan was my husband.”
A member of the Salvation Army church, Muskan said she was treated as a sex slave.
She said, “I was raped and beaten by Adnan … on almost a daily basis. As a result of repeated sexual abuse, I got pregnant in 2024.” Severe torture by Adnan resulted in a miscarriage in the fourth month of her pregnancy.
She said, “I used to cry all night and prayed to God to rescue me from this hell, but it looked like my prayers were not reaching Him.” The trauma led her to attempt suicide by cutting her wrist.
Judges routinely ignore evidence related to the children’s ages, handing them back to kidnappers as their “legal wives.”
Thankfully, she got away and is now in a safe house.
According to Open Doors, Pakistan, which is 96% Muslim, is the eighth most dangerous country worldwide for Christians.
South Korean doctor charged with murder after full-term abortion
On July 2nd, a South Korean doctor was arrested and charged with murder following the abortion of a full-term baby last year, reigniting national debate over the country’s ambiguous abortion laws and medical ethics, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
On June 28, Judge Park Jeong-ho of the Seoul Central District Court approved arrest warrants for the surgeon, identified as Shim, and the facility’s director, “Yoon.”
Authorities allege the child was born alive and then deliberately left to die, which they say amounts to murder through “willful neglect.”
The case dates back to late 2024. Evidence suggests that the baby was alive both before and after the procedure.
The abortion was allegedly committed via labor induction – a method that, if resulting in a live birth followed by intentional death, could meet the legal definition of murder under Korean law.
The Korean Medical Association condemned the incident, stating: “A fetus at 36 weeks is a baby who could survive well if born, and terminating a pregnancy at this stage is tantamount to murder.”
Psalm 139:13-14 says, “For You [God] created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill defunded Planned Parenthood
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which he signed into law on Friday, July 4th, defunded Planned Parenthood for a year, reports LifeNews.com.
The defunding provision, outlined in Section 44126 of the bill, effectively terminates Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood for non-abortion services, closing a loophole that has allowed the organization to access federal funds despite the Hyde Amendment’s ban on direct taxpayer funding for abortions. Pro-life critics have argued that those Medicaid reimbursements indirectly paid for the abortion giant to kill more babies by abortion.
It is the first time that the radical Planned Parenthood abortion business has been defunded.
The vote, as we reported on Friday, was 218-214.
The new law will redirect hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to community-based, pro-life healthcare providers and away from Planned Parenthood and Big Abortion.
Planned Parenthood, which kills over 400,000 babies in abortions annually, received $700 million in taxpayer funds last fiscal year.
Death toll in Texas flash floods climbs to 79, 40 remain missing
At least 70 people are dead in central Texas after devastating flash floods slammed the Texas Hill Country, with water rescues taking place along the Guadalupe River, which rose rapidly early Friday morning to the height of a two-story building, reports CBS News.
(Watch this video to see the rushing water in Center Point, Texas which tears down trees and threatens a bridge.)
A dozen are still missing from Camp Mystic in Kerr County, a children’s Christian summer camp.
13-year-old Stella Thompson, a camper who survived, talked with the Dallas NBC affiliate.
THOMPSON: “You’d see kayaks in trees. It was horrific, because we had no idea. First responders in the water. There were huge trees ripped out of the ground.”
Tragically, in a last act of kindness, Richard Eastland, the director of Camp Mystic, died trying to save campers as floodwaters from the Guadalupe River overwhelmed the camp, which is on the banks of the river, reports the San Antonio Express-News. More than 750 girls were at the camp when the flooding struck.
The dead include 38 adults and 21 children, with 18 of the adults and four of the children unidentified.
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott spoke from the heart.
ABBOTT: “When Texans face a challenge, we come together, we unite. We will be relentless in going after and ensuring that we locate every single person who’s been a victim of this flooding event. We’re not going to stop today or tomorrow. We will stop when the job is completed. This is a 24/7 operation, day and night. We will find every one of them.”
Dear Lord, Help the First Responders rescue all of the remaining survivors of this horrific flood. Amen.
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22-year-old woman survives, carried 20 miles downstream
One bright spot.
A 22-year-old woman, who was carried by the raging waters 20 miles from Hunt, Texas to Center Point, survived as she clung to a tree.
Carl, who lives along the Guadalupe River, explained what happened to KENS-TV 5.
CARL: “True miracle. There’s no other way to explain it.
“I came up on the deck and she saw me. So, she started to scream out loud. I thought she was in the water going down the river. I finally looked and was able to spot her in the tree. I began to holler back to her. ‘Hey, I see you. We’ll get you help. Hang on. Hang on.’ Because she was desperate!
“After they were able to pluck her out, we brought her into our house and gave her a shower, clothed her because it had stripped all of her clothing off, gave her something to drink, gave her a nap. We called her grandmother in Corpus.”
Thankfully, she had no broken bones and only a small wound on the top of her head.
Worldview listeners in Colorado and California speak out
And finally, two Worldview listeners wrote me at Adam@TheWorldview.com to share what they enjoy about the newscast.
Wes Anderson in Grand Junction, Colorado, wrote, “I try to read The Worldview in 5 Minutes transcript every day. I appreciate the Biblical perspective on the news! It’s nice to have a news source I can trust!”
And Pastor Aaron Hebbard of Remnant Church in Mentone, California, wrote, “Here’s what I like:
- I love the snapshot of the big issues of the day without having to spend precious time chasing various stories.
- I treasure the news on the persecuted church; it prompts prayer on behalf of our global brothers and sisters, and sets the stage for the unfathomable things Christ will do with the precious blood of His saints.
- I appreciate the occasional call to activism, whether it’s a phone call or email to a local politician, or support for a cause, or to join a prayer movement.”
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And that’s The Worldview on this Monday, July 7th, in the year of our Lord 2025. Follow us on X or subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I’m Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.