It’s Friday, March 6th, A.D. 2026. 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
Iran’s new Ayatollah vows to ‘shed Trump’s blood’
An Iranian ayatollah called for the “shedding” of President Donald Trump’s blood in a chilling revenge statement broadcast on Iranian state television on Thursday, reports The Express.
Ayatollah Javadi Amoli – one of Iran’s most senior Islamic clerics – declared that the nation was “on the verge of a great test” and urged “the shedding of Zionist blood, the shedding of Trump’s blood” on state television.
Exiled Iranian Prince commends Trump for bombing Iran
By contrast, in an interview on CBS’ 60 Minutes, Prince Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the deposed last Shah of Iran, a leader of the opposition to the Iranian Islamic Republic, commended President Donald Trump for bombing the Iranian military sites.
PAHLAVI: “My message to President Trump is that I’m here to echo and join millions of my compatriots inside and outside of Iran to thank him for having the courage to do what is not easy, but intervene. He will go down in the annals of Iranian history as the most celebrated foreign leader that changed the ball game and changed the world as a result.”
Pahlavi, who has lived in exile 47 years, is the most prominent figure in the opposition to the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
(Watch 60 Minutes Overtime for more of the interview)
Former homosexual acquitted for describing Christian conversion
In what is viewed as an important international victory for freedom of speech and religion, Matthew Grech, a singer and former X-Factor contestant who has been prosecuted in Maltese courts for three long years for having spoken out publicly about leaving homosexuality, was acquitted Thursday morning, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
He was joyous outside the courthouse.
GRECH: “I’m standing with my friends and colleagues here at the Maltese courts, and I want to tell you guys that we won. The court has decided in our favor and has pronounced me and the co-accused as innocent.
“It is a big day. I’m very thankful that the Maltese courts decided for freedom of speech. The Maltese courts decided for freedom of religion and has announced that I had every right to share my Christian views around sexuality and gender, and to mention organizations that are helping Christians to live consistently with their belief system.”
Matthew Grech cited 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.
“The Bible says in the book of Corinthians some of you were homosexuals, adulterers, you name it, but you were washed, sanctified, justified in the name of Lord Jesus. This is the good news. This is the Gospel. It offers hope, change and transformation.”
Trump fires DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
TRUMP: “You’re fired!”
On Thursday, after a painful couple of days of testimony before Congress, Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, was fired by President Donald Trump, reports ABC News.
In addition to the expected attacks from Democratic Senators on DHS, Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana asked Secretary Noem pointed questions about whether President Trump signed off on her decision to authorize $220 million on Homeland Security ads which prominently featured her.
Listen.
NOEM: “I have a policy in place that I review contracts. My deputy chiefs have the ability to review anything under $5 million. Above that, I evaluate and look at.”
KENNEDY: “Okay, and you do that, I understand, to try to curb waste and abuse of taxpayer money. Is that right?”
NOEM: “Yes, sir. In fact, it’s been extremely effective.”
KENNEDY: “How do you square that concern for waste, which I share, with the fact that you have spent $220 million running television advertisements that feature you prominently?”
NOEM: “Sir, the president tasked me with getting the message out to the country, and to other countries where we were seeing the invasion come from, with putting commercials out that told them that if they were in this country illegally, that they needed to leave, or we would detain them and remove them, and they’d not get the chance to come back to America the right way. That has been extremely effective.”
(crosstalk)
KENNEDY: “The president asked you to run these advertisements. Is that right?”
NOEM: “We had that conversation, yes, before I was put in this position and sworn in and confirmed, and since then as well.”
KENNEDY: “Okay. You’re testifying that President Trump approved this ahead of time. Is that my understanding?”
NOEM: “We had conversations about making sure that we were telling people across …”
KENNEDY: “No, ma’am, I’m asking you, sorry to interrupt, but the President approved ahead of time you spending $220 million running TV ads across the country in which you are featured prominently?”
NOWEM: “Yes, sir, we went through the legal processes. worked with [Office of Management and Budget].”
KENNEDY: “Did the president know you were going to do this?
NOEM: “Yes.”
KENNEDY: “He did?”
NOEM: “Yes.”
KENNEDY: “Okay.”
In response, President Trump told Reuters, “I never knew anything about it.” RedState.com speculates that the exchange between GOP Senator Kennedy and Kristi Noem was her undoing.
Shortly after his comments to Reuters, Trump posted to Truth Social that Noem would be replaced. The president said he was “pleased to announce that the Highly Respected United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, effective March 31, 2026.”
This marks the first Cabinet secretary Trump has fired in his second term.
Anniversary of Christian martyrdom of 22-year-old Perpetua
And finally, the church remembers the martyrdom of Perpetua, a 22-year-old Christian noblewoman in Carthage, North Africa on March 7th A.D. 203.
She was executed alongside Felicity, a pregnant slave woman imprisoned with her, to cruelly celebrate the birthday of Caesar Geta, the son of emperor Septimius Severus.
Simply because they were Christians, they were flogged, attacked by hungry leopards, and finally beheaded.
Listen to this excerpt from a 30-minute animated video in The Torchlighter Series.
PRISON CARETAKER: “As prison caretaker doing duty in the stench-filled underground cells, I’ve gotten a glimpse of many a prisoner’s own faith or lack of it.
MAN: “Please no. I don’t want to die.”
PRISON CARETAKER: “I don’t judge them. I too would fear the mauling beasts and death. But what I saw today in a young woman and her companions, such courage I have never seen before.”
Joshua 1:9 says, “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
You can get the animated Perpetua Story DVD through a special link in our transcript today at www.TheWorldview.com.
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