It’s Tuesday, October 13th, 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 Kevin Swanson, Timothy Reed, and Adam McManus
Nigerian Muslims killed 12 Christians
Truth Nigeria reports that Fulani Muslim jihadists killed 12 Christians, including a 4-year-old child, in two separate attacks in Benue State, Nigeria late last week.
The assailants reportedly moved from house to house, shouting Allahu Akbar, which means the Muslim god is greater, while attacking residents with machetes.
Meanwhile, across Nigeria’s Adamawa State, Boko Haram Muslim jihadists were conducting genocide, burning villages, and destroying churches.
One woman, who witnessed the carnage, told Truth Nigeria: “Neither women nor children are spared. They kill the men and kidnap the women for sex slavery. Our only offense is that we are Christians. They came in the night and killed dozens of Christians on October 1st and now even on following days.”
Clearly, the need for your prayers right now for the saints in Nigeria is urgent.
In the words of Habakkuk 1:2, “O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and You will not hear? Or cry to You ‘Violence!’ and You will not save?”
Canada has lost 68,000 jobs
The Canadian economy continues to slump, as the country marked 68,000 lost jobs in the month of September. This is the second straight month in which the country has lost jobs, despite economist predictions of gains in both August and September.
The unemployment rate in Canada now sits at 6.5 percent, and labor force participation is at its lowest rate in nearly 30 years.
Following the news, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre stated, “We will unblock resources, scrap taxes on fuel and reinvestments here at home, remove red tape, and make Canada the best place in the world to hire and boost pay.”
Jair Bolsonaro leads socialist in Brazil’s run-off election
The more “right” candidate for Brazil’s presidency is leading in the polls by six points, as the nation heads into a run-off election scheduled for October 25th.
The AtlasIntel/Bloomberg Poll puts Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, ahead of the incumbent socialist candidate, Lula da Silva.
Mortgage rates hit 7.5 percent
Here in the United States, 30-year mortgage rates hit 7.5 percent over the weekend.
Rates were this high about 27 years ago.
Fewer Americans believe in Virgin Birth, Hell or God
Only 49 percent of Americans believe in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, according to a recent report from the American Bible Society’s “State of the Bible.” That’s down from 66 percent in 2017.
Other big take-aways from the report:
- only 44 percent of Gen Zers believe in Hell, down from 57 percent for the Gen Xers.
- 74 percent of women believe in God, compared to 62 percent of men.
In 1980, the Gallup poll reported that 90 percent of Americans believed in God.
Psalm 36:1-2 explains it this way. “Concerning the transgression of the wicked: there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flatters himself in his own eyes.”
3 GOP states to Supreme Court: Stop abortion “shield” laws
The civil war on the Abortion Kill Pill is heating up between the states.
Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana are heading to the U.S. Supreme Court to challenge the abortion “shield laws” enacted by certain Democratic-controlled states, reports ABC News. These shield laws protect abortion providers in three Democratic states that ship the Abortion Kill Pill over state lines.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is deliberating over whether to impose more regulation on mifepristone and the kill-pill-by-mail program because of safety issues. That decision should be out in March of next year.
America delays termination of Temporary Protected Status
The United States government is holding off on its plan to terminate Temporary Protected Status for El Salvadoran immigrants.
The New American put the decision in contrast with Trump’s decisions on immigration from other countries. The magazine reported, “So far in Trump’s second term, his administration has terminated or is attempting to terminate Temporary Protected Status designations for 13 countries — Afghanistan, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen — affecting more than one million migrants.”
Temporary Protected Status remains in effect for four countries, namely El Salvador, Lebanon, Sudan, and Ukraine.
The chaos in government schools
U.S. public schools are still failing.
Recent results for 15-year-old students issued by the Programme for International Student Assessment indicate a 24-point drop in math skills since 2009, and a 14-point drop in reading skills since 2018.
But the big issue now is concerning student behavior.
The EdWeek Research Center surveyed 5,800 teachers and found that 35 percent of teachers report a lot worse student behavior this year over last year. Plus, 64 percent of teachers are saying student behavior had worsened over all. This has made the job for teachers “almost impossible,” according to the report.
One sentence summarized the problem this way: “Kicking. Yelling. Throwing school supplies across the room. Physical violence.”
Chaos in the classroom. That is reportedly an everyday occurrence for American government schools.
Former Iowa City Councilman prays: “Hail Satan!”
And finally, this from Ottumwa, Iowa, with a population of 25,000, where a former city council member, Matt Dalbey, led off the council meeting on October 6th with a Satanic prayer.
DALBEY: “Let us pray, dear Dark Father. Let us stand now unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds in darkened times. Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the tree of knowledge, and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old.
“Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations. Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true.
“Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of one or all. That which will not bend must break, and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. It is done. Hail Satan!”
This prayer to Satan comes after the Ottumwa, Iowa City Council issued a new “diversity” policy. It said, “This policy is intended to acknowledge and express the City Council’s respect for the diversity of both organized and unorganized religious denominations, as well as other faiths, belief systems, or the lack thereof.”
Thankfully, after the Pledge of Allegiance, Pastor Rick Bick of New Life Center objected, reports the Washington Stand. Outraged by the prayer to Satan, Pastor Bick eschewed proper decorum, walked up to the same podium where the Satanic prayer had just occurred, and demanded that the city council reverse that curse. Sadly, Councilwoman Cara Galloway interrupted him.
PASTOR BICK: “Let’s just reverse that curse that was just put on our city. That ending with ‘Hail, Satan’ and ‘Hail, Dark God.’ That’s not welcome here.”
COUNCILWOMAN CARA GALLOWAY: “Mayor.”
MAYOR BENJAMIN FOOTE: “Yeah.”
COUNCILWOMAN GALLOWAY: “This should be done at the end.”
PASTOR BICK: “It needs to be done now. Okay? That was a curse put on our city when you said, ‘Hail Satan’ and ‘O Dark God.’ Most of you know that, and we need to just stop and reverse it.”
According to the Christian Post, Ottumwa Iowa Mayor Benjamin Foote, a Bible-believing Christian, said he was “shocked” by the invocation to Satan. In response to Pastor Bick’s request, Mayor Foote said this.
MAYOR FOOTE: “I’m going to invite us into a 30-second time of prayer. Or time of silence. A time of silence.”
COUNCILWOMAN GALLOWAY: “No, I, we are at the consent agenda. I’m sorry, but it’s time to move forward.”
MAYOR FOOTE: “So, as mayor of the city of Ottumwa, as mayor of the city of Ottumwa, and the one running the meeting, I’m going to ask right now that we do a moment of silence to reflect on whatever it is we need to reflect on at this time, and then we will move to the consent agenda. So, with that, we’ll go into a moment of silence.”
(You can watch Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council, interview Pastor Rick Bick for 7 minutes on Washington Watch heard on 800 radio stations).
In a subsequent interview with The Christian Post, Mayor Foote said, “I am a born-again Christian, a prayer warrior, and place all my faith in Jesus Christ. Personally, I of course do not believe or condone worship to Satan or any other god, but to the one true God Almighty. … My prayer is that this will be used by God to awaken the Church in Ottumwa and we will fight against the evil that is constantly trying to destroy us.”
Indeed, Ephesians 6:12 says, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Councilman Bill Hoffman Jr. confirmed that the invocation was approved under city policy but said the mayor and council members “are not aware of the content beforehand.” The entire policy is now under review.
Join me and send a polite, 4-sentence note of encouragement to Mayor Benjamin Foote, City of Ottumwa, 303 East Main Street, Ottumwa, Iowa 52501.
Close
And that’s The Worldview on this Tuesday, October 13th in the year of our Lord 2026. 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.