It’s Monday, April 20th, 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
Russia strikes Ukrainian Baptist church killing pastor at prayer meeting
Russia struck a Baptist church in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia during a prayer meeting, killing at least one person, a minister, and injuring at least eight others, reports The Christian Post.
The Embassy of Ukraine in the U.S. gave the casualty figures in a public statement issued while rescue workers were still on the scene, identifying the targeted building as The House of the Gospel Church, which had served the community for years, according to the Baptist Press. The embassy called the strike a deliberate attack on people of faith who had gathered peacefully to pray.
Promoters of a documentary series entitled “A Faith Under Siege” on Russia’s persecution of Christians, identified the man killed as Ruslan Utyuzh, a minister at the bombed church. Utyuzh is survived by his wife and two children.
Psalm 116:15 says, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.”
Despite the attack, the congregation held services as normal the following morning with a large turnout, and 200 people came forward to be baptized.
Iran reverses course on reopening Strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump said Iran “can’t blackmail us” after the country announced they were reimposing restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday morning, reports Fox News.
He added, “We have very good conversations going on. It’s working out very well. They got a little cute, as they have been doing for 47 years, and nobody ever took them on. We took them on. They have no Navy. They have no Air Force. They have no leaders. They have no nothing. … It is regime change.”
Despite Iran wanting to close the strait again, Trump said in the Oval Office that negotiations are “going actually along very well.” Trump also cited how oil tankers are now coming to U.S. ports to fuel up, including in Texas and Louisiana.
President Trump said, “We’re taking a tough stand. They’ve killed a lot of people. A lot of our people have been killed. A lot of your fellow soldiers have been killed over the years by Iran.” He cited how he ordered the strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force, in January 2020.
Trump described Soleimani as the “father of the roadside bomb.” He explained, “When you see soldiers with no legs, with no arms or face that’s been smashed, that was Soleimani, it was Iran that did that. So we have a much different view on it than other presidents. They’ve gotten away with murder for 47 years. They’re not getting away with it anymore.”
While Iran wants to keep enriched uranium, Trump won’t allow that
Iran had sought an agreement allowing them to “down-blend” their enriched uranium. According to Axios, “A top priority for the Trump administration is ensuring Iran can’t access the stockpile of nearly 4,400 pounds of enriched uranium buried in its underground nuclear facilities, in particular the 992 pounds enriched to 60% purity.”
The Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation noted that most commercial nuclear power plants use 3 to 5 percent enriched uranium compared to 90 percent enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.
Before the outbreak of the war, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News that in March, Iranian negotiators boasted to him that they had enough enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear weapons.
He explained that the Iranian negotiators apparently said “they had the inalienable right to enrich all their nuclear fuel that they possessed. We, of course, responded that the president feels we have the inalienable right to stop you dead in your tracks.”
The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz initiated last Monday was costing Iran up to $435 million a day, including $276 million in lost exports. The blockade, coupled with weeks of air strikes from the U.S. and Israel, which devastated Iran’s steel and petrochemical facilities, has the country’s economy on the brink of collapse.
Homosexual “dads” mock their surrogate-born baby for crying “mama”
A homosexual male couple has triggered outrage across the internet after posting a video of themselves mocking their surrogate-born baby for crying “mama,” reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Country music singer and songwriter Shane McAnally, a homosexual, posted the video of his faux “husband” Michael Baum lying on a couch, playfully bouncing the baby on his stomach as he asks, “Who do you want, Dada or Pop?”
BAUM: “Who do you want Dada or Pop?”
BABY: “Mama, ma.”
BAUM: “Do you want Dada or Pop?”
BABY: (fusses)
BAUM: “Who do you want? Dada or Pop?”
BABY: “Mom.”
BAUM: ”Nope. Do you want dada? You want pop?
BABY: “Mom.”
BAUM: “No way, Jose. There is no mama.”
BABY: (starts crying)
BAUM: “So sorry. You have Dada and Pop.”
McANALLY: “Two choices.”
BABY: (cries more)
BAUM: “No Mama.”
Oddly enough, they posted that video on line. Officials with Surrogacy Concern, an organization that seeks to end the evils of surrogacy, wondered, “Who films their child crying and uploads it to the internet? And who subjects a child to their pathetic vanity like this? Babies need their birth mothers.”
And children’s rights activist Chris Elston, better known as “Billboard Chris,” wrote, “These men laugh as the baby cries and says ‘ma ma ma.’ They think it’s funny because ‘there is no mama,’ This baby was designed to never have a mother so that two men could satisfy their selfish desires. It’s impossible for a normal person to watch this without instinctual disgust.”
In Matthew 19:4-5, Jesus asked, ““Haven’t you read, that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?”
Anniversary of death of Martin Luther’s aid who translated Bible
And finally, on April 20, 1558, Johannes Bugenhagen, the prominent Lutheran reformer and pastor who helped Martin Luther translate the Bible, died.
He said, ““The church is not a place but a people, gathered by the Word of God and sustained by faith.”
Bugenhagen also explained that “True worship is not found in outward ceremonies, but in a heart that trusts in God’s grace.”
The Lutheran reformer introduced the Protestant Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century.
After the death of Luther in 1546, Bugenhagen kindly took care of Luther’s widow, Katharina von Bora, and Luther’s children.
Proverbs 21:21 says, “Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.”
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