It’s Tuesday, April 8th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Kevin Swanson
Horrific Muslim persecution of Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Gatestone Institute’s International Policy Center has released its report on the persecution of Christians in Africa.
The report claims that the West is ignoring the carnage playing out in Sub-Sahara Africa, and that Muslim “Jihadists are murdering, raping, torturing, kidnapping, enslaving, and, in some instances, burning people alive — across Africa, and now in Syria.”
The newly-installed Syrian government and the al-Qaeda-affiliated HTS terrorists, are still conducting door-to-door purges, massacring religious minorities in cruel, sadistic ways. Reliable reports indicate they have massacred 7,000 Christians and Alawites, a sect of Islam. And the death toll is still rising.
Jihad is spreading in at least twelve African nations.
Muslim jihadists beheaded 70 Christians in the Congo in February. Church leaders are targeted, abducted, tortured, and murdered. Christian villages have been burned down. Plus, pastors, priests and lay Christians have been abducted by the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces.
More than 16.2 million Christians in Sub-Saharan Africa have been driven from their homes by jihadist violence and conflict. Women and girls are abducted, forced into “marriage,” forced to convert to Islam, raped, and subjected to forced labor. Some are forced to act as suicide bombers or human shields at the hands of jihadis.
Boko Haram and the Islamic State West African Province regularly attack, abduct, and murder Christians in Cameroon located in Central Africa. Churches have been set on fire and church leaders and seminary students kidnapped. Plus, the report claims that no Christian is safe in Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa. Hundreds of churches there have been closed.
The Muslim-run nation of Libya, in North Africa on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, countenances widespread slavery, forced labor, and human trafficking. Sharia law is strictly upheld. For a Muslim to convert to Christianity is a crime punishable by death. Any Libyan woman suspected of associating with Christians faces house arrest, sexual assault, forced marriage, or even death.
Nigeria remains the worst example of Jihadist murder and mayhem. Tens of thousands of Christians have been murdered and thousands of women and girls have been abducted and subjected to sexual violence.
But, do keep in mind what Jesus said in Matthew 16:18. He declared, “On this rock, I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”
British Christian nurse in trouble for referring to confused man as man
More outrageousness from the United Kingdom.
A nurse has lost her job with the National Health Service because she was caught referring to a pedophile transgender person as a “Mister.” Nurse Jennifer Melle, age 40, was fired from her job in Carshalton, Surrey, after having to endure the patient hurling racial slurs at her.
She added, “I am devastated to have been suspended. … Despite being the one placed at risk, I am the one being punished. The message I have received is clear: I am expected to tolerate racism, deny biological reality, and suppress my deeply-held Christian beliefs.”
Appearing on Free Speech Nation, she shared her Biblical convictions.
MELLE: “I thank Jesus for giving me the courageous spirit, standing on the Word of God. According to the Word of God, Genesis 1:27 said, ‘God created a male and female.’ I just stood by it. I said, ‘Well, I’m a Christian woman, and I love the Lord, and I know beyond male and female is an abomination to the Lord. And I can’t do that.’”
Represented by the Christian Legal Centre, Andrea Williams, its chief executive, criticized the National Health Service for allegedly focusing on trans ideology instead of protecting its staff from racial and physical abuse.
U.S.-China tariff war heats up
The tit-for-tat tariff war with China is heating up.
On Friday, China announced a 34% tariff on U.S. imports as an answer to President Trump’s 34% reciprocal tariff.
Yesterday, the U.S. president announced an additional tariff of 50% effective tomorrow, unless China backs down, reports CBS News.
Aboard Air Force One on Sunday night, President Trump did not pull any punches.
TRUMP: “When you look at the trade deficit that we have with certain countries, way over a billion [dollars] per country. With China, it’s a trillion dollars. And we have to solve our trade deficit with China. We have a trillion dollar trade deficit with China. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year we lose with China. And unless we solve that problem, I’m not going to make a deal.
“Now, I’m willing to deal with China, but they have to solve their surplus. We have a tremendous deficit problem with China. They have a surplus of at least a trillion dollars a year. And I want that solved. No other President has taken it on.”
New Yorkers need “good moral character” before carrying handgun
The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a New York law that requires residents to demonstrate “good moral character” before they are permitted to carry a handgun.
The law requires applicants to have “the essential character, temperament and judgement necessary to be entrusted with a weapon and to use it only in a manner that does not endanger oneself or others.”
Stocks, Dow Jones, and Nasdaq down
U.S. stocks are down over the last week.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 4,000 points, 11% down for the year.
And the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was down by about 2,000 points, settling around 15,570 points on Monday evening. The Nasdaq is down 19% on the year, about where it was in November 2021.
Court awards 7,000 sexual abuse victims $4 billion in Los Angeles
While the state-controlled foster care system is supposed to protect children, the unaccountable system, made up of sinful men and women, has become the predator.
Last week, the courts awarded a record $4 billion against the Los Angeles County’s juvenile detention and foster care system. The settlement was the largest of this kind, distributed to 7,000 plaintiffs — victims of unspeakable sexual abuse.
L.A. officials have issued concerns that the fine might bankrupt the county.
The rise of America’s “assassination culture”
The Network of Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab have issued a report concerned with a rising “assassination culture” in the United States.
Especially troubling is the view that 31% of respondents stated it would be at least somewhat justifiable to murder Elon Musk. And 38% said it would be at least somewhat justifiable to murder President Donald Trump. Among those who identify left of center, 48% to 55% would justify these assassinations.
22 million watched House of David finale
And finally, the producers of the Amazon-released program, House of David, announced over the weekend, that the season finale had achieved #1 on Prime.
WatchWonderProject took to Instagram with a message: “All glory to God!”
Thus far, the program has brought in 22 million viewers. Of Amazon’s new releases in 2025, House of David has taken the top position, holding its own in the top 10 for 38 days.
Producer and writer for House of David, Jon Erwin, previously produced Christian films like October Baby, I Can Only Imagine, and American Underdog.
The studio has announced a forthcoming Season 2.
Let us not forget David’s greater Son who reigns today, over all. Luke 1:32 declares, “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to Him the throne of his father David.”
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British Prime Minister: Time to focus on Britain
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke yesterday, indicating an end to globalization, and a return to nation’s focusing in on their own national interests, reports The Independent.
He called the present times “a completely new world.”
Former Brazilian president thanked God for Trump’s re-election
Brazil’s previous president Jair Bolsonaro addressed a peaceful protest of 40,000 in Sao Paulo over the weekend, thanking God publicly that Donald Trump was re-elected in the United States, reports Breitbart.
Bolsonaro told the crowd, “I have nothing but gratitude for the two years we spent together in our respective presidencies.”