It’s Monday, October 12th, 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
Imprisoned Chinese Pastor Wang Yi has advanced liver cancer
The Chinese Communists imprisoned Early Rain Covenant Church Pastor Wang Yi in southwestern China. Today, he may be suffering from advanced liver cancer, reports ChinaAid.
Yi has been imprisoned since December 2018. He was sentenced in December 2019 to nine years in prison on trumped up Communist charges of “inciting subversion of state power” and “illegal business operations.” He is currently held at the Jintang Prison.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom currently lists Wang as a religious prisoner of conscience and has recorded reports of medical neglect in his case.
Since October 2021, when his wife was allowed her first meeting with Yi in three years of imprisonment, meaningful family access since then has remained severely restricted.
ChinaAid Founder and President Rev. Bob Fu called for immediate access to Wang. He said, “The world is watching. Pastor Wang Yi must not be allowed to die behind prison walls in secrecy. His family deserves to see him, to know his true medical condition, and to be involved in decisions concerning his treatment.”
Leviticus 19:32, says, “You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God.”
Wang is approaching the final portion of his nine-year sentence, which is expected to conclude in 2027.
Send a polite, 4-sentence note to the Chinese Ambassador to America, Xie Feng, urging him to tell Chinese President Xi Jinping to release Pastor Wang Yi. Send your letter to the Chinese Embassy, 3505 International Place NW, Washington, DC 20008.
Iran-backed Houthis fire missile at Saudi Arabian airport
The international airport in Saudi Arabia‘s capital, Riyadh, was attacked on Saturday by a missile which struck terminals 3 and 4 for domestic flights, wounding many people, reports the Associated Press.
Earlier in the week, in this new front in the Iran war, the Houthis, a terrorist group backed by Iran, claimed attacks on the airport that killed three Saudis, including a pilot.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he was evaluating whether the United States should join Saudi Arabia with strikes against the Tehran-backed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen.
Four killed by Hurricane Isaias in Florida
Four people were killed on October 9th after deadly Hurricane Isaias hit the southeast “like a freight train” as the Category 2 storm’s 105 mile-per-hour winds blew through Destin, Florida, at around 9:30 p.m. ET. Localized gusts reached 116 miles per hour.
Three people died from downed trees, while another was killed by fumes from a generator. At least five others have been hospitalized.
8 killed in Pennsylvania home by gunman
On the same day, man-made tragedy struck Erie, Pennsylvania.
On October 9th, eight people were shot dead including two young children and a woman who was eight months pregnant, reports Fox News.
Plus, the suspected shooter, a 45-year-old man who was related to the victims, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The motive of the gunman is as yet unknown.
Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said, “It was horrific. It was the worst scene I have ever experienced,” reports ABC News.
And Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro said, “My heart breaks for this family. Lori and I are praying for their loved ones and the entire Erie community.”
Justice Alito upset with Obergefell which legalized “gay” marriage
A new collection of remarks by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito highlights the conservative jurist’s conviction that the forced redefinition of marriage, to include homosexual couples, marked “perhaps the decisive point in our nation’s turn against religious liberty,” reports LifeSiteNews.com.
In his new book entitled So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, ABC News noted that he addressed the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. This was the 2015 case in which the nation’s highest court forced all 50 states to recognize faux homosexual marriages. Alito was among the dissenters, along with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas.
In a 2018 speech, the Catholic justice, appointed by former President George W. Bush, said, “My worry [is] that equating the expression of certain views with bigotry — or, if you like, with dignitary harm — would drive believers out of public life.”
Then, in a 2022 speech, Alito argued his fears have since been vindicated.
Citing various attempts to force private businesses to serve homosexual so-called “weddings” or where Christian groups were denied religious exemptions to health and employment mandates pertaining to homosexuality, he said, “Quite suddenly, religious liberty has become controversial. What we see in these and other cases is a refusal to live in peace with those who violate the new moral code.”
In 2021, Alito noted that Americans opposed to homosexual faux marriage found themselves “so beaten down that they were ‘a people who shunned the light of day.’ They were ‘found in corners, and alleys, and cellars, and the housetops, or in the recesses of the country.’”
Sadly, Justice Alito said he thinks overturning Obergefell is unlikely.
ABC stressed that the religious parties ultimately prevailed in “nearly all” of the cases Alito cites, but that has not slowed the persistence of such challenges. For example, Colorado baker Jack Phillips, a Christian, won a 2018 Supreme Court case over his right to refuse to create homosexual “wedding” cakes, yet was dragged back to court years later over demands to create a “transgender” cake.
Even if the Supreme Court reversed Obergefell, recognition of homosexual faux marriage would still be mandatory nationwide, thanks to former President Joe Biden signing the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act,” which codified Obergefell in 2023.
Thirty-two states still have duly enacted bans on homosexual faux marriage. Unfortunately, those bans have been blocked from enforcement since Obergefell.
Kentucky abortions dropped from 4,441 to just 5 annually
And finally, ready for some good news?
Kentucky has seriously protected unborn babies from abortion.
Back in 2022, Kentucky abortionists killed 4,441 babies in the womb. By contrast, in 2025, just five brick-and-mortar abortions were reported in Kentucky by the state’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services, reports LifeNews.com.
After Roe v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022, the state prohibited abortion from conception on the very same day. The law was then blocked on June 30, but went back into effect later that summer on August 1 and has remained in effect since.
The state’s life-at-conception law only allows abortion in cases where a continued pregnancy would threaten the life and/or physical health of the mother. All 5 brick-and-mortar abortions reported by the state were performed because of these exceptions.
Due to Kentucky’s law prohibiting elective abortions, no abortions were performed at Planned Parenthood abortion mills in Kentucky or independent abortion mills. All five abortions were performed at hospitals.
In Psalm 139:13-14, David told God, “For You formed my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works; my soul knows it very well.”
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