It’s Tuesday, January 7th, 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
Islam is the number one threat to Christians today
International Christian Concern has issued their Global Persecution Index for 2024 — placing the countries of Nigeria,Niger, Sudan, Congo, Eritrea, Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and North Korea at the highest level “where Christians are regularly tortured and killed for their faith.”
Each of these, except North Korea, is an Islamic country. As an ideology, Islam has replaced communism as the most serious threat to Christians in the world.
Abortion is leading cause of death worldwide
Referring to data from Worldometer, Breitbart News announced that abortion was the leading cause of deaths in 2024. A record of 45 million babies died at this count.
That compares to 8.2 million people who died from cancer, 5 million from smoking, 1.7 million from HIV/AIDS, 1.35 million from traffic fatalities, and 1.1 million people died from suicide.
Kamala Harris certifies Trump’s presidential victory
Here in the United States, the November presidential election results were certified by the U.S. Senate on Monday, reports NBC News.
Ironically, Vice President Kamala Harris, the presidential loser, had the unenviable task as President of the Senate of certifying that her opponent, Donald Trump, won the election in a landslide. Trump is set to become the 47th President of the United States come January 20th.
Notice that when she announces Trump’s name the Republicans burst out in a cheer and a standing ovation. Not to be outdone, the Democrats applaud Kamala when she announces her electoral vote total.
Listen.
HARRIS: “The state of the vote for the president of the United States, as delivered to the President of the Senate, is as follows. The whole number of the electors appointed to vote for President of the United States is 538. Within that whole number, the majority is 270.
“The votes for president of the United States are as follows: Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida, has received 312 votes. Kamala D. Harris…”
(Republicans applaud)
(Harris bangs the gavel twice)
HARRIS: “Kamala D. Harris of the state of California has received 226 votes.”
(Democrats applaud)
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigns
After months of abysmal polling predicting a massive Conservative victory in the fall 2025 Canadian presidential election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced yesterday that he intends to resign as Prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party, reports Reuters.
TRUDEAU: “I intend to resign as party leader as prime minister after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide competitive process. Last night, I asked the president of the Liberal Party to begin that process. This country deserves a real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if I am having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election.”
Trudeau, age 53, took office in November 2015 with a message of hope and “sunny ways” and won re-election twice, becoming one of Canada’s longest-serving prime ministers and winning plaudits from liberals for his focus on gender parity policies.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who is running for Prime Minister, offered this reaction.
POILIEVRE: “Canadians desperate to turn the page on this dark chapter in our history might be relieved today that Justin Trudeau is finally leaving. But what has really changed? Every liberal [Member of Parliament] in power today and every potential liberal leadership contender, fighting for the top job, helped Justin Trudeau break the country over the last nine years.
“All liberal politicians actively worked to pass into law the job-killing, inflationary carbon tax, a tax that Carbon Tax [Mark] Carney endorsed in his book. All supported a law quadrupling the tax over the next five years. All voted for or actively supported Trudeau’s out-of-control spending, debt, and immigration. All passed Trudeau’s housing policies that doubled the cost of homes. All liberal politicians helped pass catch-and-release bail and house arrest for the most rampant re-offenders, policies that increased violent crime 50%, gun crime 116%, and hate crime by 250%.
“So, given that liberal [Members of Parliament] and leadership contenders unanimously supported everything Trudeau has done, why dump him now, right before an election?
“Have they had a change of heart? Is it because they feel guilty that they doubled housing costs, hiked taxes, unleashed crime, broke immigration, forced a quarter of the population into poverty? No! They continued supporting Trudeau when he did all of those things. No, their only objection is that he is no longer popular enough to win an election and keep them in power.”
Biden awards evolutionists, socialists and God-haters
Evolutionists, socialists, and opponents of Christianity received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden, as he prepared to leave office, reports USA Today.
Jane Goodall and Bill Nye, the Evolutionist Guy, received the award.
Also receiving the top citizen award included Hillary Clinton and George Soros, the man responsible for persecuting Christians and conservatives through Right Wing Watch and People for the American Way.
Proverbs 28:4 reminds us that “Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but such as keep the law contend with them.”
Massive snow storm cancels 1,300 flights
That massive snow storm across Kansas and eastern states, has closed down flights. In God’s providence, over 1,300 flights were cancelled.
Manhattan, Kansas was blanketed with 15 inches of snow, the second highest snowfall in history for the city.
6 states stockpile Abortion Kill Pills
Some states are collecting bullets, or rather Abortion Kill Pills, to murder as many babies as possible.
The Center for American Progress has announced that six states have stockpiled at least 2.25 million abortion pills in case the new Trump administration moves to restrict the distribution of these murderous devices.
The six states are California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, and Maryland.
TV viewership is down
The cable news channels are languishing.
Fox News Channel averaged 2.4 million viewers during primetime last year — compared to CNN’s 685,000 and MSNBC’s 1.5 million.
The big three networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — claimed 13 million viewers during primetime hours in 2024, representing an increase of about 10% from 2023, but down from 21 million viewers seven years ago.
Golden Globes honors 2 movie flops on transgendering and rape
And finally, The Golden Globes lavished their awards over the weekend — this time upon a film centered around the theme of transgendering a male, reports the Associated Press.
The R-rated movie “Emilia Perez” received four awards, but the film never played in American theaters —and only took in $9 million worldwide. That compares to the Kendrick Brothers’ Christian film “The Forge” released last year — which earned over $40 million in worldwide box office receipts!
Another unknown film “The Brutalist” took home three major awards, but barely made $1 million in the box office. The film lived up to its name with ample scenes of rape, nudity, vile language, homosexuality, and drug use.
Indeed, in the words of 1 John 2:17, Hollywood and “the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.”
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