It’s Monday, February 17th, 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 Adam McManus
18-year-old Catholic woman escapes Pakistani Muslim man
An 18-year-old Pakistani woman has been reunited with her Catholic family after six months of captivity, forced conversion to Islam, and coerced marriage to the Muslim who abducted her, reports Morning Star News.
Huma Allah Ditta’s ordeal began when she failed to return home from her job at a call center in Lahore
on June 28. Her distraught parents began a desperate search after police failed to lift a finger.
On August 4th, her parents discovered that she had been abducted by a Muslim man named Abdul Basit Butt.
2 Corinthians 4:4 says, “Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.”
The Catholic mother said, “My husband and I decided to put this matter in God’s hands and started praying vigorously for our daughter’s return.”
The couple’s prayers were answered on January 16th, when Huma managed to escape from Butt’s custody and was reunited with her family.
JD Vance slams Europe for violating free speech of pro-life Christians
Last Friday, Vice President J.D. Vance used a speech addressing European leaders at the Munich Security Conference in Germany to slam Europe for violating the free speech and religious rights of pro-life Christians, reports LifeNews.com.
VANCE: “When I look at Europe today, it’s sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War’s winners. … Perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular, in the crosshairs.
“A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith-Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an Army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own.
“After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Now, the officers were not moved.
“Adam was found guilty of breaking the government’s new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person’s decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility. He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution.”
Vice President Vance expressed disappointment that the United Kingdom had penalized so-called thought crimes. He warned European leaders against censoring pro-lifers.
VANCE: “Now, I wish I could say that this was a fluke, a one-off, crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person. But no, this last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish Government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so called ‘safe access’ zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime.
“In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat.”
RFK, Jr. vows to implement Trump’s pro-life policies
Last Thursday, February 13th, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was confirmed in a 52-48 vote and sworn in as President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), reported The Epoch Times.
Prior to that, during the Senate Health Committee hearing, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri asked Kennedy about whether he would implement President Trump’s pro-life policies.
Listen to their exchange.
HAWLEY: “Under the first Trump presidency, HHS stopped new [National Institutes of Health] research that involved human fetal tissue from elective abortion. You said, ‘Stem cell research today can be done on umbilical cords. You don’t need any fetal tissue.’ — which is correct. My question to you is, ‘Will you reinstate President Trump’s policy that ensures that no federal research and no federal tax dollars is conducted on fetal tissue taken from elective abortions?’”
KENNEDY: “Yes.”
HAWLEY: “Fantastic! Let me ask you just about Title X which prohibits the funding of the use of federal taxpayer funding for abortions or to flow to entities like Planned Parenthood that perform abortions or refer people to abortions. You were asked yesterday if you would support President Trump’s rule that says, ‘No Title X funding for those who perform abortions or refer people to abortions.’ I think your answer was, ‘Yes. You would reinstate that rule.’ I just want to be sure I’m right about that.
KENNEDY: “Yes.”
HAWLEY: “Fantastic! Last point that I have for you. On mifepristone, the chemical abortion drug, you said yesterday that you would study its safety. I think that’s good. I want to make an additional point here just about how the Biden administration changed the rules on mifepristone that I hope that you’ll take into consideration because you pointed out that we need to honor the wishes of voters in states and their right to set life policy.
“The Biden administration’s rule on mifepristone, which they did after the Dobbs decision, means that in any state, including ones like mine [Missouri], where voters or state legislators say, ‘We don’t want abortion performed after a certain point,’ if the Biden administration rule on chemical abortion stands and you can mail in these abortion drugs without a doctor visit or referral, that means no state ban, no state decision, no voter decision is going to matter. We’re going to have a one-size-fits-all policy set here in Washington. I hope you’ll take that into consideration.”
KENNEDY: “I will implement President Trump’s policies.”
Valentine’s Day birthed through Christian martyr’s death
And finally, have you ever wondered why we just celebrated Valentine’s Day on February 14th, this past Friday?
Well, Pastor Valentine or Valentinus was a clergyman in the Roman Empire who lived during the reign of Claudius Gothicus or Claudius II. Because the Emperor was having difficulty getting young men to volunteer to serve in the army to fight his wars, he prohibited marriage which would further hurt the conscription rate.
Pastor Valentine, who celebrated God’s love and Biblical love between husband and wife, secretly married Christian couples in the forest which ultimately led to his arrest and imprisonment.
While Claudius took a liking to Pastor Valentinus, the bold preacher tried to convert the Emperor which resulted in a sentence of death.
In Romans 10:14, the Apostle Paul asks, “How, then, can they call on the One they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?”
Valentine was beaten with clubs and stones. And when that failed to kill him, Valentine was beheaded on February 14th, A.D. 269. And now you know the rest of the story.
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