It’s Thursday, April 24th, 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 Jonathan Clark
India Supreme Court heard appeal about anti-conversion laws
India’s Supreme Court heard an appeal last week against anti-conversion laws in the country.
The advocacy group Citizens for Justice and Peace has filed petitions against such laws since 2020.
Twelve out of India’s 28 states have anti-conversion laws.
International Christian Concern warns of a “pattern of abuse by Hindu radical groups, who use the laws to initiate false complaints and pressure law enforcement to act against individual Christians and their communities, often without credible evidence.”
U.S. military presence in Syria cut in half
The United States is preparing to cut its military presence in Syria by half over the coming months.
The U.S. military has about 2,000 troops in the Middle Eastern country.
Sean Parnell, the chief spokesman for the Pentagon, said, “Recognizing the success the United States has had against ISIS, including its 2019 territorial defeat under President Trump, today the Secretary of Defense directed the consolidation of U.S. forces in Syria under Combined Joint Task Force.”
Trump: 145% tariff on Chinese goods will come down
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump said that his 145% tariff on imports from China will likely come down.
TRUMP: 145% is very high. It won’t be that high. We were talking about fentanyl, where various elements built it up to 145%. No, it won’t be anywhere near that high. But it won’t be zero. Used to be zero.
“We were just destroyed. China was taking us for a ride, and it’s not going to happen. We’re going to be very good to China. Have a great relationship with President Xi. But they would make billions and billions and billions of dollars a year, and they would build their military out of the United States, and what they made. So that won’t happen, but they’re going to do very well.”
White House spokesman Kush Desai told FOX Business that the U.S. is not looking to unilaterally lower tariffs and that China must a agree to a trade deal.
Trump’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias meets
On Tuesday, Trump administration officials held the inaugural meeting of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the federal government.
Attorney General Pamela Bondi hosted the meeting.
BONDI: “As President Trump has stated, the Biden administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses. The President is right.
“Biden’s Department of Justice abused and targeted Christians. Pro-life Christians were arrested and imprisoned for peacefully praying outside abortion clinics. The FBI spied on traditional Catholics in their parishes. President Biden declared Easter Sunday to be transgender day of visibility. No longer.”
Romans 13:3 says, “For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same.”
5 million student loan borrowers who stopped paying need to start again
The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday that it will resume collections of defaulted federal student loans.
The Department has not collected on such loans since 2020.
Currently, over 42 million borrowers owe more than $1.6 trillion in student debt. And over five million borrowers have not made a monthly payment in the last three years.
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said, “American taxpayers will no longer be forced to serve as collateral for irresponsible student loan policies.”
Notorious abortionist closes Colorado abortion mill
The oldest and most notorious abortionist in Colorado announced he is closing his abortion mill.
Warren Hern, age 86, opened the Boulder Abortion Clinic in 1975, killing thousands of unborn babies since then.
In an interview with Channel 9 in Denver two years ago, Hern described his work of killing babies this way.
HERN: “I have always felt this is an extremely important service, and there’s never been a time when it’s less important.”
But you get a fuller appreciation of the mindset of abortionist Hern from a speech he gave via video at a Boulder pro-abortion march on July 9, 2022, just days after Roe v. Wade had been overturned on June 22, 2022.
HERN: “The Republican Party is the face of fascism in America. Fox News is the voice of fascism in America. The ideology of this fascism is rooted in the white supremacist, Christian nationalist movement that has taken control of the Republican Party.
“Your response to this mortal danger to women and to democracy in America must be to support every Democratic candidate for public office and to defeat every single Republican candidate for public office. Nothing else will do.”
Troy Newman with Operation Rescue commented on the closure. He said, “Operation Rescue has some thirty years of history with this clinic – everything from activism on the sidewalk, documenting abortion injuries, filing complaints, and other legal efforts to expose wrongdoing. … We cannot praise God enough for the closure of this monstrous killing center.”
Proverbs 10:6-7 says, “Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked. The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.”
Definition of a regular churchgoer
A recent study from Lifeway Research found 53% of U.S. adults consider someone a regular churchgoer if they attend services at least weekly.
A previous study found a similar amount of Protestant churchgoers agree. However, only 16% of Protestant pastors say that regular churchgoers attend at least once a week.
Scott McConnell, executive director of Lifeway Research, noted, “Pastors … are seeing churchgoers attend less often. But when Americans hear ‘regular churchgoer,’ they picture someone attending every week or very close to it.”
18.6 million engaged with YouVersion Bible on Resurrection Sunday
And finally, the YouVersion Bible app saw a record 18.6 million people engaging with Scripture on Resurrection Sunday this year.
That’s up 11% compared to last year. Leading up to Resurrection Sunday, Bible engagement increased by over 20% across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
Bobby Gruenewald, the CEO of YouVersion Bible app, said they’re seeing more interest in the Bible on other days too: “many of our record days for engagement have happened on seemingly ordinary days this year, with no specific reason for the spikes — except that God is on the move.”
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