It’s Thursday, March 27th, 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
Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Vietnam deny religious liberty
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom released its annual report on Tuesday.
The report advises the U.S. State Department to designate certain countries as Countries of Particular Concern for severe religious freedom violations. The commission recommended countries like Burma, China, North Korea, and Russia to remain on the list. It further recommended adding Afghanistan, India, Nigeria, and Vietnam.
Nearly all the countries on the recommendation list are also on Open Doors’ World Watch List of nations where it is most difficult to be a Christian.
McKenna Wendt with International Christian Concern said, “[We are] particularly grateful for [the report’s] focus on the persecution of our Christian brothers and sisters around the world.”
Hebrews 13:3 says, “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them—those who are mistreated—since you yourselves are in the body also.”
Christianity & Buddhism saw most losses from religious switching
Pew Research released a new report on “religious switching” around the world.
In many countries, about one out of five adults have left the religious group they grew up in. Christianity and Buddhism saw the most losses from this religious switching, while those with no religious affiliation increased.
Religious switching was common across East Asia, Western Europe, North America, and South America. However, countries with large Christian populations, but with little religious switching, include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, the Philippines, Poland, and Hungary.
10,000 Dutch were killed by euthanasia
Sadly, nearly 10,000 people were killed in the Netherlands last year through euthanasia.
That’s up 10% from 2023. Deaths involving psychological suffering were up 60%.
Bruno Waterfield, reporting for The Times, said, “There is concern that growing numbers of suicidal people, especially young people, are asking for help to die.”
Proverbs 12:10 says “The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”
Trump’s signs Executive Order on Election Integrity
In the United States, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order Tuesday entitled “Persevering and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.”
The order directs states to require proof of citizenship when people register to vote in federal elections.
The order also stated, “Above all, elections must be honest and worthy of the public trust. That requires voting methods that produce a voter-verifiable paper record allowing voters to efficiently check their votes to protect against fraud or mistake.”
Births increased in states with abortion bans
The National Bureau of Economic Research released a report on how abortion bans have affected birth rates.
About a dozen states passed near-total abortion bans since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022. This increased the distance to the nearest abortion mill from 50 miles to 300 miles for the average woman in those states.
Notably, births also increased by 2.8% in those states compared to what they were expected to be without the abortion ban.
Only 16% of Christians believe in Trinity
Dr. George Barna released his latest research on American Christianity.
About two thirds of U.S. adults identify as Christians according to the report. However, only 16% of self-identified Christians believe in the existence and influence of each person of the Trinity. That number falls to 11% among the general population.
People who read the Bible daily and attend church weekly were more likely to believe in God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dr. Barna noted, “These findings about America’s ignorance or rejection of the Trinity are simply another in a long list of examples of people living without the truths and life principles of God shaping their lives.”
In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Partial solar eclipse this Saturday morning
And finally, a partial solar eclipse is coming to parts of North America this week.
The moon will pass between the sun and the Earth on Saturday morning for viewers in parts of the northeastern U.S. The sun and moon won’t be perfectly aligned, so only part of the sun will be obscured.
The spectacle will also be visible in eastern Canada, western Africa, and Europe.
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