It’s Wednesday, May 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 Jonathan Clark
Ugandan Muslims stabbed evangelist after winning Muslims to Christ
Islamists killed a Christian evangelist in Uganda last month after he led several Muslims to Christ.
Thirty-eight-year-old David Washume spent three days preaching in eastern Uganda. Many people responded, including some Muslims. Shortly afterward on April 3, masked men stabbed David to death.
One person who heard his preaching before he died told Morning Star News, “On the third day the attendance increased in number, and he demanded a response of putting sin to death in their lives, to kill sin and identify themselves with Christ and against Satan, and their voices lifted to Heaven in song.”
In Matthew 16:25, Jesus said, “For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”
Thousands joined Ireland’s March for Life
Thousands of people joined the March for Life in Dublin, Ireland on Monday. (You can watch the 44-minute rally here).
The number of recorded abortions in Ireland rose from over 2,800 in 2018 to over 10,000 in 2023.
Newly elected Irish Senator Sarah O’Reilly spoke up for the little ones and for the women who are being sold abortion.
O’REILLY: “Every life matters. Women deserve better than abortion. We are here because we know Ireland can be a place where compassion and courage walk hand in hand. Our soaring abortion numbers reveal a tragedy that cannot and must not be ignored any longer.”
Senator O’Reilly also addressed the need for conscience protections for pro-life doctors and nurses in Ireland, so that they will not be coerced into participating in surgical and chemical abortions.
O’REILLY: “In addition to the terrible loss of life from the abortions that will take place, there are not sufficient freedom of conscience protections in place for doctors and other healthcare workers who don’t want to facilitate abortions. The lack of transparency surrounding what is happening under the abortion law is allowing coercive abortion practices to operate freely.
“Some of you will be aware of the horrific story involving a minor in care who was locked in a room and forced to take an abortion pill. Something is clearly not right in our country when a story like this is relegated to the ‘news in brief’ section of a daily newspaper and completely ignored by all the other media outlets.”
And Senator O’Reilly referenced the deadly demise of Irish babies with Down Syndrome.
O’REILLY: “Up to 95% of unborn babies diagnosed with Down Syndrome at the hospital now end up being aborted. When that announcement was made, there was no outrage, no expressions of remorse by the architects of Ireland’s new abortion regime.”
Trump’s new religious liberty commission
In the United States, President Donald Trump established a religious liberty commission by Executive Order last Thursday.
The commission consists of 14 members, including evangelist Franklin Graham, Dr. Ben Carson, Christian writer and talk show host Eric Metaxas, and First Liberty Institute President Kelly Shackelford.
Trump directed the commission to evaluate threats to religious liberty. Specifically, he wants the commission to address the challenges to the First Amendment rights of pastors, attacks across America on houses of worship, the debanking of religious entities, and challenges to parental authority to direct the education of their children, including the right to choose a religious education.
Listen to comments made by Texas Republican Lieutenant Gov. Dan Patrick.
PATRICK: “We were a nation birthed by prayer, founded on the Judeo-Christian ethic to ensure that people could worship as they wished without interference from government. But that is no longer the case.
“The last administration attacked people of faith for four years. There’s a saying that ‘No one should get between a doctor and a patient.’ I think we would say, ‘No one should get between God and a believer. (applause) No one should get between God and those seeking Him.”
Supreme Court allows Trump ban on transgender soldiers
In a 6-3 vote on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme allowed the Trump administration to implement a ban on transgender troops.
At issue is an Executive Order from Trump which stated, “A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”
The Supreme Court’s decision could lead to the discharge of thousands of military personnel.
177,000 jobs added in April; Unemployment at 4.2%
American job growth was stronger than expected last month.
The U.S economy added 177,000 jobs in April. The unemployment rate remained low at 4.2%.
Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management, noted, “We can push recession concerns to another month. Job numbers remain very strong, suggesting there was an impressive degree of resilience in the economy in play before the tariff shock.”
Trump considers 100% tariff on foreign movies
Speaking of tariffs, President Trump announced a potential 100% tariff on foreign movies on Sunday.
The tax could apply to films produced abroad and sent into the U.S.
Trump said, “We want movies made in America, again!”
Only 66% of Americans identify as Christian today
And finally, Christian pollster George Barna released his latest report on the American worldview.
The study found 66% of U.S. adults describe Christianity as their faith, down from 72% in 2020. Meanwhile, non-Christian faiths have grown significantly. Buddhism has grown 56%; Judaism by 21%; and Islam by 12%. And people who identify as having no faith grew 10%, outnumbering Catholics now.
Furthermore, only 18% of adults consistently rely upon the Bible to discern moral and spiritual truth.
Isaiah 55:6-7 says, “Seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”
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