It’s Tuesday, April 23rd, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Kevin Swanson
Hinduism threatens Christians in Nepal
Hindu nationalism is spreading into Nepal, threatening Christians in that country.
International Christian Concern reports that protesters demanding a Hindu state, marched on the parliament building in Kathmandu last week. The protest turned violent after participants clashed with police.
Ethiopia bans imported non-electric vehicles
Ethiopia has become the first nation in the world to ban the import of non-electric vehicles.
However, most Ethiopians cannot afford the $25,000 price tag for a Chinese-manufactured electric vehicle.
Kenya reduced accessibility to fuel, electricity, and fertilizer
Kenyan President William Ruto has also recently reduced accessibility of fertilizer, fuel, and electricity in his country in an attempt to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, reports The Epoch Times.
Christian economists, like Calvin Beisner of the Cornwall Alliance, are concerned that reducing access to fossil fuels and fertilizer will seriously hamstring Africa’s economic progress in the future.
Beisner considers “the most harmful policy” is that the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the U.S. Agency for International Development are “refus[ing] to do loans or other funding for coal, natural gas, or oil-based electric generating stations in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia and Latin America.”
Capitol Bible Reading Marathon begins
The Washington D.C. Capitol Bible Reading program kicks off this week.
The 5-day marathon takes place in seven other state capitols around the nation. According to the program’s website, the stated goal of the ministry is to “exhort our nation to return to God’s precepts. It is our desire to publicly read God’s Holy Word on the steps of the national and state Capitols, every year, for ninety consecutive hours.”
Deuteronomy 17:18-20 requires that each king ruling Israel would “write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites. And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes.”
Japan, Singapore and America guilty of growing debt the most
The nations with the largest increases in government debt as a percentage of the economy since 2010 are Japan, Singapore, and the United States, in that order.
Singapore’s debt-to-Gross Domestic Product doubled. Japan’s debt-to-GDP increased by 185%. And the United States’ debt-to-GDP grew by a whopping 226%.
Commercial real estate foreclosures up
Commercial real estate foreclosures are approaching a 10-year high this spring.
California, New York, Florida, Texas, and New Jersey, in particular, are facing accelerating rates in foreclosures.
More young women working outside the home
A record percentage of young women 25-54 years old, are working outside of the home, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2023, that percentage swelled to a high of 77.8% compared to 89.1% for men. In 1950, the ratio was 34% to 91%.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that the main driver of women entering the work force is college-aged women with young children. The ratio of female to male graduate college students has reached 1.5. That’s up from 0.45 in 1970.
Anti-Israel protests at top colleges
Anti-Israel protests are swarming over America’s elite colleges.
Fox News reported student protests on the campuses of Columbia, Yale, NYU, MIT, and Emerson College. In some cases, police had made arrests.
Pastor to Tucker Carlson: We need to repent of our sin
Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson invited Pastor Douglas Wilson from Moscow, Idaho on to his online platform for an hour-long conversation last week to discuss the subject of Christian Nationalism.
In addition, Wilson explained to Carlson that there is no political solution for the ills that face the United States.
Listen.
WILSON: “We’re in such a mess that there is no political solution. We’re beyond hope. The next election, however happy it might make us for 10 minutes, is not going to fix everything.”
CARLSON: “That’s right.”
WILSON: “Our disease is radical and it’s spiritual. We’ve got a radical leprosy. The United States needs to repent of its sin, to use an old-fashioned term. We need to repent of our sins, our arrogance, and turn back to God. That’s what is necessary. And we need preachers who are willing to tell them to do that.”
Plus, Wilson pointed out that the American system was sustained in the past by “a shared moral consensus.” But now, he fears, it is devolving into “anarchy and disruption.” An 8-minute clip of the interview has already collected 7.7 million views.
In 2 Chronicles 7:14, the Lord told Solomon, “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
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