It’s Monday, March 18th, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
Coptic Christian Egyptian woman forced to convert to Islam
Authorities in Egypt participated in the kidnapping and forcible conversion to Islam of a Coptic Christian woman, reports Morning Star News.
Irene Shehata, a 21-year-old medical student at Asyut National University, disappeared on January 22 between mid-term exams in Asyut.
Her father reported in February that she had managed to make a desperate, tearful call to her brother before a man seized the phone, according to Coptic Solidarity.
During the call, Irene begged her brother either to rescue her or consider her dead and told him her location. Her brother heard her screaming, someone was yelling at her, and then the call ended. It seemed that she used the kidnapper’s phone without his permission.
Having learned that she was in the city of Sohaj, the family went there and reported the phone call and her location to police. Oddly enough, the police threatened to arrest the family if they tried to rescue her and warned them that the kidnappers were armed.
Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when a wicked man rules, the people groan.”
State Security officials have been dismissive and hostile to Irene’s family, telling her father that she ran off with a Muslim man of her own free will.
But the family described her kidnappers as “an organized terrorist group led by the Muslim Brotherhood to kidnap Christian girls in the Middle East.” The father said six other Christian girls or women “disappeared” from the area in one recent month.
Egypt ranks 38th on Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List of the 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian.
Georgia prosecutor against Trump resigned
Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor working with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, resigned his post after a judge ruled Friday that District Attorney Fani Willis and her office may remain on the 2020 election case involving former President Donald Trump and his allies if Wade stepped aside, reports CBS News.
Wade’s resignation as special prosecutor came hours after Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee laid out two options that would allow for the continued prosecution of the racketeering case against Trump and his co-defendants stemming from an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
Defense attorneys zeroed in on Fani Willis’ inappropriate romantic relationship with Nathan Wade in which she benefited financially since Wade paid for their romantic getaway trips to Aruba, Belize, and Napa, California, using money he received through his contracts to be special prosecutor in the Trump case.
Judge McAfee’s order came after he tossed out six counts included in the indictment returned in August, including three against Trump.
Mike Pence will not endorse Donald Trump
During an interview Friday afternoon with Martha MacCallum on FOX News, former Vice President Mike Pence said he will not be endorsing former President Donald Trump in 2024.
MacCALLUM: “We have not spoken since former President Trump sewed up the nomination. Will you be endorsing your former president. You were on the ticket with him last time around?”
PENCE: “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year. I’m incredibly proud of the record of our administration. It was a conservative record that made America more prosperous, more secure, and saw conservatives appointed to our courts, and a more peaceful world.
“That being said, during my presidential campaign, I made it clear that there were profound differences between me and President Trump on a range of issues, and not just our difference on my constitutional duties that I exercised on January the sixth.
As I have watched his candidacy unfold, I’ve seen him walking away from our commitment to confronting the national debt. I’ve seen him starting to shy away from a commitment to the sanctity of human life. And this last week, his reversal on getting tough on China and supporting our administration’s effort to force a sale of ByteDance’s Tik Tok.”
MacCALLUM: Why do you think he did that? Why do you think he had that reversal on that before we go, sir?”
PENCE: “I can’t speculate on it. But what I can tell you is, is that in each of these cases, Donald Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years. And that’s why I cannot, in good conscience, endorse Donald Trump in this campaign.”
Martha MacCallum asked the obvious follow-up question.
MacCALLUM: “Who are you going to vote for in November?”
PENCE: “Like most Americans, I’m I’m gonna keep my vote to myself. You know, I’m a Republican.”
MacCALLUM: “Would you vote for President Biden?”
PENCE: “I would never vote for Joe Biden. But how I vote when that curtain closes, that’ll be for me.”
The Ark and the Darkness movie: Unearthing the Mysteries of Noah’s Flood
Would you like scientific evidence for the worldwide flood which is described in Genesis 6-9?
Today I guest host for Kevin Swanson on Generations Radio and interview Dr. Daniel Biddle, President of Genesis Apologetics, about a powerful new film, in the theaters on Wednesday, March 20th and Thursday, March 21st only, called “The Ark and the Darkness: Unearthing the Mysteries of Noah’s Flood.”
Using a panel of 11 experts, including those from Answers in Genesis, “The Ark and the Darkness” movie provides proof that:
- Coal deposits reveal that the Earth was once incredibly more lush.
- There were 1,400 kinds of air-breathing land animals aboard the ark.
- The flood was worldwide, not regional.
- The sediment record is one of the most compelling evidences for the historicity of Noah’s flood.
- There were recognizable animals like boa constrictors, boxed turtles, and ducks found buried next to dinosaurs from the flood but evolutionists have never featured them in any dinosaur museum exhibit.
- There have been dinosaur remains found with soft tissue that still had the stink of death. If it’s 60-100 million years old, that’s not possible.
- They have found muscle fiber, collagen, bone marrow, red blood cells which can last up to 100,000 years.
- If the worldwide flood occurred 4,400 years ago, then that’s very feasible.
- Mark Armitage found soft tissue in a triceratops horn, published his discovery, and was promptly fired.
Watch the trailer and go to the website to get tickets to see “The Ark and the Darkness” movie either on Wednesday, March 20th or Thursday, March 21st. Listen to my 50-minute interview at Generations.org/radio.
St. Patrick brought thousands to Christ in Ireland
And finally, yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day. But if you think it was all about wearing green, think again.
Born in Britain in the fourth century A.D., 16-year-old Patrick was kidnapped by Irish pirates when they attacked his family’s holiday villa by the sea before dawn. Sold into slavery in Ireland to a Druid tribal chieftain, Patrick made a decision to follow Christ in the midst of his greatest trial. In his autobiography entitled Confession, Patrick wrote, “the Lord opened my senses to my unbelief.” He soon earned the nickname “Holy Boy” among his fellow slaves.
At the age of 22, after shepherding many sheep, Patrick escaped and traveled 200 miles to the coast of Ireland. Two years later, he returned to the arms of his parents who begged him to stay in England. However, he felt called by God to return to Ireland. Patrick’s parents fiercely opposed his plans, convinced that the barbaric Druids were not worth saving.
He shared Christ with his former slaveowner, preached at racetracks, and other places of worldly indulgences, seeing many come to Christ. However, this was not without opposition. The Druids often tried to poison him. One time a barbarian warrior speared Patrick’s chariot driver to death in an attempt to kill Patrick. He was often ambushed at his evangelistic events and was enslaved again for a short time.
In his book, Patrick wrote, “As every day arrives, I expect either sudden death or deception, or being taken back as a slave or some such other misfortune. But I fear none of these, since I look to the promise of Heaven and have flung myself into the hands of the all-powerful God, who rules as Lord everywhere.”
Patrick journeyed throughout Ireland, sharing Christ until his death on March 17, around the year 461 A.D.
Romans 1:16 epitomized his life. “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes.”
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