It’s Thursday, May 11th, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Jonathan Clark
Ugandan Muslims strangle Christian
A Christian in Uganda remains hospitalized after Muslim extremists attacked him last week.
Shaquru Ndifuna was an Islamic teacher before coming to faith in Christ in January. News of his conversion spread. In response, extremists tried to strangle him and beat him unconscious. Ndifuna said, “They forcefully entered into the house … trying to force me to confess that Jesus is not the Son of God. … I refused to renounce Jesus as the Son of God.”
Please pray for our suffering brother in Christ.
1 John 5:10 says, “Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning His Son.”
Zimbabwe wants gold-backed currency
Zimbabwe is moving to a gold-backed currency.
The African country issued gold-backed digital tokens on Monday as a means of payment. The country hopes to stabilize its currency inflation and provide an alternative to the U.S. dollar.
Zimbabwe has faced multiple cases of hyperinflation since the country’s former dictator, Robert Mugabe, destroyed the value of the Zimbabwe dollar in 2009.
Trump’s Title 42 immigration policy ends today
In the U.S., the COVID-era immigration policy known as Title 42 expires today. The policy allowed the Border Patrol to turn away tens of thousands of migrants coming through Mexico.
Now, officials are expecting a surge of migrants across the border. President Biden said the situation will be “chaotic for a while” as his administration sends 1,500 troops to the border.
On Monday, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott said the state is deploying a new tactical border force to curb illegal immigration.
Tucker Carlson is back
Tucker Carlson is back . . . on Twitter.
Fox News fired the conservative commentator last month.
Carlson announced Tuesday he would relaunch his program on Twitter. He called the platform the last big one remaining in the world that allows free speech. Carlson also called out mainstream media as thinly disguised propaganda outlets.
CARLSON: “The best you can hope for in the news business, at this point, is the freedom to tell the fullest truth that you can. But there are always limits. And you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough you will be fired for it. That’s not a guess. It’s guaranteed.”
More Bible-believing United Methodist churches leaving
On Saturday, a regional body of the United Methodist Church approved the disaffiliation of nearly 200 congregations in Alabama and Florida. The churches represented about 40% of the regional body.
On the same day, the UMC Western North Carolina Conference approved the disaffiliation of nearly 200 churches.
As of Tuesday, almost 3,000 congregations have left the mainline Protestant denomination over its debate on homosexuality. Many of the departing churches support God’s definition of marriage and sexuality.
No doubt many are moving to the Global Methodist denomination.
Planned Parenthood exploiting gender-confused people
A new report from Live Action News found that Planned Parenthood is getting into the business of mutilating the bodies of gender-confused individuals.
Between 2014 and 2019, the number of abortion mills that also offered cross-sex hormone injections increased from 26 to 200.
Planned Parenthood is now the second largest provider of transgender drugs.
The impact of COVID on generations’ spirituality
Dr. George Barna and the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University released their latest study on the spiritual impact of the pandemic on different generations.
Millennials, ages 18 to 38, were already estranged from Christianity and did not change much during the pandemic. Gen Xers, ages 39 to 57, actually moved away from Biblical perspectives and practices. Meanwhile, Baby Boomers, ages 58 to 76, moved significantly towards Christian beliefs and behaviors. Elders, ages 77 and older, demonstrated the greatest spiritual stability and even experienced an increased inclination toward becoming more Biblical.
American Bible Society founded 207 years ago today
And finally, today is the anniversary of the founding of the American Bible Society.
Protestant Christians established the organization on May 11, 1816 in New York City, 207 years ago.
Important American leaders served as Presidents of the Bible society early on. These included Elias Boudinot, former President of the Continental Congress, and John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Initially, the American Bible Society focused on getting Scripture into the hands of Americans. As time went on, it extended their work to foreign nations.
By 1912, the American Bible Society was publishing Bibles in over 80 languages. And today, the organization publishes millions of Bibles and has funded translations in hundreds of new languages in recent years.
Psalm 119:105 says, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
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