It’s Wednesday, August 21st, A.D. 2024. 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 and Adam McManus
Northern India state arrested 1,682 Christians
About a dozen states in India have anti-conversion laws. These laws are often used to persecute Christians. The state of Uttar Pradesh in Northern India has the harshest version of the law.
Over the last four years, the state has arrested 1,682 people under the Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act. Most of those people are Christians, including pastors. The arrests have led to over 800 charges.
However, International Christian Concern noted, “No one has been convicted under the anti-conversion law because there has never been a shred of hard evidence against the religious conversions.”
According to Open Doors, India is the 11th most difficult country worldwide in which to be a Christian.
British pro-lifer compensated $17,000
A Christian woman won a settlement against British police recently after praying silently outside an abortion mill, reports The Washington Times.
West Midlands Police have arrested Isabel Vaughan-Spruce multiple times since 2022 for her prayers. Alliance Defending Freedom U.K. reports she won a settlement worth about $17,000.
However, the U.K. is considering a national implementation of censorship zones around abortion mills. Vaughan-Spruce warned, “Our culture is shifting towards a clamp down on viewpoint diversity, with Christian thought and prayer increasingly under threat of censorship.”
U.S. Supreme Court rules against transgenderism
Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Biden administration’s attempt to protect transgenderism.
The Department of Education had issued new rules under Title IX which, as originally envisioned, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. The new regulations would have added protections for so-called “gender identity” and “sexual orientation.”
Jonathan Scruggs with Alliance Defending Freedom said, “Female athletes, students, and teachers across the country are right to stand against the administration’s adoption of extreme gender ideology, which would have devastating consequences for students, teachers, administrators, and families.”
Biden: “America, I gave my best to you!”
On Monday night, President Joe Biden summed up his career in politics at the end of his remarks at the 2024 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: “America, I gave my best to you! [Cheering and Applause]
“For 50 years, like many of you, I gave my heart and soul to our nation. And I have been blessed a million times in return with the support of the American people. I may have been too young to be in the Senate — I wasn’t 30 yet — and too old to stay as president. [Laughter]
“But I hope that you know, how grateful I am to all of you.”
Planned Parenthood offers free abortion kill pills to DNC attendees
The Democratic National Convention began on Monday in Chicago. Disturbingly, Planned Parenthood has been offering free abortions to attendees at the venue.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said,
“The Democratic National Abortion Convention puts the extremism of the Democrats on full display. The days when the Democrats insisted abortion should be ‘safe, legal and rare’ are history.
“From ‘free’ abortion drugs aboard the Planned Parenthood bus [to DNC attendees] to a draft party platform that uses the word abortion an unprecedented 13 times, today’s Democrats under the Harris-Walz ticket are officially the Shout Your Abortion Party.”
How Kamala Harris/Tim Walz ticket is radically pro-abortion
Dannenfelser underscored how radical the Harris/Walz ticket is.
She said, “Everyone should be asking Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and all the Democrats’ candidates the question: ‘What are your exceptions?’
“Harris and Walz won’t name a single limit on abortion they support – not in the seventh, eighth or ninth month of pregnancy when unborn babies clearly feel pain, and not even when a child is born alive following an abortion attempt.
“They stand for eliminating the most basic protections for women and girls, such as informed consent and parental involvement, and seek to shut down alternatives to abortion.”
Romans 3:15 and 18 says, “Their feet are swift to shed blood. … There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Fox reporter: Media doesn’t challenge Kamala Harris
In an appearance on FOX News with Sandra Smith, John Roberts made the case that the media is in the tank for Kamala Harris.
JOHN ROBERTS: “The media is just basically letting Kamala Harris say anything she wants and not really challenging her.”
SANDRA SMITH: “I’m still amazed that when you go to her campaign website of course the first thing you see is a request from for money for donations. That’s fine, but then you travel throughout her website, there’s still no policy pitches or explanations or details being offered to voters as to how she’s gonna fix — fix the problems that she’s laying out in her speeches.”
ROBERTS: “It used to be if you wanted to get a good sense of what the policy of the particular candidate was you would go to their website and would be all laid out there on a policy page in great detail. That page doesn’t even exist on Kamala Harris’s website.”
SMITH: “Not there.”
8.5% of U.S. homes worth $1 million
A report from Redfin found the share of U.S. homes worth at least $1 million is at a record high.
Eight and a half percent of homes are now worth $1 million or more, up from about two percent in 2014.
Home prices have been rising, and luxury home prices have been rising even more. The median sale price of luxury homes rose nine percent on an annual basis during the second quarter of this year. California metropolitan areas are seeing the most increase in million-dollar homes.
Landscapers spot unexploded World War 2 bomb
And finally, a pair of landscape gardeners were left shell-shocked after digging up an unexploded bomb from World War II, reports GoodNewsNetwork.org.
Residents were evacuated from their homes in Worcester, England, while police and bomb squads rushed to the scene following the discovery by Paul Probert and James Dobson, who is not the Christian psychologist who shares the same name.
Paul said he thought he had found a Coca-Cola bottle at first until they saw the shape. After James did a Google image search, he learned it was a World War 2 bomb.
West Mercia Police used an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team who examined the device for hours and transported it safely away from the area to carry out a controlled explosion.
Paul said, “We’ve found water pipes and electricity lines, but never a bomb. It wasn’t your average day.”
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