It’s Monday, January 19th, A.D. 2026. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
Inside Southeast Asia’s expanding Islamization
In one part of Southeast Asia, angry mobs constantly threaten a congregation with physical violence to try to prevent the Christians from worshipping Jesus. In yet another area, a young Christian female student fends off Muslim men relentlessly pressuring her into marriage, resulting in her forced conversion to Islam.
These are real-life situations that countless Christians face daily across Southeast Asia as they live in Muslim-majority nations, reports International Christian Concern.
Islam has a strong presence and history in Asia, with 1.3 billion Muslims across the region and 242 million followers in Southeast Asia alone. More than 60% of the world’s Muslims live in Asia.
US kills Al-Qaeda leader linked to deadly ISIS attack on US troops
U.S. Central Command, known as CENTCOM, announced on Friday a deadly strike on a leader affiliated with Al-Qaeda in northeast Syria, reports The Epoch Times.
The man had direct ties to an ISIS attack that killed two American service members and an interpreter on December 13, 2025, according to a Saturday CENTCOM post on X.
CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper said, “The death of a terrorist operative, linked to the deaths of three Americans, demonstrates our resolve in pursuing terrorists who attack our forces. There is no safe place for those who conduct, plot, or inspire attacks on American citizens and our warfighters. We will find you.”
Argentinian President Javier Milei defends unborn babies
The abortion wars in Argentina are ongoing, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Javier Milei, who was elected president of Argentina in December 2023, ran on a staunchly pro-life platform. During his campaign, he promised to repeal Argentina’s pro-abortion law, which passed narrowly in December 2020, and allows a mother to have her unborn baby killed up until 14 weeks of gestation.
In a 2023 interview, Milei said, “It is true that women have the right to their own bodies. But the child in a woman’s body is not her body. … That makes abortion a murder, enabled and aggravated by a power imbalance against a child that has no way to defend itself. … Life is a continuum with two quantum leaps – birth and death. Any interruption in the interim is murder.”
In Psalm 139:13, King David told God, “For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
To his credit, Argentinian President Milei has halted the national distribution of abortion kill pills, canceling the planned distribution of over 100,000 doses.
Abortion groups claim that these barriers likely account for the drop in the Argentinian abortion rate from 107,500 in 2023 to 79,186 in 2024.
Senator to leftist obstetrician: “Can men get pregnant?”
In a January 14th hearing on Abortion Kill Pill safety before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri could not get a straight answer from Dr. Nisha Verma, a board member of The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, about basic biological reality.
Listen.
HAWLEY: “Dr. Verma, do you think that men can get pregnant?”
VERMA: “I’m not really sure what the goal of the question is.”
HAWLEY: “The goal is just to establish a biological reality. You just said a moment ago that ‘science and evidence should control, not politics.’ So, let’s just test that proposition. Can men get pregnant?”
VERMA: “I take care of people with many identities, but …”
HAWLEY: “Can men get pregnant?”
VERMA: “I take care of many women that can get pregnant. I do take care of people that don’t identify as women that…”
HAWLEY: “Can men get pregnant?”
VERMA: “Again, as I’m saying …”
HAWLEY: “Let me just remind you what you testified to a moment ago. ‘Science and evidence should control, not politics.’ Can men get pregnant? You’re a doctor.”
VERMA: “I totally agree that science and evidence should guide medicine.”
HAWLEY: “Do science and evidence tell us that men can get pregnant? Biological men, can they get pregnant?”
VERMA: “I also think yes/no questions like this are a political tool.”
HAWLEY: “No, yes/no questions are about the truth, doctor. Let’s not make a mockery of this proceeding. This is about science and evidence, and I’m asking you.
“The United States Supreme Court just heard arguments yesterday at great length on this question. This is not a hypothetical question. This is not theoretical. It affects real people in their real lives. And you’re here as an expert, called by the other side, as an expert. You’re a doctor, and you follow the science and the evidence. So, I just want to know, based on the science, can men get pregnant? That’s a ‘yes or no’ question. It really is, I think.”
VERMA: “I think you’re trying to reduce the complexity of a lot.”
HAWLEY: “I’m not. It’s not complex. I’m trying to get to an answer, and I’m trying to test, frankly, your veracity as a medical professional and as a scientist. Can men get pregnant?”
VERMA: “I think you’re also conflating male and female.”
HAWLEY: “This is extraordinary. No, I’m not conflating male with female. They’re two different things. There’s biological men and there’s biological women. And I want to know, can men get pregnant?”
VERMA: “What you are talking about is biological.”
HAWLEY: “I’m not going to answer my question.”
VERMA: “biological males….”
HAWLEY: “This isn’t hard, doctor. Can men get pregnant? Yes or No?”
Instead of answering Senator Hawley’s very simple question, Dr. Verma continued to play games and sidestep a direct answer.
VERMA: “I would be more than happy to have a conversation with you that is not coming from a place of trying to be polarized and pushing…”
HAWLEY: “I’m not trying to be polarizing. I’m trying to ask. I think it is extraordinary that we are here in a hearing about science and about women. And for the record, it’s women who get pregnant, not men.
“Science shows that this abortion drug causes adverse health events in 11% of cases. That’s 22 times greater than the FDA label, another fact you haven’t acknowledged, and yet you won’t even acknowledge the basic reality that biological men don’t get pregnant.
“There’s a difference between biological men and biological women. I don’t know how we can take you seriously and your claims to be a person of science, if you won’t level with us on this basic issue. I thought we were past all of this, frankly.”
Christian publisher Robert Wolgemuth entered Heaven at 77
And finally, the widow of the recently deceased Christian author and publisher Robert Wolgemuth, remembered by ministry leaders as a “legend in Christian publishing,” has revealed additional details about his sudden death, reports the Christian Post.
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, the founder of Revive Our Hearts ministry, who married Wolgemuth in 2015, published a social media post last Thursday, providing additional details about her husband’s final days before his death on January 10 at age 77.
She explained, “Early Christmas Eve morning, I took him to the ER, as he was in pain, struggling to breathe. He declined quickly and within a few days was totally unresponsive. On January 10, I returned to our home a widow. That same day, Robert moved to his eternal Home, to find unending joy and rest with Christ.”
Nancy added, “In the midst of tears aplenty, I rejoice in the incredible joy and gift of walking with Robert as his wife for the last ten years.”
Evangelist Greg Laurie said, “Robert helped bring about the New Believer’s Bible, which has literally touched millions of people around the world, as well as my book Jesus Revolution. As Robert often said, ‘The anticipation of Heaven changes everything.’ May we all live with that anticipation.”
No doubt, upon admission to Heaven, Robert Wolgemuth heard the words of Matthew 25:23 from his Savior: “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
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