It’s Friday, July 24th, 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
British pro-lifer brutally murdered
There’s a brutal update about the murder of a retired British pro-life politician.
Shockingly, the man accused of murdering former British politician Ann Widdecombe on July 8th struck her 21 times in the head with a hammer before taking her wallet and leaving her home, reports Human Events.
After she failed to appear for a scheduled television interview that afternoon, her body was discovered the following day by her gardener.
Joshua Kerry, age 28, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on July 21st after being charged with murder in the death of the 78-year-old former Conservative Member of Parliament. Prosecutors said police are also investigating whether the killing had a political or terrorist motive.
According to the Associated Press, Widdecombe was eating lunch at her home on the edge of Dartmoor National Park in southwest England, when Kerry arrived.
Widdecombe served as a Conservative member of Parliament from 1987 until 2010.
Listen to her articulate defense of the unborn baby in a 2020 debate hosted by the Queen’s University Belfast Literary and Scientific Society.
WIDDECOMBE: “When a child is born, you cannot take its life. Not one minute after birth can you take its life. It does not matter how disabled that child is, how profoundly sick it may be, how stressed the mother is, how poor the mother is, whether the mother has suddenly decided that she didn’t, after all, want to have the child. You cannot take that child’s life. At the moment of birth, it has full civil rights. It is protected as much as you and I are protected by the law.
“Yet, one day earlier, that is not so. But hang on. It’s the same child! Nothing has happened to change that child into something different, other than the fact that finally it can be seen, that it is quite visibly here among us. But it’s been here among us in the days and the weeks and, indeed, the months before that birth.
“So, I would say that the law, which has now been imposed, I can’t put it any other way, on Northern Ireland is a law that actually is illogical. It is immoral and it is unkind. If a child can enjoy our protection one day, that same child should be able to enjoy our protection the day before!”
Proverbs 31:8 says, “”Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.”
The brutal death of pro-lifer Ann Widdecombe is a profound loss.
Samaritan’s Purse aids thousands after Venezuela earthquakes
Evangelist Franklin Graham visited Venezuela this week to meet with earthquake survivors who were being aided by Samaritan’s Purse after the June 24 back-to-back magnitude 7.5 and 7.2 earthquakes killed at least 5,000 people and injured even more, reports The Christian Post.
Samaritan’s Purse Emergency Field Hospital, which has 60 beds and two operating rooms, has helped 2,500 people since it opened on June 30th.
Graham said, “These people are surrounded by so much death and destruction. We want to bring the light of Jesus Christ into these places of pain.”
Thomas Ovington, the Team Leader in Venezuela, gave his overview of the earthquake trauma and the help that Samaritan’s Purse is offering.
OVINGTON: “We’re seeing complete chaos around. There’s fallen buildings. There’s people sleeping in the streets. Football stadiums packed full of people. It’s also the huge number of people that are missing. There’s just an incredibly high level of desperation.
“But it’s also an amazing opportunity for us to serve. We have a lot of different capabilities. This is the emergency room that we’re in right now. Two operating theaters in the back where we can do the surgeries. A lot of the needs we’re starting to see are trauma from fallen buildings. There’s crush injuries, broken bones.
“Additionally to that, we’re doing distributions of tarps, non-food items, and potable water.
“At Samaritan’s Purse, our number one priority is to share the Gospel of Jesus and the hope we have in Him. And so here, we’re in the midst of an incredibly hopeless situation for tens of thousands of people. It’s really an incredible opportunity for us to live out our mission, relieving suffering and doing it all in Jesus’ name.”
You can make a donation to help the efforts of Samaritan’s Purse on the ground in Venezuela through a special link in our transcript today at www.TheWorldview.com.
Trump blasts Democrat Communists as greatest threat to America
Ahead of the November midterm elections, President Donald Trump launched a broadside against the Democratic Party, saying the up-and-coming Democratic Socialists are “communism by another name” and “the greatest threat I’ve ever seen to our country.,” reports Real Clear Politics.
TRUMP: “While our administration is lifting up the next generation with the power of freedom and American capitalism, proven all over the world when it’s done right, the radical Left is actively trying to destroy our children’s future with the disaster known as communism. This isn’t social democracy; these are communists by another name, right?
“Communism is the single greatest threat to our country in its history, including even World War I and World War II, Pearl Harbor, 9/11. These people are stone cold crazy.
“You know they want to give everything away. You want free rent? You want [a] free house? What they don’t say is that a year from now, there’ll be absolute squalor, turmoil, and death. And that’s why we declare again today that the United States of America will never be a communist country!”
NYC Mayor threatens to arrest Israeli Prime Minister as a “war criminal”
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a socialist, has been threatening to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he addresses the United Nations this September in New York City. This was in response to the International Criminal Court’s November 2024 issuance of a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest for what it alleges are war crimes and crimes against humanity.
MAMDAMI: “Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people. As I’ve said, I agree with the [International Criminal Court] that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes.
“My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here. It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. The federal government, however, does, and I call on them to join the ICC and execute this warrant.”
Appearing on American Family Radio, Mike Huckabee, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, had some choice words for the New York City mayor.
HUCKABEE: “He certainly doesn’t have the legal right to arrest a diplomat because he has diplomatic immunity if he comes to the U.N. So, this is nonsense on the part of Mamdami. He ought to be focusing on fixing potholes, picking up the trash, keeping the parks clean, and the needles from drug users off the streets. But instead, he’s injecting himself into something about which he is utterly ignorant.
“When he says Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, on what does he base that? Benjamin Netanyahu is the elected leader of a country that very much mirrors the United States in terms of complete, wall-to-wall freedom. And if he’s talking about Gaza and says, ‘Oh, they’re guilty of genocide. Israel didn’t start the war in Gaza; Hamas did by murdering 1,200 innocent civilians and taking captive 250 people, including 16 Americans.”
Ambassador Huckabee explained what a similar attack on America would look like when scaled to the size of our population.
HUCKABEE: “If Americans had the similar kind of assault on us in one day, if you looked at the scale of population, it would be the equivalent of 40,000 Americans being murdered in a single day, and 10,000 people being taken hostage, raped, starved, beaten, and abused. And I wonder what would Americans demand? What would Americans do if we had 40,000 people slaughtered, including pregnant women butchered in front of their children? If we’d had that in one day, I wonder if America’s response would be to just gently write, maybe a strongly worded letter and say, ‘Please give our 10,000 hostages back.’
“The Israelis prosecuted the war against Hamas for the sole purpose of getting their hostages back, but Hamas wouldn’t let them go. This war should never have taken that long.”
Homosexual Fox News host buys surrogate child
On July 15, Fox News political analyst Guy Benson, a self-proclaimed homosexual, announced on Instagram that he and his homosexual partner, Adam Wise, became so-called “fathers” again with a picture of himself holding a little girl named Madison Halsey, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
This is the second child the two men have procured through surrogacy. Their son, Conrad James, was also birthed by an anonymous surrogate mother in November 2023.
The culture war over surrogacy – the practice of renting the body of a woman to gestate a child created outside the womb through in vitro fertilization – has been growing louder over the past several years.
The New York Post noted that Benson’s announcement “drew an outpouring of well-wishes from prominent conservatives, including former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Fox News host Dana Perino, and political commentator Sarah Cupp.”
On the other hand, Christian commentators such as Megan Basham emphasized the injustice. She wrote, “Benson is an incisive pundit. But there is nothing conservative about deliberately creating motherless children. I pray Benson, and those like him on the Right, would consider what they are telling the world about how unnecessary they believe mothers (or if we’re talking about two women, fathers) are to the needs of children.”
And Katy Faust, a children’s rights activist and founder of Them Before Us, wrote, “What did you think was going to happen after we legalized gay marriage? … What Obergefell enabled was something else. It accelerated the legal replacement of biological parenthood with intent-based parenthood.”
Romans 1:26-27 says, “God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
24 Worldview listeners gave $10,569.75
And finally, by Thursday night at 10:00pm Central, 24 Worldview listeners stepped up to the plate and invested their treasure to fund the six-member team behind The Worldview for another year.
Our thanks to Elizabeth in Lubbock, Texas who gave $50, Craig in Rochester, New Hampshire who gave $86.75 as well as Robert in San Antonio, Texas and Jane in Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania – both of whom gave $100.
We are grateful to God for Elaine in Hampton, South Carolina who gave $120, Jennifer in San Jose, California, Alexander in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and Jason in Lakeland, Florida – each of whom pledged $10/month for 12 months for a gift of $120.
We were touched by the generosity of Daniel in Santa Cruz, California who pledged $22/month for 12 months for a gift of $264, Sarah in Madera, California who gave $300, and George in Leesburg, Virginia who pledged $25/month for 12 months for a gift of $300.
We appreciated the sacrifice of Fred in Cascade, Montana, Michelle in Sparta, Michigan, Todd in Davenport, Iowa, Mary in Highland, New York, Caroline in Live Oak, Florida, and Clarence in Stone Ridge, New York – each of whom gave $347 as well as Michele in Kindersley, Saskatchewan, Canada who pledged $28.92/month for 12 months for a gift of $347.
And we were blown away by David in Tall Timbers, Maryland who pledged $30/month for 12 months for a gift of $360, Rosilin in Waynesville, Missouri who gave $500, Tammy in Cascade, Idaho who gave $1,200, Elizabeth in Carol Stream, Illinois who gave $1,200, Emmanuel in Madison, Alabama who gave $1,200, and Calvin in Waldorf, Maryland who gave $2,000.
Those 24 gifts add up to $10,569.75. Ready for our new grand total? Drum roll please. (drum roll sound effect) $56,062.75 (sound effect of people cheering)
Wow! That is the single best day so far in the month of July. More and more Worldview listeners are catching the vision, thanks in part to the McVeda Family in Great Falls, Montana.
Can you feel the momentum?
We need to raise $25,163.25 by midnight on Friday, July 24
But we still have a steep hill to climb. So, if you have not stepped up to the plate yet, we could really use your help. By tonight at 12 midnight, we need to raise a whopping $25,163.25 to hit our $81,226 goal!
But listen to this.
I got a call yesterday morning from a Worldview friend in Naples, Florida right before I swam my 72 laps at the outdoor pool at my gym. He said, “Adam, I will match, dollar for dollar, the next 12 people who give a one-time gift of $500.” He is willing to invest $6,000 to encourage 12 people to collectively give another $6,000! If those gifts come in today, then we have to raise the difference of about $13,000.
Would you consider being one of 6 people to pledge $100/month for 12 months for a gift of $1,200, one of 5 people to pledge $50/month for 12 months for a gift of $600, or one of 10 people to pledge $25/month for 12 months for a gift of $300?
Just go to TheWorldview.com, click on Give, select the dollar amount, and make sure to click on the “recurring” button if that’s your wish.
And remember, if you want to continue your monthly pledge to The Worldview that you started in a previous year, please let me know so we can count your generous ongoing gift toward our total.
What does God want you to give?
Go to TheWorldview.com and click on Give.
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And that’s The Worldview on this Friday, July 24th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Plus, you can get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I’m Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.