It’s Tuesday, March 21st, the first day of Spring, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Kevin Swanson
Libya sentenced Christian convert from Islam to death
Libya has gotten tougher on Christians.
Bibles are severely restricted; they are brought into the country with extreme difficulty and risk. For Christians, Libya is the fifth most dangerous country in the world on the Open Doors World Watch List.
Pray for a young man named Dhiaa al-Din Ahmed Miftah Balao. He was found guilty of leaving the Muslim faith to embrace the Christian faith, and sentenced to death last September.
Who is funding Back Lives Matter and other leftist groups?
The Claremont Institute just released their Black Lives Matter movement and related causes funding database — tracking donations to liberal revolutionary causes. And, survey says, Silicon Valley Bank contributed $71 million to these causes.
Black Lives Matter has received $832 million from leftist big money. Altogether, the leftist organizations have received $83.1 billion.
The largest financiers of leftist causes in the U.S. are JP Morgan, Bank of America, Exelon Utilities in Chicago, Goldman Sachs, Bankcorp, Starbucks, Citigroup, PNC Financial, Facebook, New York Life, BlackRock, CVS Health, and PayPal.
First Republic Bank bleeding out
First Republic Bank stock is still bleeding out, even after receiving additional deposits of billions from other banking institutions.
The stock hovered around $20 yesterday, losing 86% of its value in the last week.
Trump expected to be arrested today
Former President Donald Trump is expecting to be arrested and arraigned in a Manhattan court today, reports Business Insider.
The Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, is suggesting the former president broke the law when he allegedly paid hush money, through an attorney, to cover up an alleged affair with Stephanie Clifford, an actress in disreputable movies bearing sexual content.
Bragg has convened a grand jury on the matter — and received testimony thus far from Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen, Stephanie Clifford, and Trump advisors Hope Hicks and Kellyanne Conway.
Let us all remember: “No creature is hidden from [God’s] sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.” (Hebrews 4:13)
Wyoming bans Abortion Kill Pill
Wyoming became the first state to ban the Abortion Kill Pill.
Republican Governor Mark Gordon has signed the bill which would make it illegal to “prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any drug for the purpose of procuring or performing an abortion.”
Wyoming has also just become the 18th state to ban boys, pretending to be girls, from competing in women’s scholastic sports.
Colorado eager to become most pro-abortion state
Meanwhile, Colorado, just south of Wyoming, is positioning itself to be the most pro-abortion state in the country.
The Colorado legislature is considering a bill to require insurance plans to provide coverage for the total cost of abortion care without copayments or policy deductibles.
Another bill would protect out-of-state patients, who wish to kill their babies in Colorado or pursue attempts to deface their God-given gender, from prosecution elsewhere.
Yet another Colorado bill would prevent a health-care provider from providing, prescribing, administering, or attempting medication abortion reversal. Plus, it further regulates advertising efforts on the part of pro-life centers in the state.
Amazon set to cut 9,000 jobs
Amazon is planning another round of 9,000 job cuts, reports the Financial Times.
This takes the number of tech job cuts to 139,000 in the first two and a half months of 2023. And, according to Layoffs.fyi, there were 161,000 layoffs in 2022.
Companies laying off the most employees thus far this year include Meta at 21,000, Amazon at 19,000, and Google at 12,000.
25,000 people in Greece protest deadly train crash
Civil unrest is on the rise in countries around the world.
(Sounds of petrol bombs and protesters in Greece)
Those are the sounds of petrol bombs and launching tear gas canisters in Greece, reports Reuters.
About 25,000 people faced off with the police in Athens — protesting a train crash that killed 57 people last month.
Parisians protest the raising of retirement age from 62 to 64
And these are sounds of more protests on the streets of Paris, France — where some have called it a battleground over the last few nights.
(Sounds of protests in Paris)
Apparently, people are angry with French President Emmanuel Macron for increasing the retirement age from 62 to 64 — without a vote. Other large protests over the last week have occurred in Great Britain, Israel, Venezuela, and South Korea.
The Carnegie Endowment Global Protest Monitor has already documented 15 protests per month this year. By contrast, the monitor identified 58 significant protests related to economic issues in 2022, and 16 in 2021.
God’s precipitation
And finally, God sends precipitation on the just and the unjust in His common grace.
The Colorado snowpack this year stands at 129% of average. The snowpack is the mass of snow on the ground that is compressed and hardened by its own weight.
In addition, Minneapolis, Minnesota endured its eighth snowiest season. And Bismarck, North Dakota and Grand Rapids, Michigan got their third largest snowfalls in history. Meteorologists are suggesting possible flooding, especially in the Mississippi Valley, come spring time.
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Chinese president and Russian president met in Moscow
Big meeting Monday between leaders of two of the most powerful nations on Earth.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Moscow, reports CBS News. Jinping said the countries share the same goals, and “we can cooperate and work together to achieve our goals.” He did not specify what those goals were.
Estonia’s minister of defense Hanno Pevkur tweeted that the EU had decided to give Ukraine one million rounds of 155mm munition for the ongoing conflict with Russia.