It’s Friday, January 24th, A.D. 2025. 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 Adam McManus
5 Pakistani Muslims abducted 14-year-old Christian girl
On January 9th, five Muslims abducted a 14-year-old Christian girl from outside her home in Pakistan, reports Morning Star News.
Sharif Masih, of the Punjab Province, said he fears the kidnappers may try to forcibly convert his daughter, Saneha, to Islam and force her to marry one of the Muslim suspects.
He said, “Saneha was lured out of the house by a Muslim girl whose family had recently moved to our neighborhood.”
Please pray that God would protect Saneha from harm and return her to her family.
According to Open Doors, Pakistan is the eighth most dangerous country worldwide for Christians.
Congress: Deport criminal illegals
On January 22nd, in a vote of 263-156, Congress passed The Laken Riley Act which will be the first bill President Trump signs into law. The act was named after the Georgia nursing student who was brutally raped and murdered by an illegal alien with a long criminal record. This legislation requires criminal illegal aliens to be held for deportation.
Gary Bauer, Director of American Values, wrote, “This is not a controversial idea. In fact, a recent New York Times poll found solid majorities in favor of mass deportations. There was overwhelming support (87%) for deporting criminal illegal aliens.”
Bauer concluded, “Kicking out criminals is just common sense. But 73% of House Democrats and 74% of Senate Democrats voted against the Laken Riley Act. The rot in the Democrat Party is deep.”
Trump pardoned 23 pro-lifers
On Thursday afternoon, President Trump pardoned the 23 pro-lifers imprisoned during Joe Biden’s presidency for their attempts to save unborn babies, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I set you apart.”
TRUMP AIDE: “Next, we have a set of pardons for peaceful pro-life protesters who were prosecuted by the Biden administration for exercising their First Amendment right.”
TRUMP: “Do you know how many?”
TRUMP AIDE: “I believe it’s 23, sir.”
TRUMP: “Twenty-three people were prosecuted. They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this. (he signs the order) They’ll be very happy. So, they’re all in prison now?”
TRUMP AIDE: “Some are. Some are out of custody.”
TRUMP: “It’s ridiculous!”
The now-pardoned pro-lifers include Joan Bell, Coleman Boyd, Joel Curry, Jonathan Darnel, Eva Edl, Chester Gallagher, Rosemary “Herb” Geraghty, William Goodman, Dennis Green, Lauren Handy, Paulette Harlow, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, Jean Marshall, Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, Justin Phillips, Paul Place, Bevelyn Beatty Williams, and Calvin, Eva, and James Zastrow.
I urge you to take a listen to the powerful testimonies of 11 of these brave pro-lifers, who urged abortion-minded pregnant women to choose life in March 2021 at a pro-life rescue at a Mt. Juliet, Tennessee abortion mill, through a series of conversations at StifledCry.com. That’s StifledCry.com.
Trump signs Executive Order releasing final JFK assassination files
In addition, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 23, releasing additional government files associated with the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., reports The Epoch Times.
TRUMP AIDE: “Lastly sir, we have an Executive Order ordering the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”
TRUMP: “That’s a big one. A lot of people have been waiting for this for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed.”
The order calls for the National Intelligence Director and the Attorney General to present a plan to the president within 15 days for the “full and complete release” of the remaining JFK assassination records and 45 days for the RFK and King records.
Trump and former President Joe Biden previously released thousands of documents related to JFK’s killing. Roughly 99 percent of the assassination files have been released as of 2023, according to the National Archives.
Episcopal Bishop confronted Trump on homosexuals and illegal aliens
And finally, on Tuesday, a female Episcopal Church bishop directly confronted President Donald Trump at a worship service held at the Washington National Cathedral, where she pleaded with him to “have mercy” on homosexuals, transgenders, and illegal immigrants, reports The Christian Post.
Bishop Mariann Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington delivered the sermon at the Service of Prayer for the Nation at the cathedral.
Near the end of her sermon, Budde directly addressed Trump, who was seated in the front row alongside his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, and Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance.
BUDDE: “Let me make one final plea. Mr. President, millions have put their trust in you, and as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God.
“In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives.
“The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat-packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals. They, they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, Gurdwara, and temples.
“I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away.”
Fox News commentator Greg Gutfeld brought clarity to the conversation.
GUTFELD: “She’s talking about behaviors. And she’s cloaking these behaviors under the false guise of compassion. I mean, she’s lecturing a guy who got shot about being in danger. Who is she implying that is putting these people in danger? Are there guys in MAGA hats that are mutilating healthy children and removing their genitals. No, that’s her team!”
And Liz Storer, Sky News Host in Australia, was equally horrified with the Episcopalian Bishop.
STORER: “For shame! So, there you are. I don’t know much about the Episcopalian Church, but there’s your bishop in Washington, pleading with the new President of the United States to, I don’t know, do what? — for what the Scriptures very clearly call a lifestyle of abomination.
“So, I don’t know where this woman is coming from. This ‘our God’ that she’s referring to certainly is not the Christian God!”
Leviticus 18:22 says, “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.”
And regarding her reference to illegal immigrants, President Trump spoke out on Truth Social. He wrote, “The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard-line Trump hater. She brought her church into the world of politics in a very ungracious way. …
“She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our country and killed people. Many were deposited from jails and mental institutions. It is a giant crime wave that is taking place in the USA. … She and her church owe the public an apology!”
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