It’s Friday, April 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
Ugandan evangelist stabbed to death by Muslims
Suspected Muslim extremists, posing as taxi drivers on April 9th, killed a Christian evangelist in central Uganda, Africa shortly after he preached at a Gospel event, reports Morning Star News.
They beat and stabbed Alfred Kitenga at about 9:30 p.m. along the Northern Bypass in the Wakiso District, after he and his wife, Anna Grace, were returning home from preaching in Kampala, the Ugandan capital.
One local church leader said, “This is a painful loss for the body of Christ.”
In John 15:19, Jesus said, “If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
Iran says first Strait of Hormuz toll revenues banked
Hamidreza Hajibabaei, the deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament, claimed that Iran, not the United States, was now making demands after the first revenues for newly implemented tolls on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz were deposited into Iran’s central bank, reports MSN.
During a public gathering in the western city of Kuhdasht, ABC News reported that he said, “We have control over this Strait. If the United States continues on its current course, no vessels will pass through the Strait of Hormuz. We are not engaged in negotiations — rather, we are making demands.”
The Strait of Hormuz, which serves as a vital waterway for trade along the Persian Gulf, is responsible for an estimated 20% of the world’s oil supply traveling through. The blockade has led to soaring gas prices in the United States as the price of oil surpassed $100 per barrel multiple times.
Trump orders U.S. Navy to shoot and kill any boat placing mines
On Thursday, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” any boat caught putting mines in the Strait of Hormuz, as his administration ramps up mine-clearing efforts in the critical waterway, reports TheHill.com.
He added, “Additionally, our mine ‘sweepers’ are clearing the Strait right now. I am hereby ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled-up level!”
Trump retrieves 10-year-old child from Cuba in transgender drama
The Trump administration took the unusual step this week of sending a government plane to Cuba to return a 10-year-old boy from Utah who is at the center of a complicated and contentious custody fight involving the child’s gender identity, reports NBC News.
The boy’s 42-year-old father, Mr. Ethington, who is pretending to be a woman himself, is accused of taking his son to Cuba without the permission from the biological mother, with whom he has shared custody. Federal and state authorities sought the return of the boy after a family member expressed concern that Mr. Ethington went to Havana, Cuba to get gender transition surgery for the boy.
Mr. Ethington was arrested along with his 32-year-old partner, Blue, and charged in the U.S. with international parental kidnapping.
The couple traveled with the boy to Canada, ostensibly for a camping trip in late March with Blue’s 3-year-old child. However, the two adults deviously turned off their phones, after telling the older child’s mother they’d arrived in Canada. Then, they flew from Vancouver to Mexico and then to Cuba on April 1.
Navy secretary fired after feud over Trump’s ‘Golden Fleet’ with Pentagon leaders
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was fired on April 22nd after months of feuding with his Pentagon bosses, particularly over his handling of President Trump’s “Golden Fleet” shipbuilding initiative, reports the New York Post.
Tensions among Phelan, War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy War Secretary Stephen Feinberg had been simmering for months.
According to one GOP source, Phelan’s leadership style was “incongruent” with Hegseth and Feinberg. The source said, “The administration really wanted to accelerate the shipbuilding program because of the president’s agenda … and the secretary seemed incapable of accomplishing those goals, and he wasn’t well-liked. When you combine incompetence with arrogance, it usually doesn’t end well.”
Deputy War Secretary Feinberg had been gradually diverting responsibility for the major project away from Phelan, the New York Times reported.
Hung Cao, the Naval undersecretary, is now set to replace him.
Virginia voters gave 10 of 11 Congressional seats to Democrats
On Tuesday, the Virginia Democrat officials successfully convinced voters to narrowly approve a constitutionally questionable redistricting push to give 10 out of the 11 U.S. congressional seats to the Democrats, a change that one judge ruled to be unconstitutional, reports ABC News. The Democrats had previously held 6 Congressional seats in Virginia.
Florida’s possible redistricting could help ensure more GOP seats
In light of the Virginia election, the red state of Florida is now in the spotlight, reports JustTheNews.
In the Sunshine State, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis is spearheading an effort to redraw their state’s congressional districts before the midterm elections. That would help to ensure the Republicans could retain their majority in the House, and can fully implement President Trump’s agenda.
Another medical emergency uncovered at Colorado Planned Parenthood
Yet another medical emergency was spotted this month at a Colorado Planned Parenthood abortion mill with a checkered history on patient safety, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Operation Rescue reported that an ambulance was spotted on April 10 arriving at the Fort Collins Planned Parenthood. The EMS radio dispatch revealed that a 19-year-old woman came in a day after her abortion complaining of chest pains. The EMS’ use of the code “Charlie Medical” indicated fears that the situation was potentially life-threatening.
Abortion mills across the country are regularly flagged for harming mothers through botched abortions, unsanitary tools and environments, and lack of regulatory protections such as requirements for staff to secure admitting privileges at nearby hospitals in the event of complications.
The birth of the “In God We Trust” motto
And finally, on April 22nd,1864, the motto “In God We Trust,” which was conceived during the American Civil War, first appeared on American coinage.
By a joint resolution of Congress, it was adopted as our national motto in 1956, replacing the previous one: “Out of many, one.”
In 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner, including this seldom heard fourth verse, which references the importance of trusting God as a nation.
“O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto – “In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave”
(applause and cheers)
Psalm 33:12 says, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He chose for His inheritance.”
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And that’s The Worldview on this Friday, April 24th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Follow us on X or 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.