It’s Monday, February 10th, 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
35-year-old Muslim abducted & married 12-year-old Catholic girl
A married 35-year-old Muslim man abducted the 12-year-old daughter of his Catholic neighbor and took her to another province, where he forcibly converted her to Islam and married her, reports The Christian Post.
Saba Shafique was abducted by Muhammad Ali from outside her home in the Lahore Cantonment in the Punjab Province on January 5, according to her father, Shafique Masih. Ali took her to the city of Shaheed Benazirabad in the Sindh Province.
Masih, a Catholic who works as a painter after retiring from the Pakistan Army, said Ali produced a fake marriage certificate on January 8 that states Saba’s age as 18, though her birth certificate states she was born on May 16, 2012, making her 12 years old.
He lamented that more than a month has passed since his daughter’s abduction, yet police were making no effort to rescue her.
Isaiah 59:15 says, “Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The Lord looked and was displeased that there was no justice.”
Pakistan, where 97% of the people are Muslim, is the 9th most dangerous country worldwide for Christians.
Man arrested for desecrating altar at Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican
A Romanian man in his 40s was arrested by Vatican police last Friday after he jumped onto the High Altar in Peter’s Basilica and kicked off the historic candelabra along with the altar cloths, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Vatican security guards seized the man and took him into their custody.
The altar is situated directly above the tomb of Peter, a disciple of Christ, which is situated in the Vatican crypt. The candles he kicked to the ground date to the mid-1800’s.
Trump wants to shut down Department of Education
President Donald Trump is eager to shut down the Department of Education and return control back to the states, reports Fox News.
TRUMP: “We spend more per pupil than any other country in the world, and we’re ranked at the bottom of the list. We’re ranked very badly. What I want to do is let the states run schools. I believe strongly in school choice. But, in addition to that, I want the states to run schools, and I want Linda [McMahon, Secretary of Education] to put herself out of a job.”
Appearing on Fox Business with Stuart Varney, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that President Trump will keep his promise to shut down the Department of Education.
LEAVITT: “When you look at the literacy rates, the math and the reading rates of young children and students in America, they are not good. Our nation’s report card was released last week, and it showed that only 40% of fourth graders are reading at a proficient level. So clearly, the tens of millions of dollars that the Department of Education is spending every single year is not working.
“President Trump wants to empower parents to have a greater say in their child’s education system. As for the Department of Education, [To Be Determined] on an announcement there.”
VARNEY: “So, you can’t confirm that he is going to try to abolish the Department of Education? You can’t confirm that for us?”
LEAVITT: “I will say that President Trump campaigned on that promise, and I think the American people can expect him to deliver.”
More outrageous evidence of USAID taxpayer abuse
More evidence to document the waste and abuse of the American taxpayers’ money at the United States Agency for International Development or USAID, reports The Blaze.com.
Founded in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, the annual budget of the USAID today is $50 billion.
Listen to some examples of your tax dollars being abused.
- “$7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid binary gendered language.”
- “$4.5 million to combat disinformation in Kazakhstan.”
- “$2 million for sex changes and homosexual and transgender activism in Guatemala.”
- “$2.1 million to help the British Broadcasting Corporation value the diversity of Libyan society.”
- “$10 million worth of USAID-funded meals went to an al-Qaeda linked terrorist group.”
- “$6 million for tourism in Egypt.”
- “$5 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key Non-Governmental Organizations funding bat virus research in the Wuhan [China] lab.”
- “$1.1 million to an Armenian homosexual transgender group.”
- “$1.5 million to promote homosexual transgender advocacy in Jamaica.”
- “$2 million to promote homosexual transgender equity through entrepreneurship in Latin America.”
- “$2.3 million for small-scale gold mining in the Amazon.”
- “$5.5 million for homosexual transgender activism in Uganda.”
Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck and his co-host, Pat Gray, were incredulous.
BECK: “Give that list to your friends.”
GRAY: “Yeah. Yeah.”
BECK: “Hey, what part of this are you for?”
GRAY: “Are we just immune to numbers like that now?”
BECK: “Yeah, I think we are.”
GRAY: “Do we hear trillions now so often, so hundreds of billions and trillions now that maybe, when we hear $20 million for Egypt tourism, maybe we it just doesn’t affect us anymore. We’re like, ‘Ah, that’s not very much.’”
BECK: “It’s more than most people will pay in income tax their entire life.”
GRAY: “Ever, ever in their life.”
BECK: “Wasted.”
GRAY: “Yeah.”
BECK: “And your kids are on the hook for a loan to pay for things like that, because, you know, we’re $3 trillion over budget. The biggest enemy we fight is complacency. It’s got to stop right now!”
Trump calls USAID funding “a big scam”
In a Sunday interview with Brett Baier on Fox News Channel, President Trump expressed his outrage over the abuse of tax dollars at USAID as well.
TRUMP: “You take a look at the USAID, the kind of fraud in there. Well, we’re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars of money that’s going to places where it shouldn’t be going, where, if I read a list, you’d say this is ridiculous. It’s a big scam.”
John MacArthur released from hospital
And finally, Pastor John MacArthur, host of Grace to You, has been released from the hospital following complications during his recovery from heart and lung surgeries. He is now recovering at home, reports The Christian Post.
After enduring a challenging period of recovery from heart surgery, MacArthur has been discharged from the hospital, according to a tweet by Phil Johnson, an elder at MacArthur’s Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California.
The 85-year-old pastor, known for his extensive Evangelical work and theological teachings, faced multiple health setbacks in recent months that necessitated a prolonged hospitalization.
MacArthur has undergone multiple heart operations in the past year and needed additional lung surgery within just a few months.
Pray Numbers 6:24-26 for Pastor MacArthur: “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.”
Plus, it’s not too late to send Pastor John MacArthur a get well card. The address is Grace Community Church, 13248 Roscoe Blvd., Sun Valley, CA 91352.
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