It’s Wednesday, April 9th, 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 Jonathan Clark and Adam McManus
Ugandan Muslim husband kills newly converted Christian wife
A Muslim man in Uganda stabbed his wife to death after she converted to Christianity last month.
Forty-one-year-old Nasiimu Mirembe was the mother of six children. She put her faith in Christ on March 21st after hearing the Gospel from a friend. On March 23rd, she attended a church service for the first time. Tragically, her husband attacked her on her way home from church.
Mirembe’s friend told Morning Star News, “Immediately he started slapping his wife. I started screaming and shouting for help. [He] then removed a long knife and started cutting her with it.” She died from her wounds the next day.
Psalm 116:15 says, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.”
Church attendance up in United Kingdom
A new report from the Bible Society found that church attendance is growing in the United Kingdom.
Twelve percent of adults in England and Wales attended church at least monthly last year, up from 8% in 2018.
Young people, especially young men, are leading the growth. Sixteen percent of 18 to 24-year-olds attend church monthly, up from 4% in 2018. Church attendance by young men grew from 4% to 21% over the same time period.
In Titus 2:1, 2, and 6, the Apostle Paul wrote, “Speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience. … Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded.”
Supreme Court blocks reinstatement of fired federal workers for now
In the United States, the Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order that the Trump administration rehire 16,000 federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government, reports The Associated Press.
The justices acted in the administration’s emergency appeal of a ruling by a federal judge in California ordering that the probationary employees at six federal agencies be reinstated while a lawsuit plays out because their firings didn’t follow federal law.
Appearing on NBC News, legal analyst Danny Cevallos spoke to the practical fallout of the Supreme Court decision on the 16,000 federal workers who were let go.
CEVALLOS: “When it comes to these probationary workers, functionally, if they’re not being reinstated for a certain period of time, they’re going to go find other work. So, this is one of those situations where a stay in this case may eventually lead to them just going off and getting other jobs, and they may never return, even if they someday are entitled to return.”
President Trump boosts coal production
President Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday to boost coal as an energy source.
The order allows some older coal-fired power plants to stay online instead of being retired. This comes as data centers, artificial intelligence, and electric cars increase the demand for electricity in the U.S.
The order also removes some restrictions on coal mining and encourages coal leasing on U.S. lands.
Georgia passed Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Last Friday, Georgia became the 30th state to enact a Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The act protects people from unjust government punishment for living out their faith.
Greg Chafuen with Alliance Defending Freedom said, “Our laws should protect the freedom of every person to live and worship according to their faith. This law provides a sensible balancing test for courts to use when reviewing government policies that infringe upon the religious freedom rights of Georgians.”
IRS ends investigation into church praying for school board candidate
First Liberty Institute announced Monday that the Internal Revenue Service ended its investigation of a church in Florida recently.
New Way Church in Palm Coast, Florida came under investigation after praying for a local school board candidate during a service last year.
Jeremy Dys with First Liberty Institute said, “We are pleased that the IRS not only closed its investigation, but affirmed that this church’s activities of praying for political candidates during its church service do not threaten its tax-exempt status.”
Planned Parenthood closes 3 Michigan abortion mills
Planned Parenthood of Michigan announced last Wednesday that it will close three locations in the state.
Appearing on Fox 2 in Detroit, Michigan Planned Parenthood President Paula Greear was upset.
GREEAR: “A lot of people have reached out to me, and they are angry and they are hurt. And you know what? We are too!”
The abortion group blamed funding cuts by the Trump administration.
GREEAR: “They are trying to do everything to defund Planned Parenthood.”
Young pro-lifers have been praying outside one of the abortion mills for years.
Kevin Weed, the headmaster for St. Michael High School in Petoskey, Michigan, told CatholicVote, “Many people are attributing the closing to the Trump administration’s cutting of funds, which I’m sure makes a big difference. Our students have been praying there, and those prayers have been answered. However that came to be, we’re just happy that this facility is closed.”
Space flight around Earth’s poles
And finally, a cryptocurrency billionaire and his crew of three people completed the first space flight around the Earth’s poles last week.
Chun Wang is a Chinese-born investor of Malta, the island country located in the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily and North Africa. The bitcoin billionaire funded the mission aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.
The crew launched last Monday and returned Friday. Together, they accomplished the first crewed orbit over the north and south poles.
Before the launch, Chun said, “My own journey has been shaped by lifelong curiosity and a fascination with pushing boundaries. As a kid, I used to stare at a blank white space at the bottom of a world map and wonder what’s out there. … We hope our mission will further inspire later people to do the same.”
Psalm 19:1 says, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork.”
Close
And that’s The Worldview on this Wednesday, April 9th, in the year of our Lord 2025. Subscribe for free by Amazon Music or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I’m Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.