It’s Friday, October 25th, A.D. 2024. 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
Mozambique Muslims have killed 5,000 people, mostly Christians
Bishop António Juliasse has given a harrowing account of the murders, mass displacement, and hunger that have afflicted Mozambique, Africa over the last seven years due to the ongoing Islamist insurgency, reports Aid to the Church in Need.
He said Mozambique has faced “seven years of displacement; seven years of death; seven years during which people have lived with great suffering; of hunger, because they cannot farm their land due to insecurity; of disease, because there is no access to medication, or because the closest clinic has been destroyed. Seven years during which children have not been able to study as they should.”
Muslim militants have killed 5,000 people, many of whom were Christians. Plus, one million have been displaced as a result of the violent clashes between Muslim insurgents, seeking to establish a hard-line Islamic state, and the Mozambique Defense Armed Forces.
Aid to the Church in Need has provided emergency aid, pastoral assistance and counselling for displaced people, as well as vehicles for missionaries and the construction of homes and community centers.
Revelation 6:9-10 says, “When [Jesus] opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, ‘How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the Earth and avenge our blood?’”
Trump’s former chief of staff makes wild accusations which are refuted
In an interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump’s former Chief of Staff, retired Marine General John Kelly, claimed that his former boss had praised Adolf Hitler’s military and wished that he had the same. He also said Trump met the definition of a fascist and would govern as a dictator if elected a second time.
Kamala Harris said this.
HARRIS: “It is clear from John Kelly’s words that Donald Trump is someone who I quote, ‘certainly falls into the general definition of fascist.’”
Kelly’s comments were defused by a vehement denial from Mike Pence’s former chief of staff, reports The Blaze. According to Nick Ayers, Kelly’s accusation is false.
Ayers tweeted, “I’ve avoided commenting on intra-staff leaks or rumors or even lies as it relates to my time at the White House, but General Kelly’s comments regarding President Trump are too egregious to ignore. I was with each of them more than most, and his commentary is patently false.”
In a campaign statement, Trump’s Communications Director Steven Cheung said, “Kamala Harris is a stone-cold loser who is increasingly desperate because she is flailing, and her campaign is in shambles. That is why she continues to peddle outright lies and falsehoods that are easily disproven.”
When J.D. Vance, Trump’s Vice Presidential pick, was asked about it on the campaign trail, he said this.
VANCE: “John Kelly was fired by Donald Trump, and he won’t stop talking about it. Every time that John Kelly says something happened, you’ve got three or four people who are allegedly in the room when it happens, saying he’s making it up. Even Mike Pence’s chief of staff said that John Kelly is making up a bunch of [stuff] about Donald J Trump.
“So, who do we believe? Do we believe multiple eyewitnesses, or do we believe a disgruntled ex-employee? I believe the multiple eyewitnesses. I think everything that John Kelly said is not true.”
Anderson Cooper confronts Kamala about border flip flop
In Wednesday night’s CNN Town Hall in Pennsylvania, Anderson Cooper engaged Kamala Harris about her demonstrable flip flop on the border wall.
COOPER: “Under Donald Trump, you criticized the wall more than 50 times. You called it stupid, useless, and a medieval vanity project. Is a border wall stupid?”
HARRIS: “Why is there any ideological perspective on this? Let’s just fix the problem.”
COOPER: “To fix the problem, you’re doing this compromise bill. It does call for $650 million that was earmarked under Trump to actually still go to build the wall.”
HARRIS: “I am not afraid of good ideas where they occur.”
COOPER: “So, you don’t think it’s stupid anymore?”
Doctor withheld results of puberty-blocker study for political reasons
A medical doctor and leading proponent of transgender procedures for minors recently admitted that she deliberately withheld the results of a taxpayer-funded study because it showed there were no positive mental health effects for gender dysphoric children who used puberty blockers, reports The Christian Post.
Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who heads the largest youth gender clinic in the United States at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, told the New York Times that she feared releasing the results of the study would lead them to be “weaponized” by opponents of such procedures.
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, summarized the truth well in a tweet. She wrote, “We must not publish a study that says we’re harming children because people who say we’re harming children will use the study as evidence that we’re harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue harming children.”
115-year-old woman’s secrets: fresh food and love of God
And finally, America’s oldest person died on Tuesday at her home in Houston at the age of 115, reports The U.S. Sun.
Remarkably, Elizabeth Francis was living with her 95-year-old daughter and her 69-year-old granddaughter.
Born on July 25, 1909, she lived through two world wars, two plagues and 20 U.S. Presidents, the first of whom was former President William Howard Taft.
According to LongeviQuest, a database on the world’s oldest people, Francis was the third-oldest person in the world at the time of her death,
What was the secret to her long life? Her 69-year-old granddaughter referenced her diet.
GRANDDAUGHTER: “She did have a garden. A lot of her food out of her garden, she would cook herself.”
Plus, Francis never smoked or drank alcohol nor did she need glasses or hearing aids.
Her 95-year-old daughter talked about her late mother’s guiding principles.
DAUGHTER: “Always do the right thing. Treat each other as you would have them treat you.”
And in a May 2024 story on the Houston ABC affiliate, Francis cited 1 John 4:8.
FRANCIS: “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
Since her voice was soft, she said, “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”
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