It’s Monday, January 16th, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus.
By Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
Burmese military bomb a church leading to civilian casualties
The campaign of violence continues in Myanmar against civilians.
On December 30, the Burmese military shelled St. Michael Catholic Church in San Hka village, located in the predominately Christian Kachin state, reports International Christian Concern. At least one civilian was killed and five were reported injured.
Two children were among the five who were wounded after one artillery shell hit the village and another was dropped in the church compound.
This attack came two months after the military junta bombed a concert that killed 63 people.
British cardiologist stuns BBC interviewer: COVID shots endanger heart
In what is being hailed as a breakthrough for COVID-19 vaccine skepticism into the mainstream media, the BBC invited Dr. Aseem Malhotra, one of the most influential cardiologists in Britain, to speak on a segment about medical issues, during which he told viewers there was “lots of data” linking the COVID shots to heart problems, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Hosted by Lukwesa Burak, the segment began with the subject of statin pills for heart health. Malhotra took the opportunity to tell the BBC’s audience that the mRNA-based COVID vaccines “do carry a cardiovascular risk.”
MALHOTRA: “Since the [COVID] pandemic, there’s been 30,000 [British] excess deaths, specifically due to cardiac atrophy. That’s my area of expertise. And they’re trying to figure out what’s causing it.
“What I, in my own research has found, and this is something that is probably a likely contributing factor, is that the COVID mRNA vaccines do carry a cardiovascular risk.
“I’ve actually called for the suspension of this, pending an inquiry, because there’s a lot of uncertainty at the moment about what’s causing the excess deaths. My own father suffered a cardiac arrest at home, and the ambulance took 30 minutes. And when his post-mortem came out, he had very severe cardiac atrophy which is unexplainable. And then I published, in a peer-reviewed journal, and they accepted my findings, that the likely cause of his death was two doses of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine he had six months earlier.”
Another study found that athlete deaths are 1,700% higher than expected since COVID-19 vaccination began.
Biden’s classified documents fiasco
President Joe Biden said he was “surprised” when classified documents were found in a closet in his former Washington think tank office and portrayed it as an honest mistake. But when another batch of classified documents was found in his garage, where he keeps his 1967 Corvette Stingray at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, pressure has mounted to explain what is fast becoming a crisis of credibility for the White House, reports The Epoch Times.
Listen to the exchange between Fox News reporter Peter Doocy and President Biden.
DOOCY: “Classified material — next to your Corvette? What were you thinking?”
BIDEN: “My Corvette’s in a locked garage, okay? So, it’s not like it’s sitting out in the street!”
Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special counsel to investigate the case while Republicans have alleged a two-tier justice system where former President Donald Trump—who faces his own classified document probe—is seen as being treated more harshly while Biden supposedly with kid gloves.
Last August, the FBI executed a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and seized thousands of documents, including some marked classified and top secret.
The White House is facing growing criticism for not disclosing the find of the Biden-linked documents until two months after their discovery on November 2, 2022—a week before the midterm election.
Supreme Court to hear Christian postman who asked for Sundays off
Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it will hear the civil rights lawsuit of an Evangelical Christian postal worker who resigned from the U.S. Postal Service after it refused to allow him to observe Sunday as the Sabbath, reports The Christian Post.
Gerald Groff of Pennsylvania quit the United States Postal Service in 2019 after a service of about seven years because the Quarryville Post Office in Lancaster County required him to deliver Amazon packages on Sundays.
Kelly Shackelford with First Liberty, who is representing Groff, said, “It is unlawful for employers to discriminate against employees on the basis of religion. It’s time for the Supreme Court to reconsider a decades-old case that favors corporations and the government over the religious rights of employees.”
Exodus 20:8 says, “Remember the Sabbath, to keep it holy.”
Video raises $108,000 for elderly Walmart employee to retire
And finally, Rory McCarty was shocked to find an 82-year-old Navy veteran and widower still “grinding” out 8-9 hour shifts at a Walmart in Cumberland, Maryland. He realized at that moment he could put his social media influence towards a good cause.
McCarty runs an extermination business called Bug Boys, and in a true 21st century story, has amassed a TikTok following of 300,000 people by showing videos of creepy crawlies he finds during work.
On the GoFundMe page McCarty set up on December 19th to fund Warren “Butch” Marion’s belated retirement, he wrote, “As a business owner … I was astounded seeing this little older man still grinding. Working eight to nine hour shifts.”
In an initial TikTok video, McCarty told Marion about a woman who raised money on her channel to help elderly Walmart employees retire.
MCCARTY: “She raised $100,000 for this woman. Now imagine if someone raised that kind of money for you?”
MARION: “Woo!”
McCarty raised $108,000 in just a few days to help Marion finally retire, reports GoodNewsNetwork.org.
MARION: “This is for real?”
MCCARTY: “Yes, oh you better believe this is for real. It’ll help you a lot wouldn’t it?”
MARION: (Beginning to cry) “I can’t thank you guys enough.”
MCCARTY: “Man, come here. Give me a hug buddy.”
Amazingly, Warren Marion walked into Walmart in Cumberland, Maryland, for the final time last week after having handed in a two-week notice. He was greeted with cheers, balloons, and a large check for $108,000.
A video McCarty posted of them both in December has been viewed over three million times.
McCarty said, “I wanted to help this Navy Veteran to live the remainder of his years traveling to see his kids in Florida, get him off his feet for 8 hours at a time, and do the things he would love to do that he may not be able to for financial reasons.”
Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35)
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