It’s Monday, October 5th, 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 Chinese pastor detained for “organizing illegal religious activities” Pastor An Yankui was at his home when Chinese Communist officials arrested him at 10:30 a.m. on September 29th for an investigation on suspicion of “organizing illegal religious activities,” reports International Christian Concern. Yankui is the pastor of Taiyuan Xuncheng Reformed Church, an unregistered Protestant church, and has a history of arrests for the same allegation of “organizing illegal religious activities.” In 2020, authorities detained him for 15 days and fined him. Since then, authorities have arrested him several additional times for various reasons. Authorities have also conducted multiple arrests and raids on the Taiyuan church throughout the years — one raid recently happened during an October 2025 worship service when the Communists arrested 11 churchgoers. Write a polite, 4-sentence note to the Chinese Ambassador to America, Xie Feng, urging him to release Pastor An Yankui for simply practicing his Christian faith. Send it to: the Chinese Embassy, 3505 International Place NW, Washington, DC 20008. Netherlands euthanized 2-year-old child Netherlands officials just killed a 2-year-old child. It’s the first case of euthanasia on a child under 12 in accordance with a new law drafted in 2024. Euthanasia is allowable on minor children in this heathen country, where 58% of the people call themselves non-religious, when leftist doctors determine that the child is suffering unbearably with no prospect of improvement, and for whom doctors conclude there is no reasonable alternative to ending their suffering. The child, whose gender and name have not been released, was born prematurely at 26 weeks of gestation, suffered brain damage, and was diagnosed with spastic cerebral palsy and infantile epileptic spasms syndrome. It is also likely the that the child's vision was impaired. Sadly, the parents asked for the state to kill their child. Some medical experts asserted that “reasonable alternative solutions existed, such as palliative options and pharmacological alternatives that could potentially lead to better seizure control.” But the parents refused palliative care, and sought another opinion to be freed from the responsibility of caring for their special needs toddler. Talarico’s heretical pastor: He’s lying about true beliefs to get elected James Talarico, the Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, famously made this heretical claim about God. TALARICO: “God is both masculine and feminine, and everything in between. God is non-binary.” Not surprisingly, his home church, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, passes out The Inclusive Bible that changes any reference to God the Father or Jesus the Son to more politically correct terms. Rev. Babs Miller, a self-proclaimed lesbian at St. Andrews, was captured in an undercover video, claiming that while Talarico has walked that claim back, he still believes it. UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “People are attacking [James] Talarico for saying that God is non-binary.” REV. MILLER: “Duh!” UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “Yeah, that’s literally what He is!” REV. MILLER: “Yeah.” UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “He [Talarico] went on Fox News and, like, walked that back. Did you, did you see that?” REV. MILLER: “Yeah. He's getting some advice that I don't think he should be following.” UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “Yeah, because that's why, that's frankly, for one, something that attracted me to this church was like …” REV. MILLER: “and I can guarantee you that once he, [Talarico], gets elected, he'll change his tune back to where he was.” UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “Okay, but he has to kind of play this game.” REV. MILLER: “Yes, that's, that's what his campaign has convinced him of is that the Democratic Party is backing off on their stances on trans and all of this. And so, his staff is encouraging him to kind of do the same thing.” UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “Mmm.” REV. MILLER: “I think it's bad advice personally, but if it helps him win, okay.” Democrat James Talarico vs. Republican Ken Paxton on transgender surgeries for minors This is all highly relevant because Democrat James Talarico was one of 56 Texas legislators who voted against Senate Bill 14 which prohibited puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilating “gender-transition” surgeries for children. The final vote was 87 for and 56 against. By contrast, Republican Ken Paxton, the Texas Attorney General, who is running for U.S. Senate against Talarico: issued an official Attorney General Opinion, KP-0401, which concluded that hat puberty blockers and mutilating surgeries on minors constituted “child abuse” under Texas law. urged the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate cases involving so-called “gender-transition” procedures as potential child abuse. sued the Biden administration, stopping their attempts to force woke gender policy on Texans. defended Senate Bill 14 in court, which banned puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries for minors, The Texas Supreme Court ultimately allowed it to remain in effect. sued a North Texas doctor, alleging the doctor had provided prohibited cross-sex hormones to 21 minors in violation of Senate Bill 14. issued an opinion stating that Texas parents have rights to their children's school health information, including anything to do with transgender issues, and that schools could face legal consequences for withholding requested information from parents. James Talarico’s pastor rejects the atonement of Christ The heresy of James Talarico’s spiritual leaders does not end there. Rev. Babs Miller [of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas] dismisses the orthodox Christian doctrine of Christ’s substitutionary atonement for our sins on the cross. Listen. REV. MILLER: “Jesus was put on that cross not to save us.” UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “Yes.” REV. MILLER: “Jesus was put on that cross because Rome hated Him.” UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “Mmm.” REV. MILLER: “and they thought He was a threat to their domination of that area.” UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “Yeah.” REV. MILLER: “and so they killed Him.” UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “Yeah, so he was kind of more as a …” REV. MILLER: “He didn’t die to save [us from] our sins.” UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “So, He died more as a kind of a social justice warrior in some sense.” REV. MILLER: “Yes. So, that makes a whole lot more sense to me than to say that some God would kill His Son for us. That doesn't make sense.” UNDERCOVER REPORTER: “Never made sense.” REV. MILLER: “How does that make up for all the things I can do? No, it doesn't.” 1 Peter 3:18 declares, “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.” Talarico’s Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate seat in Texas is Ken Paxton. Rep. Henry Hyde honored for opposition to tax-funded abortions Republican Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey honored the legacy of the late GOP Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois who spoke up for the unborn. Congressman Smith wrote, “Fifty years ago — on September 30th, 1976 — Congress first enacted an amendment offered by Rep. Henry Hyde to protect federal Medicaid funds from being used to subsidize killing unborn children by abortion. “Beginning in 1981, I had the honor of serving alongside Henry Hyde in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a brilliant, one-of-a-kind lawmaker — who, to this day, remains the great defender of unborn children and their mothers.” When he proposed the amendment in 1976, Rep. Hyde said, “An innocent, defenseless human life, in a caring and humane society, deserves better than to be flushed down a toilet or burned in an incinerator. The promise of America is that life is not just for the privileged, the planned, or the perfect.” Indeed, Proverbs 31:8 says, “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.” New York teen raised money to educate 10 kids in Ghana, Africa And finally, 18-year-old Max Owobu from Bronx, New York is raising money to sponsor school children in Ghana, Africa, where his father was raised, reports GoodNewsNetwork.org. At age 15, when he visited Ghana, Max said, “I was seeing kids my age working, just selling things on the street or in shops, working along with the family to try and get by rather than going to school to get an education so they could better their lives for the future.” He decided to devote his own weekly allowance to pay for Matthew, a child in Ghana, to go to school. Not long after that, Max founded the Yenko Foundation, a 501(c)3 group that has raised the money to sponsor 10 children -- at $1,000 each -- to attend Calvary Methodist school which covers their tuition, uniforms, transportation, and school meals. In Matthew 25:40, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of Mine, you did for Me." Close And that's The Worldview on this Monday, October 5th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. 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