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It’s Wednesday, March 27th, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Jonathan Clark
161 acts of persecution against Christians so far in 2024
During the first 75 days of 2024, the United Christian Forum documented 161 incidents of persecution against Christians in India. Christians in the Hindu-majority country often face accusations of forced conversion.
The group noted Christians experienced the most persecution in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. It said, “There is clear evidence of state-sponsored harassment of Christians in this state, as the police file false allegations of conversion against pastors, even for praying in birthday parties and other social gatherings.”
One billion people in India expected to vote
Nearly a billion people will head to the polls in India next month. It’s considered the largest democratic election in history.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to win a third term in a row. His Hindu-nationalist party, known as the Bharatiya Janata Party, is also expected to remain in power.
India overtook China as the world’s most populated country last year. India also overtook the U.K. as the fifth largest economy in 2022 and is on track to be the third largest behind the U.S. and China.
Isaiah 40:15 reminds us, “Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust on the scales; Look, [the Lord] lifts up the isles as a very little thing.”
Air & Space Museum in trouble for mocking pro-lifers
In the United States, a national museum agreed to a $50,000 settlement with pro-life tourists.
Twelve students visited the National Air and Space Museum last year, wearing pro-life apparel. Museum staff mocked the students and forced them to leave.
Patrick Murphy, one of those pro-life students, appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox show and explained what happened.
MURPHY: “We got done with the March for Life and we decided to go to the Air and Space Museum. We ended up at the Flight Brothers exhibit. At this time, we were addressed by security guards and they tell, ‘All people wearing a pro-life hat, take it off.’ One of the students with us proceeds to say, ‘We use these hats for identification purposes. This is for our group.’
“We were approached by a large man as we were walking out, rubbing his hands together, saying ‘Y'all are about to make my day!’ He tells us he's got reports saying we said no to taking our hats off and we're in trouble for some odd reason. I then said, ‘This is a violation of our First Amendment right. This is a government-funded building.’ He said, ‘It's a neutral zone, and that doesn't apply here.’ And we were blown away. We had almost no words.”
The Smithsonian oversees the museum and agreed to the settlement, offering the students a private tour.
Jordan Sekulow with the American Center for Law and Justice wrote, “This was a clear-cut First Amendment violation, not only of their freedom of speech but of religion as well. The federal government simply cannot ban speech with which it or its employees disagree.”
Kansas pro-life bill would end chemical abortion
In welcome news, Students for Life Action applauded the roll call vote on Senate Bill 286 in the Kansas Senate, which, if signed into law, will greatly increase pro-life protections in Kansas, stopping dangerous Chemical Abortion pills and ending intentional abortion.
This vote resulted from the hard work of Students for Life Action intern Cheyenne Vandeventer, who helped introduce the law in 2023, and was championed by Kansas GOP State Senator Dr. Mark Steffen.
Ship crashed into Baltimore bridge, causing collapse
A massive, Singapore-flagged container ship, named Dali, bound for Sri Lanka, crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge yesterday at 1:30am in Maryland, causing it to collapse. Watch the video.
The ship was departing from Baltimore, Maryland w
It’s Wednesday, March 27th, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Jonathan Clark
161 acts of persecution against Christians so far in 2024
During the first 75 days of 2024, the United Christian Forum documented 161 incidents of persecution against Christians in India. Christians in the Hindu-majority country often face accusations of forced conversion.
The group noted Christians experienced the most persecution in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. It said, “There is clear evidence of state-sponsored harassment of Christians in this state, as the police file false allegations of conversion against pastors, even for praying in birthday parties and other social gatherings.”
One billion people in India expected to vote
Nearly a billion people will head to the polls in India next month. It’s considered the largest democratic election in history.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to win a third term in a row. His Hindu-nationalist party, known as the Bharatiya Janata Party, is also expected to remain in power.
India overtook China as the world’s most populated country last year. India also overtook the U.K. as the fifth largest economy in 2022 and is on track to be the third largest behind the U.S. and China.
Isaiah 40:15 reminds us, “Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the small dust on the scales; Look, [the Lord] lifts up the isles as a very little thing.”
Air & Space Museum in trouble for mocking pro-lifers
In the United States, a national museum agreed to a $50,000 settlement with pro-life tourists.
Twelve students visited the National Air and Space Museum last year, wearing pro-life apparel. Museum staff mocked the students and forced them to leave.
Patrick Murphy, one of those pro-life students, appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox show and explained what happened.
MURPHY: “We got done with the March for Life and we decided to go to the Air and Space Museum. We ended up at the Flight Brothers exhibit. At this time, we were addressed by security guards and they tell, ‘All people wearing a pro-life hat, take it off.’ One of the students with us proceeds to say, ‘We use these hats for identification purposes. This is for our group.’
“We were approached by a large man as we were walking out, rubbing his hands together, saying ‘Y'all are about to make my day!’ He tells us he's got reports saying we said no to taking our hats off and we're in trouble for some odd reason. I then said, ‘This is a violation of our First Amendment right. This is a government-funded building.’ He said, ‘It's a neutral zone, and that doesn't apply here.’ And we were blown away. We had almost no words.”
The Smithsonian oversees the museum and agreed to the settlement, offering the students a private tour.
Jordan Sekulow with the American Center for Law and Justice wrote, “This was a clear-cut First Amendment violation, not only of their freedom of speech but of religion as well. The federal government simply cannot ban speech with which it or its employees disagree.”
Kansas pro-life bill would end chemical abortion
In welcome news, Students for Life Action applauded the roll call vote on Senate Bill 286 in the Kansas Senate, which, if signed into law, will greatly increase pro-life protections in Kansas, stopping dangerous Chemical Abortion pills and ending intentional abortion.
This vote resulted from the hard work of Students for Life Action intern Cheyenne Vandeventer, who helped introduce the law in 2023, and was championed by Kansas GOP State Senator Dr. Mark Steffen.
Ship crashed into Baltimore bridge, causing collapse
A massive, Singapore-flagged container ship, named Dali, bound for Sri Lanka, crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge yesterday at 1:30am in Maryland, causing it to collapse. Watch the video.
The ship was departing from Baltimore, Maryland w