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It’s Thursday, March 28th, 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
Persecution continues against independent Chinese church
International Christian Concern reports police in China raided a church earlier this month for the second time in recent weeks.
Police arrested 18 members of the Fuyang Maizhong Reformed Church in the Anhui Province. The arrests included a church elder, named Chang Shun. Officials harassed church members as they were in a prayer meeting and confiscated phones and computers.
The church has notably refused to join the Three-Self Church which is state controlled.
China is the 19th most difficult country worldwide in which to be a Christian.
Thailand House approves homosexual faux marriage
In Thailand, lawmakers approved a bill to legalize faux homosexual marriage.
The country’s lower house of parliament approved the measure 400 to 10 yesterday. Thailand’s Senate and king must also approve it.
If the bill goes into effect, Thailand would become the third Asian country and the first Southeast Asian one to legalize vile passions.
Worldwide fertility rates declining
A new study by The Lancet evaluated global fertility rates.
Outside of Africa, the report projects every region will see fertility rates fall below the replacement birth rate of 2.1 by 2040.
Regions that have already fallen below the replacement rate include South Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia.
The U.S. fertility rate has fallen by half since 1980 and is expected to drop between 1 and 1.3 this century.
Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman, former VP candidate, died
Joe Lieberman, a longtime Democratic senator from Connecticut who became the first Jewish-American to be nominated on a major party’s ticket, died Wednesday, reports Politico.com. He was 82.
Lieberman’s family stated that he died “due to complications from a fall.”
Halfway through his 24-year Senate career, Lieberman was chosen as Al Gore’s running mate for the 2000 presidential election. The ticket lost one of the closest elections in American history to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
On December 12, 2012, he delivered his farewell speech from the Senate floor. And he challenged his Senate colleagues to lead toward fiscal solvency.
At the time of Senator Lieberman’s speech in 2012, the country was $16.3 trillion in debt. Today, we are $34.6 trillion in debt. It has doubled in just 12 years. The need for fiscal solvency has never been greater!
West Virginia, Utah, and Idaho passed religious liberty laws
Several states in the U.S. approved religious freedom measures.
Last Friday, West Virginia’s Republican Governor Jim Justice signed Senate Bill 503 into law. It would protect student groups, including Christian ones, that require members and leaders to hold to its beliefs.
Last Thursday, Utah’s Republican Governor Spencer Cox approved Senate Bill 150. The measure would put protections in the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act into state law.
And, on Monday, Idaho’s Republican Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 578. It would protect faith-based adoption agencies from government discrimination.
Pastors doing better than general public
A new study by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research found that pastors are faring better than the general public.
Researchers noted, “The survey shows that a majority of clergy seem quite healthy. The overall level of health and wellness exhibited by clergy is impressive–even given the level of the pastoral discontent uncovered in our earlier report.”
Pastors scored higher than the public the most when asked about understanding their life purpose.
In Philippians 3:14, the Apostle Paul wrote, “I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Credit card debt soared to $1.1 trillion
Credit card debt in the U.S. re
It’s Thursday, March 28th, 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
Persecution continues against independent Chinese church
International Christian Concern reports police in China raided a church earlier this month for the second time in recent weeks.
Police arrested 18 members of the Fuyang Maizhong Reformed Church in the Anhui Province. The arrests included a church elder, named Chang Shun. Officials harassed church members as they were in a prayer meeting and confiscated phones and computers.
The church has notably refused to join the Three-Self Church which is state controlled.
China is the 19th most difficult country worldwide in which to be a Christian.
Thailand House approves homosexual faux marriage
In Thailand, lawmakers approved a bill to legalize faux homosexual marriage.
The country’s lower house of parliament approved the measure 400 to 10 yesterday. Thailand’s Senate and king must also approve it.
If the bill goes into effect, Thailand would become the third Asian country and the first Southeast Asian one to legalize vile passions.
Worldwide fertility rates declining
A new study by The Lancet evaluated global fertility rates.
Outside of Africa, the report projects every region will see fertility rates fall below the replacement birth rate of 2.1 by 2040.
Regions that have already fallen below the replacement rate include South Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia.
The U.S. fertility rate has fallen by half since 1980 and is expected to drop between 1 and 1.3 this century.
Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman, former VP candidate, died
Joe Lieberman, a longtime Democratic senator from Connecticut who became the first Jewish-American to be nominated on a major party’s ticket, died Wednesday, reports Politico.com. He was 82.
Lieberman’s family stated that he died “due to complications from a fall.”
Halfway through his 24-year Senate career, Lieberman was chosen as Al Gore’s running mate for the 2000 presidential election. The ticket lost one of the closest elections in American history to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
On December 12, 2012, he delivered his farewell speech from the Senate floor. And he challenged his Senate colleagues to lead toward fiscal solvency.
At the time of Senator Lieberman’s speech in 2012, the country was $16.3 trillion in debt. Today, we are $34.6 trillion in debt. It has doubled in just 12 years. The need for fiscal solvency has never been greater!
West Virginia, Utah, and Idaho passed religious liberty laws
Several states in the U.S. approved religious freedom measures.
Last Friday, West Virginia’s Republican Governor Jim Justice signed Senate Bill 503 into law. It would protect student groups, including Christian ones, that require members and leaders to hold to its beliefs.
Last Thursday, Utah’s Republican Governor Spencer Cox approved Senate Bill 150. The measure would put protections in the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act into state law.
And, on Monday, Idaho’s Republican Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 578. It would protect faith-based adoption agencies from government discrimination.
Pastors doing better than general public
A new study by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research found that pastors are faring better than the general public.
Researchers noted, “The survey shows that a majority of clergy seem quite healthy. The overall level of health and wellness exhibited by clergy is impressive–even given the level of the pastoral discontent uncovered in our earlier report.”
Pastors scored higher than the public the most when asked about understanding their life purpose.
In Philippians 3:14, the Apostle Paul wrote, “I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
Credit card debt soared to $1.1 trillion
Credit card debt in the U.S. re
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