It’s Tuesday, October 28th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I’m Adam McManus. ([email protected])

By Kevin Swanson

South African government regulating churches

Earlier this month, the South African government agency, known as the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights Commission, launched a committee to regulate churches in the country.

The new committee will most likely make determinations as to “what qualifies as a religion,” who may be recognized as a religious leader, and where churches may worship. The concern is also that this governmental power would force churches to come under State-approved umbrella bodies.

The nation’s churches have scheduled a march to the Parliament building in Cape Town, the capital of South Africa, on November 13th.

South Africa rejects self-defense as reason to own a gun

The South African Parliament is also considering additional restrictions on firearms to remove “self-defense” as a valid reason to own a gun.

This would remove meaningful protection for families, farms, and churches from violent criminals, in one of the most violent nations on Earth.

The Communists and the left-leaning African National Congress have 51% control of the South African parliament.

Turmoil in Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist government is still in turmoil.

At this moment, 38 of the 205 members of the central committee failed to appear for the big Plenum session last week. Of the 33 generals on the Committee, 22 were missing.

Trump to meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping on Asian tour

President Donald Trump met with Japan’s newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi yesterday.

This week, he will move on to high level meetings in South Korea and China, with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. 

The White House announced that President Trump has signed historic peace deals with Cambodia and Thailand, trade deals with Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, and minerals deals with Malaysia and Thailand.

Javier Milei’s mid-term election triumph in Argentina

The results for Argentina’s mid-term elections are in.  And Javier Milei’s Libertarian Party crushed it, reports Reuters.

Now, Milei’s party has 41% control of the legislature which is up from 26% in 2023. The left wing party dropped off from 44% to 32% which is an 11% decline.

Milei’s agenda will have stronger legislative backing for more reforms in tax reduction and deregulation of business for the country.

Bolivia rejects socialism

And, by God’s sovereign order of things, Bolivia has a new president as of last week, reports CBS News.

Rodrigo Paz is more centrist — a change after 20 years of socialism in this mountainous country of South America.

Not surprisingly, socialist countries like Venezuela and Bolivia are the poorest countries in all of South America.

King Charles III glorified sodomy

King Charles III of England glorified homosexuality yesterday by placing flowers at a newly constructed memorial to homosexuals serving in the nation’s military, reports The Times.

Prince Charles’s mentor and uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, served as Britain’s Chief of Defense in the 1960s, and was reported in 2019 as “a homosexual with a perversion for young boys.”

King Charles III joined Pope Leo XIV for worship

King Charles III made other news headlines last week, when he participated in a public worship service with the Roman Catholic Pope Leo XIV.  

This was the first time a reigning British monarch joined the Pope for such events since the Reformation.

King Charles and his wife, Camilla, sat on golden thrones under Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" fresco in the Sistine Chapel for the ecumenical service. 

Joel 3 reminds us of God’s judgement.   “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations. Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow — for their wickedness is great.”

Putin celebrates successful test of missile

Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrated a successful test for the Burevestnik missile over the weekend, reports CBS News.

Putin announced that the armament was ready for deployment, after it completed a 10,000-mile flight.

Plus, according to the Russian military, the missile “successfully performed all designated vertical and horizontal maneuvers, demonstrating its strong ability to evade anti-missile and air defense systems.”

Hurricane Melissa: Biggest one to hit Caribbean

Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is barreling down on Jamaica.

It’s the strongest hurricane to hit the Caribbean nation in recorded history. 

America’s most lethal aircraft carrier off Venezuelan coast

Meanwhile, the U.S. Military is sending its most lethal aircraft carrier from European waters into the Caribbean for the ongoing drug war, now heating up somewhere off the shores of Venezuela, reports TheHill.com.

The main target for the flurry of activity appears to be Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom the Trump administration has called an “illegitimate leader.”

Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was asked about possible land strikes in Venezuela.

BRENNAN: “Are land strikes planned?”

GRAHAM: “Yeah, I think that's a real possibility. I think President Trump's made a decision that [Venezuelan President Nicolás] Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, is an indicted drug trafficker, that it's time for him to go. Venezuela and Colombia have been safe havens for ‘narco terrorists’ for too long.”

Oil likely will cost less in 2026

America’s oil wells are pumping it out.  

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth told Fox Business host Maria Bartiroma, that gas prices in 2026 may very well be lower than they were this year.

BARTIROMA: “Can you give us a sense of what you would expect for 2026?”

WIRTH: “Yeah, I think we see supply growing, particularly from the OPEC-supplying countries, and demand growing steadily. But as this supply comes back, it's weighing on commodity markets. So, we're prepared for prices in ‘26 to be lower than they were in ‘25.”

Christian pastors arrested for child p*rn

And finally, assorted national news stories report that Christian pastors and leaders have been recently arrested for possession of extreme evil forms of pornography involving children.  

Singer and worship leader Jon Paul Sheptock, of First Montgomery Baptist Church, is under arrest, reports the Baptist Press. 

The Idaho Statesman reports that the senior pastor at Sovereign Grace Fellowship in Nampa, Idaho was arrested for handling images of a “horrific” nature.

Another Baptist youth pastor from Greenville, South Carolina was just sentenced to twenty years for a similar offense.

A pastor of the House of Prayer Christian Church in Georgia has been indicted by a federal court for similar offenses.

And another former youth pastor at the Southcoast church in Goleta, California has been arrested on related charges.

Jeremiah speaks of religious scandals in the churches. The prophet wrote, “My heart within me is broken because of the prophets. . . For the land is full of adulterers; For because of a curse the land mourns. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up. Their course of life is evil, and their might is not right. “For both prophet and priest are profane; Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the Lord. I will bring disaster on them, the year of their punishment.” (Jeremiah 23:9-12)

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