It’s Monday, March 18th, A.D. 2024.  This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com.  I’m Adam McManus.  ([email protected])

By Adam McManus

Coptic Christian Egyptian woman forced to convert to Islam

Authorities in Egypt participated in the kidnapping and forcible conversion to Islam of a Coptic Christian woman, reports Morning Star News.

Irene Shehata, a 21-year-old medical student at Asyut National University, disappeared on January 22 between mid-term exams in Asyut.

Her father reported in February that she had managed to make a desperate, tearful call to her brother before a man seized the phone, according to Coptic Solidarity.

During the call, Irene begged her brother either to rescue her or consider her dead and told him her location. Her brother heard her screaming, someone was yelling at her, and then the call ended. It seemed that she used the kidnapper’s phone without his permission.

Having learned that she was in the city of Sohaj, the family went there and reported the phone call and her location to police. Oddly enough, the police threatened to arrest the family if they tried to rescue her and warned them that the kidnappers were armed.

Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when a wicked man rules, the people groan.”

State Security officials have been dismissive and hostile to Irene’s family, telling her father that she ran off with a Muslim man of her own free will.

But the family described her kidnappers as “an organized terrorist group led by the Muslim Brotherhood to kidnap Christian girls in the Middle East.” The father said six other Christian girls or women “disappeared” from the area in one recent month.

Egypt ranks 38th on Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List of the 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian.

Georgia prosecutor against Trump resigned

Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor working with the Fulton County District Attorney's Office, resigned his post after a judge ruled Friday that District Attorney Fani Willis and her office may remain on the 2020 election case involving former President Donald Trump and his allies if Wade stepped aside, reports CBS News.

Wade's resignation as special prosecutor came hours after Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee laid out two options that would allow for the continued prosecution of the racketeering case against Trump and his co-defendants stemming from an alleged scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. 

Defense attorneys zeroed in on Fani Willis’ inappropriate romantic relationship with Nathan Wade in which she benefited financially since Wade paid for their romantic getaway trips to Aruba, Belize, and Napa, California, using money he received through his contracts to be special prosecutor in the Trump case.

Judge McAfee's order came after he tossed out six counts included in the indictment returned in August, including three against Trump. 

Mike Pence will not endorse Donald Trump

During an interview Friday afternoon with Martha MacCallum on FOX News, former Vice President Mike Pence said he will not be endorsing former President Donald Trump in 2024.

MacCALLUM: “We have not spoken since former President Trump sewed up the nomination. Will you be endorsing your former president. You were on the ticket with him last time around?”

PENCE: “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year. I'm incredibly proud of the record of our administration. It was a conservative record that made America more prosperous, more secure, and saw conservatives appointed to our courts, and a more peaceful world.

“That being said, during my presidential campaign, I made it clear that there were profound differences between me and President Trump on a range of issues, and not just our difference on my constitutional duties that I exercised on January the sixth.  

As I have watched his candidacy unfold, I've seen him walking away