It’s Friday, February 23rd, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (
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By Adam McManus
Ukrainian priest likely killed by Russian occupation forces
The bruised body of a Ukrainian priest, who was detained by Russian occupation forces, turned up on a village street last Thursday, with an unconfirmed report of a bullet wound to the head, reports The Christian Post.
The Rev. Stepan Podolchak, age 59, of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, disappeared on February 13 in the Ukrainian village of Kalanchak after Russian occupation forces took him away for questioning in his bare feet with a bag over his head. The priest had chosen to remain with his church after Russians invaded the village in southern Skadovsk District of Kherson Region in early 2022.
Podolchak’s battered body was taken to the morgue after a passer-by found it, and a morgue staff member phoned his shocked wife to ask her to identify it. His family buried the priest’s body in Kalanchak on Sunday.
In 1 Chronicles 16:22, God warns, “Do not touch My anointed ones; do My prophets no harm.”
German taxi driver, a convert from Islam, fined over Bible quote sticker
A German taxi driver and Christian convert from Islam has been fined over a Bible quote sticker on his car’s rear window due to what his city refers to as unlawful “religious advertising,” reports LifeSiteNews.com.
According to Alliance Defending Freedom, Jalil Mashali was threatened with a fine of up to 1,000 euros in October due to a small sticker on his taxi that displays a cross and reads, “Jesus – I am the way. The truth. And the life.” (John 14:6) The city of Essen argues that the sticker violates an ordinance applying to taxis that prohibits religious advertising.
The Christian convert refused to remove the sticker, and city authorities are now demanding a fine of $95.
Mashali is challenging the fine with the backing of ADF International. He argues that “due to the content, location, and small size of the sticker,” it does not constitute advertising.
He said, “Jesus is the best thing I could recommend to anyone because He changed my life. That’s why I have the sticker on my car for anyone who is interested to see.”
Romans 1:16 says, “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.”
In the worst case scenario, Mashali could lose his taxi driver’s license.
Nikki Haley: “70% of Americans don’t want Trump or Biden!”
Appearing on Fox News with Faulkner Harris, GOP presidential contender Nikki Haley explained why she is a better option than Trump in the primaries and Biden in the general election.
HALEY: “Seventy percent of Americans have said they don't want Trump or Biden.”
HARRIS: “True.”
HALEY: “They are the most disliked politicians in America; 60% of Americans have said Donald Trump's too old and Joe Biden's too old to run for president.
“We have to win. And we need a new generational leader that can put in eight years of hard work day and night, making sure we get things done. No drama, no vendettas. Just results for the American people. I'm determined to go to every single state and give people the right.
“If 70% don't want Trump or Biden, let them have another option. Let's let them vote. Let's let this play out. Ten days after South Carolina, 20-plus states and territories will vote. Let's let that happen.”
Is Nikki Haley staying in race in case Trump is convicted?
As pollster Frank Luntz guested on CNN, anchor Abby Phillip speculated about what might be truly motivating Nikki Haley to stay in the presidential race despite the fact that she has no clear path to victory in the primaries.
PHILLIP: “When she says, Frank, that she’s going to stay in until the last vote is counted, how much of that calculation is about just staying in the race to be a failsafe if something were to happen and Trump gets co