It’s Tuesday, December 9th, 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

Nigerian Muslims killed 48 Christians

A wave of deadly attacks in the Southern Taraba State in Nigeria resulted in the deaths of 48 Christians and hundreds of homes were reduced to ashes.

Religious leaders point to Muslim terrorists as freely killing, without any intervention from the Nigerian military. In an article by TruthNigeria.com, one resident said, “We made calls to the Nigerian military, but the personnel refused to pick up. Later, they switched off their phones.” 

Shockingly, Nigeria’s former Chief of Defense Staff, General Lucky Irabor, recently confirmed in a news interview that certain Nigerian politicians have been financing terror in the country.

Major Japanese earthquake

Japan just experienced its most severe earthquake in 10 years, reports The Guardian.   According to The Independent, 23 people were injured.

Yesterday’s tremor hit the northern part of Honshu, registering 7.6 on the Richter scale.

Japanese economy struggling

The nation's new Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, promises more government spending with a $110 billion stimulus package to fix the problem.

Japanese elderly dying without known relatives

Increasingly, Japan’s elderly are dying without any known relatives or family relationships. This is measured by unclaimed inheritances.  

Disturbingly, about $1 billion of unclaimed assets from elderly men and women, who have passed away, reverted to the Japanese federal treasury in 2024, reports The Japan Times.  That’s four times the amount in 2013. 

Above all, Japan needs the Gospel.  In the words of Ephesians 2:11-12,  “Remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh … were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.”

As of yesterday morning, Cambodia is back at war with Thailand, following a Trump-brokered peace agreement, reports Nation of Thailand.

Thailand’s air force is targeting Cambodia’s military operations.

Russia-Ukrainian peace plan  delayed again

There remains a disconnect between the United States and Europe on the Ukraine war resolution.  

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday and clarified that there was still no deal on the U.S. proposal of land swaps in Russia’s favor. 

China controls First World countries by lending money

Now, the Chinese government has set out to control nations by loans and grants — all of which have strings attached.  That’s the essence of a report from AidData.org.  

Chinese loan commitments are extending into First World countries, of which the United States tops the list — followed by Australia, Russia, Venezuela, Pakistan, Angola, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

Chinese state-owned lenders have opened up about $1 trillion of credit to high-income countries, with the United States leading the pack as the largest debtor to China. According to the report, “China remains the world’s largest official creditor, lending approximately $140 billion to public sector and private sector borrowers around the globe in 2023.”  

Proverbs 22:7 warns, “The debtors are servants to the lenders.”

The Trump administration cut $600 million this year from various international groups’ family planning budgets.  

This cut was quickly compensated for by the Gates Foundation, which recently announced another $2.5 billion to the program. 

30-somethings are 10% less likely to own a home

A new report finds that 30-somethings here in the United States are drawn to risky investments like Bitcoin, but less likely to buy homes.

The report projected that young folks, born in the 1990s, would have a home ownership rate that will be 10% lower, upon their retirement, than their parents' generation.  Home affordability is affecting the younger buyers.

Samaritan’s Purse sending 12 million children Christmas gifts

And finally, Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child is well under way toward collecting 12 million shoe boxes containing toys, necessities, and the Gospel message for children in 100 countries around the world.  That’s up from 9 million shoe boxes filled in 2020.

A vision inspired by Franklin Graham, Operation Christmas Child got started in 1993, when the organization distributed 28,000 shoe box gifts to children in the Balkans in southeastern Europe.

Since then, Operation Christmas Child has collected and delivered more than 232 million gift-filled shoe boxes to children in more than 170 countries and territories.

For late comers, there are 8 processing centers still open around the country to receive the Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes -- in Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, and Charlotte, North Carolina.

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