Its Thursday March 31st AD 2022 This isThe Worldviewin 5 Minutesheard atwwwTheWorldviewcom Im Adam McManus AdamTheWorldviewcom
By Jonathan Clark
Russian troops released Ukrainian-American pastor
Praise God Russian troops released Ukrainian-American Pastor Dmitry Bodyu on Monday reports ChurchLeaderscom
Troops kidnapped Pastor Bodyu on March19th as he continued to serve his church in Melitopol in southeastern Ukraine
As wepreviously reported Protestant churches in Ukraine are facing oppression as they come under Russian occupation
Despite war Ukrainian Christians singing
Jeff King president of International Christian Concernshared a clipof Ukrainian Christians singing
audio of singing
And in this soundbite a Christian Ukrainian is reading Psalm 3116
reading in Ukrainian language
MAN Let Your face shine upon your servant save me in your unfailing love
Ukrainian forces pushed Russia back in the Southwest
Russiacontinued to bombardKyiv as well as the northern Ukrainian city of ChernihivThis comes despite Russia saying they would scale back operations in those areas on Monday About 100000 people aretrapped in Chernihivwith only enough food to last for a week
Over the past week Ukrainian troops have recaptured areas on the outskirts of Kyiv and pushed back Russian troops in the southwest
Finland dropped charges against Christian woman
Yesterday a court in Finlanddismissed all chargesagainst a Finnish Parliamentarian and a Lutheran bishop over their Biblical views on marriage and sexual ethics
Pivi Rsnen a Finnish Member of Parliament faced criminal charges for a 2019 tweet where she described sexually perverted lifestyles as sin
After the ruling Rsnen said I am so grateful the court recognized the threat to free speech and ruled in our favor I hope that this ruling will help prevent others from having to go through the same ordeal
Air Force denied 5000 COVID-shot religious accommodation requests
Dozens of Christian members of the US Air Force aresuing the US Defense Departmentfor moving to terminate them over their religious beliefs
The Christian airmen face termination and even court martial for not getting a COVID-19 shot that would violate their religious convictions
As of this month the Air Force has denied over 5000 COVID-shot religious accommodation requests with a rejection rate of over 99
TheAlliance for Free Citizensis representing the airmen in their case
Bidens budget greenlights tax-funded abortions
President Joe Bidens 58 trillion proposed budget for next year allows fortaxpayer funding of abortionby eliminating the Hyde Amendment
The new budget would increase Title X family planning funding by 40 This would essentially create a 400 million slush fund for abortion giant Planned Parenthood
The budget also authorizes abortion funding oversees
Will Smiths slap of comedian Chris Rock
The 2022Oscarshad thesecond-lowest viewershipin its history up slightly from last years worst viewership
The deaf family drama CODAfrom Apple TV became the first streaming service film to receive the award for best picture
Will Smith won best actor for playing Richard Williams in the filmKing Richard a drama about tennis star Serena Williams Smith drew headlines at the Oscars afterslapping comedianChris Rock on stage for making a joke about his wife
The award for best original screenplay writing went toBelfast a drama about a Protestant family in Northern Ireland
MovieGuide noted issues with each film but also commented on strong Christian moral and pro-family elements in the films
Tulsa church leaves liberal United Methodist denomination
And finally a large church in Tulsa Oklahoma announced it is leaving the United Methodist Church Americas seco...