Its Thursday January 2nd AD 2020 This isThe Worldviewin 5 Minutesheard atwwwTheWorldviewcom Im Adam McManus

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Hindu radicals oppose Jesus Prayer Home

Hindu radicals in India reportedly attacked a large ceremony held last Saturday for the inauguration of a Christian community center in West Bengal stateaccording to the Indian English newspaperThe Telegraph

Armed with bombs and sticks 20 men attacked the 800 people from 28 different villages gathered to inaugurate the building called Jesus Prayer Home Four people including two children suffered injuries

Remarkably only 10 of the 800 were Christians Local Hindus feared the building would be used for Christian evangelism The radicals who carried out the attack are now under arrest

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuwon the primary contestfor control of his Likud Party with over 70 percent of the vote last Thursday despite facing charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust

He will lead his party in Israels national election in March the third national vote in a year

Netanyahu announced new achievements ahead including obtaining a defense pact with the US that will ensure Israeli freedom to act we will defeat Iran and achieve a peace pact with Arab countries

Daniel 417 reminds us That the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He will

Trump administration issues fewest regulations

The Trump administration broke the record in 2019 for issuing the fewest regulations since the government started counting in 1975according to Competitive Enterprise Institute vice president Clyde Wayne Crews

This marks the third year that the Trump administration has broken the record for fewest regulations

The Federal Register published 2964 final rules in 2019 some of which were written to replace or get rid of other rules

On December 20 President Donald Trumpsigned billsto repeal the parking lot tax that was part of the 2017 tax cut measure

The tax would have required houses of worship to pay a 21 percent tax on employee benefits like parking spaces and transit subsidies

The new bill is retroactive so churches can claim refunds for paying such taxes over the last two years

Bloomberg promises to codify Roe v Wade

Despite missing the first five Democratic debates Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg has spent tens of millions of dollars from his personal fortune and sits at fifth place among candidates but only at 5 percent according toa Hill-HarrisX poll

Like his more popular Democratic contenders the former New York City mayor ispushing for government-funded abortionin a plan he announced on Monday

Bloomberg said he would codifyRoe v Wadeinto federal law if elected and would repeal the Hyde Amendment which prohibits taxpayer funding of elective abortions through Medicare

Isaiah 597 says Their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed innocent blood

American workers wages are up

As global markets added 17 trillion in value last year and US unemployment reached a 50-year low in Octoberwages for low-income workersin America are rising at the fastest pace in over a decade

Wages for the lowest 25 percent of earners increased by 45 percent in November compared with the previous year And wages for the top 25 percent of earners increased by 29 percent from 2018

California policemen add In God We Trust decals to cars

Two cities in Kern County California voted last year to add In God We Trust to the decals on their police cars The Delano City Councilvoted for the measure first followed by the Bakersfield City Council

Reflecting on the past year outgoing Delano Mayor Joe Aguirretold The Record newspaper Delano has a strong faith-based background and ...

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6000 militia fighters stormed US Embassy in Baghdad Iraq

President Donald Trump announced that the US embassy in Baghdad Iraq is safe after some 6000 pro-Iran militia fighters stormed the compound on Tuesday set walls ablaze and chanted Death to America in a violent retaliation for American air strikes reports the Daily Mail

The president doubled down in his warning to Iran saying their government will be held fully responsible for the attack that forced the Pentagon to send 100 Marines as reinforcements to the Iraqi embassy

US fighter jets bombarded three locations in Iraq on Sunday night in retaliation for last weeks36-rocket attack which killed an American contractor and injured several others at a base in Kirkuk 170 miles north of Baghdad

42 million babies killed by abortion in 2019

A heartbreaking reminder about the prevalence of abortion asstatistics compiled by Worldometersindicate that there were over 423 million abortions world-wide in 2019 reports Life News

By contrast 82 million people died from cancer in 2019 5 million from smoking 13 million from disease and 17 million died of HIVAIDS

NBC host trashes Christians theyre trained to believe in fairytales

On Sunday NBC News political director Chuck Todd dedicated the finalMeet the Pressof 2019 to insisting President Trump had brought about a post-truth society reports Life News

TODD This morning Meet the Presstakes an in-depth look at our post-truth society and how a changing media landscape has created chaos out of order

The same network that pushed the discredited Steele dossier for years and tried to sink Justice Brett Kavanaghs nomination with the ridiculous allegations from Julie Swetnick wanted to lecture the public about falling for and spreading lies and misinformation In the process Todd lashed out at Christians for believing in fairy tales in the midst of his panel discussion

TODD I want to read you guys a letter to the editor we found in the Lexington Herald Leader It was a fascinating attempt to kind of explain why some people support President Trump Heres what he says Why do good people support TrumpIts because people have been trained from childhood to believe in fairy talesThis set their minds up to accept things that make them feel good The more fairy tales and lies he tells the better they feelShow me a person who believes in Noahs ark and I will show you a Trump voter

Genesis 6 5-8 12-14 says The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time The Lord regretted that He had made human beings on the earth and His heart was deeply troubled So the Lord said I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have createdand with them the animals the birds and the creatures that move along the groundfor I regret that I have made them But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord Noah was a righteous man blameless among the people of his time and he walked faithfully with God

God saw how corrupt the earth had become for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways So God said to Noah I am going to put an end to all people for the earth is filled with violence because of them I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth So make yourself an ark of cypress wood make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out

Mr Todd the story of Noahs ark is no fairy tale

Pastor Tony Evans wife died of cancer

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Chinese pastor sentenced to prison for 9 years for his faith

Pastor Wang Yi of the Early Rain Covenant Church has been sentenced to nine years in a communist prison for his stance for Christ reports Amnesty International Additionally the Chinese pastor was also fined 50000 Renminbi or 7000 US dollars

Prior to his arrest Yi released a statement in which he wrote Separate me from my wife and children ruin my reputation destroy my life and my family the authorities are capable of doing all of these things However no one in this world can force me to renounce my faith no one can make me change my life and no one can raise me from the dead Jesus is the Christ Son of the eternal living God He died for sinners and rose to life for us He is my king and the King of the whole earth yesterday today and forever I am His servant and I am imprisoned because of this I will resist in meekness those who resist God and I will joyfully violate all laws that violate Gods laws

Throughout 2019 Generations and The Worldview supported this church with thousands of dollars

Hebrews 133 says Remember the prisoners as if chained with themthose who are mistreatedsince you yourselves are in the body also

Imprisoned US Christian man asks for sentence to be vacated

Phillip Zodiahates a Christian businessman has filed a motion to vacate his sentence due to ineffective counsel which the judge is now considering Our brother in Christ has been in a US prison for over a year now for his part in providing transportation to a child and her mother who were attempting to escape court-imposed visitations with a lesbian

Zodiahates told the court that In 2009 newspaper reports were that Lisas child was being sexually abused When people are suffering abuse poverty or injustice and I am asked to help I do so Thus my natural instinct was to help her and her daughter become free of the abuse Helping others is always a primary motivation for me especially so when children are involved

The courts are expected to respond to Phillips appeal on February 20th

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Active Texas church shooter taken out by retired FBI agent

An active shooter at a Church of Christ in Fort Worth Texas was shot down by a member of the Church Security Team on Sunday within about 2-3 seconds of the attacker taking his first shot reports the Dallas Morning News

The shooter 43-year-old Keith Thomas Kinnunen killed two people just before a retired FBI Agent Jack Wilson shot and killed the alleged shooterOn his Facebook account Wilson said Im thankful to GOD that I have been blessed with the ability and desire to serve Him in the role of head of security at the church I am very sad in the loss of two dear friends and brothers in CHRIST but evil does exist in this world and I and other members are not going to allow evil to succeed

Dan Patrick the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Texas spoke to reporters yesterday morning about the church security response to the attack

PATRICK This church had its own security team They were well trained The heroism today is unparalleled

Kinnunen had a long history of assaults and batteries and was described by his ex-wife as battling a demon reports the Fort Worth Texas NBC affiliate

The Faith Based Security Network estimates that deaths from violent incidents in churches have increased from 3 in 2004 to 65 in 2016 and 118 in 2017

However as 2 Corinthians 104 instructs us For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds

Fellowship of Christian Athletes distributed 190000 Bibles this year

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ISIS terrorists beheaded 11 Christian hostages on Christmas Day

Bloodthirsty ISIS terrorists beheaded 11 male Christian hostages on Christmas Day in Nigeria reports the BBC

The militants said in a sickening video that the mass killing was in revenge for the deaths of our leaders including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Claiming to show their captives execution the clip was produced by ISISs media arm Amaq

Baghdadi died in a US raid on a compound near the village of Barisha on October 26

We place our hope in the promise of Proverbs 2115 When justice is done it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers

200 Evangelical leaders to Christianity Today Name Dem candidate you support for president

In a letter to Timothy Dalrymple the president of Christianity Today magazine nearly 200 evangelical faith leaders condemned both its editorial calling for the removal of President Donald Trump from office and its editor-in-chief Mark Galli for dismissing evangelicals who oppose his views on the matter as being far right reports Fox News

The faith leaders said that the editorial offensively questioned the spiritual integrity and Christian witness of tens-of-millions of believers who take seriously their civic and moral obligations

The letter states We are in fact not far-right evangelicals as characterized by the author Rather we are Bible-believing Christians and patriotic Americans who are simply grateful that our president has sought our advice as his administration has advanced policies that protect the unborn and promote religious freedom

The letter also assumes that Christianity Today will support a Democrat in the 2020 presidential election and issues a challenge to publicly declare which Democrat they will support

Senator Lindsay Graham to Dems Impeachment is a dead cat

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee busted out an unusual idiom in an interview with Fox News Maria Bartiromo as he demanded that Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turn President Donald Trumps articles of impeachment over to the Senate

GRAHAM To my Democratic colleagues impeachment is a dead cat Stop playing with it Bury it its going nowhere

If you call these witnesses who work for the president after hes invoked executive privilege if you deny him his day in court then youre abusing the constitutional rights of Donald Trump as president and youre putting the entire presidency at risk They impeached him for exercising his legal rights I hope the senators will not vote to compel witnesses before the court determines whether or not theres executive privilege

Biden would not testify in Senate trial if subpoenaed

In an interview with the Des Moines Register editorial board on Friday 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden said he will not testify at the Senate impeachment trial for President Donald Trump

Heres Des Moines Register Executive Editor Carol Hunter

HUNTER Do you stand by your earlier statements that you wouldnt comply if you were subpoenaed to testify and impeachment trial before the Senate

BIDEN Correct And the reason I wouldnt is because its all designed to deal with Trump doing what hes done his whole life trying to take the focus off him The issue is not what I did This is all about a diversion And we play his game all the time Hes done it his whole career Im very proud of the job I did I never never never moved off of dealing with corruption there

HUNTER Doesnt that position you as if youre defying a subpoena putting yourself above the law

BIDEN Lets say I v...

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50 Myanmar churches re-opened after 100 closed

Over50 churches in eastern Myanmar are reopeningafter ethnic rebels shut down over 100 churches in the countrys Shan State last year

Since September 2018 the rebel United Wa State Army which has close ties to China detained over 200 Christians and destroyed 10 church buildings and shut down even more in the Southeastern Asian nation

Rev Lazarus with theLahu Baptist Convention said We are very happy and we thank the Wa authorities for allowing us to reopen the churches We hope that they will also reopen the rest of closed churches

60000 Christians in Mongolia today vs 50 at fall of Communism

CBN News recently joinednearly 50 Christians from Russia who are traveling to remote provinces of nearby Mongolia to share the Gospel with those who have never heard it before

After the fall of communism nearly three decades ago there were only 10 Christians in Mongolia now there are about 60000 believers spread throughout the country Its one of the worlds least densely populated countries with just over three million people many of whom still live nomadic lifestyles

Russian pastor and missionary Pavel Barsokov led the trip which he has taken dozens of times and seen many come to Christ

Listen to these children recite the Lords prayer in Mongolian

audio of children reciting the Lords prayer in Mongolian

Psalm 2227 says All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD and all the families of the nations shall worship before You

British parliament votes for Brexit

British lawmakersvoted last weekin favor of moving forward with Prime Minister Boris Johnsons plan to leave the European Union by January 31 of next year

The bill now heads to the House of Lords for final approval

US Zambian Ambassador pulled over homosexuality

The US State Department has withdrawn Daniel Foote the ambassador to Zambia over tensions between Foote and the southern African nation on the issue of homosexuality reports LifeSiteNewscom

Zambias President Edgar Lungu said Foote was no longer welcome in the country after Foote criticized Zambia for sentencing two men convicted of sodomy

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LUNGU We are saying no homosexuality Why should you say were going to be civilized if we only allow it Are you saying that we are very primitive now because we are frowning upon homosexuality Even animals dont do it

President Lungu also said his country wasready to forfeit US aidif it was tied to acceptance of homosexuality

LUNGU Why should we be forced to do it because we want to be seen to be smart to be seen to be civilized and advanced and so forth They require help obviously For me I think theyre sick Thats how I see it but they need help

Supreme Court takes cases on religious classes in public schools

Among its final actions of the year the US Supreme Courtagreed to hear two caseson whether church schools or the government decide who can teach religious classes

The cases started in 2015 when teachers sued California Catholic schools for letting them go claiming it was discrimination

Initially federal district court judges sided with the schools saying religious groups cannot be sued for employment discrimination by people who are in ministerial positions

However the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the schools decisions saying the teachers roles were not religious enough to involve First Amendment protection

The case now goes before the Supreme Court

Good News Michigans signatures put pro-life bill up for vote

How would you like some good news On December 23 the Michigan Values Life coalitionsubmitted 37941...

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9 worst countries for religious freedom

Secretary of State Mike Pompeoannouncedthe US State Departments listof the most serious religious freedom violators last week

The countries of particular concern include Myanmar China Eritrea Iran North Korea Pakistan Saudi Arabia Tajikistan and Turkmenistan

Nigeria made it onto the departments next-tier-down special watch list for the first time because of the slaughter of thousands of Christians by Muslim militants in the West African country

Notably the African and Muslim-majority country of Sudan moved off the countries of particular concern list to the special watch list This follows the overthrow of 30-year dictator Omar al-Bashir and the establishment of a civilian-led transitional government They have stopped bulldozing church buildings and re-designated Christmas as a national holiday

Isaiah 144-5 says How the oppressor has ceased The LORDhas broken the staff of the wicked

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson celebrates birth of Christ

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnsonaddressed his nationin a Christmas message this week acknowledging Christmas Day was first and foremost a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ It is a day of inestimable importance to billions of Christians the world over

Johnson also called on people to remember the plight of persecuted Christians on Christmas Day reports the Guardian

JOHNSON Today of all days I want us to remember those Christians around the world who are facing persecution For them Christmas Day will be marked in private in secret perhaps even in a prison cell As Prime Minister thats something I want to change We stand with Christians everywhere in solidarity and will defend your right to practice your faith

Cubas new prime minister

Cuba appointed its current tourism minister Manuel Marrero Cruz to be itsfirst prime ministerin over 40 years since revolutionary leader Fidel Castro cut the position in 1976

The countrys new constitution this year included the position again Critics question the change as the Cuban Communist Party and the military remain in power

President Trumps 187 conservative judges including 13 last week

As 2019 comes to a close and after three years being in office President Donald Trump hasinstalled 187 judgesto the federal bench with 13 appointed last week

Trump has appointed one in four judges to the circuit courts which are second only to the Supreme Court When he began his presidency only four out 13 of the US appeals courts had a Republican-appointed majority now seven of the 13 do as three were flipped from Democratic-appointed to Republican-appointed this year

Indiana county affirms right to life of unborn babies

On Monday an Indiana county affirmed protection of human life in the womb joining more and more local governments across America

The Kosciusko County Board of Commissionersvoted unanimouslyfor a resolution stating that unborn babies have a right to life The resolution also encourages community support for families in need through pregnancy and parenting resources and adoption

You can send the commissioners a quick email of encouragement in our transcript today at wwwTheWorldviewcom

Other Indiana jurisdictions that have passed similar resolutions this year including Allen County and the cities of Huntertown Woodburn and New Haven

Which way is Magnetic North

Magnetic North is apparently on the run

Over the past 40 years the direction our compasses point has been moving by an average of 30 miles per year in the direction of Siberia

Ciaran Beggan a scientist from the British Geological Surveytold Business Insider Magnetic north h...

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Israel cracking down on Christmas pilgrimages to Bethlehem

Israel has only approved 192 out of 951 applications of Gaza Christians who wish to travel to Bethlehem on their Christmas Pilgrimage reports International Christian Concern

Its estimated that there are only 1000 Orthodox Christians living in Gaza out of a population of 2 million By contrast three years ago Israel had issued 600 permits to Christians to travel to Bethlehem on their Christmas Pilgrimage

Pilgrimages are a common practice for Orthodox Christians especially during the Easter and Christmas seasons

House considering second impeachment of Trump

Get this The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is open to the prospect of impeaching President Donald Trump a second time if the House uncovers new evidence according to lawyers for the Judiciary Committee reports Politicocom

However the Justice Department attorneys said the House Judiciary Committees decision to move forward with impeachment last week means theres no longer urgency to resolve the Houses case That bolsters the Trump administrations argument that the courts should simply butt out of the legal showdown

McConnell wants swift impeachment trial in Senate

On Monday Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that he was not ruling out calling witnesses in President Donald Trumps impeachment trial but indicated he was in no hurry to seek new testimony either as lawmakers remain at an impasse over the form of the trial by the GOP-controlled Senate reports the Associated Press

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is demanding witnesses who refused to appear during House committee hearings including acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security adviser John Bolton

McConnell who has all-but-promised a swift acquittal of the president has resisted making any guarantees and has cautioned Trump against seeking the testimony of witnesses he desires for fear of elongating the trial Instead he appears to have secured Republican support for his plans to impose a framework drawn from the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton

Christmas shopping on Saturday biggest in US retail history

Christmas shopping set records over the weekend with Super Saturday sales reaching 344 billion the biggest single day in US retail history according to Customer Growth Partners

Craig Johnson president of the retail research firm said Paced by the Big Four mega-retailers -- Walmart Amazon Costco and Target -- Super Saturday was boosted by the best traffic our team has seen in years reports MSNcom

Job growth and fatter wallets along with stronger household finances have put consumers in a buying mood this season And more of them are shopping online As retailers offer improved web platforms online spending so far this season has accounted for 58 of sales growth from a year ago

Kevin Costner endorses homosexual Mayor Peter Buttigieg

Kevin Costner has endorsed homosexual Mayor Peter Buttigieg for the 2020 presidential election according to the Hollywood Reporter

On Sunday the Field of Dreams actor returned to Iowa to praise the candidate for being a man of his moment

Costner needs to read Leviticus 1822 which declares You shall not lie with a male as with a woman it is an abomination

Christian Post editor quits over pro-Trump editorial

Napp Nazworth an editor at The Christian Post has abruptly quit the publication after it aligned itself with President Donald Trump as part of a spiraling evangelical Christian civil war reports the Washington Post

Another evangelical publication Christianity Today magazine slammed the president as im...

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US budget increased from 44 trillion in 2019 to 5 trillion in 2020

To avoid a government shutdown President Donald Trump signed the 14 trillion fiscal year budget package into law over the weekend This was part of a 50 trillion full budget for Fiscal Year 2020 an increase from 44 trillion of spending in Fiscal Year 2019

TheCongressional Budget Office reports that the deficit for the first two months of Fiscal Year 2020 is 342 billion Thats 11 higher than the first two months of Fiscal Year 2019 The 2019 deficit equated to about 5 of the Gross Domestic Product up from 38 in 2018

By contrast President Barack Obamas last four years in office averaged deficits of 31 of the GDPThe budget for Fiscal Year 2020 is targeting a deficit of 5 of the GDP or 11 trillionHistorically the deficit has averaged about 3 of the GDP since the early 1980s

Christianity Today digs in its heels

The president of Christianity Today published a letter over the weekend defending the magazines editorial which advocated the removal of President Donald Trump from office by the Senate or the popular vote in November 2020

While insisting that the magazine is theologically conservative pro-life and pro-family Timothy Dairymple wrote that they could not longer stay silent on the matter of Donald Trumps impeachment He stated that this presidency has brought enormous damage to the Christian witness

Evangelicals and reformed writers continue to interact on the Christianity Today controversy

Peter Leithart of First Things concluded that On balance and considering the alternatives Trump should stay

Reformed Presbyterian author and blogger Carl Trueman wrote Trump is without doubt not the kind of person one would want to represent the nation

And author and radio host Eric Metaxas tweeted that What makes theCTmagazineeditorial odd if not preposterous is that it implies those like Biden or Pelosi who use the power of their offices to promote the murder of the unborn amp the demonization of a biblical sexual ethic less morally troubling than Trump amp his tweets

White evangelicals still support Trump in super majority

A recent survey conducted by the Public Policy Research Institute found that 75 of white evangelicals approve of President Donald Trump and 23 do not approveThat compares to 41 of Roman Catholics approve of President Donald Trump and 59 do not approve

This data basically correlates with the 81 of white evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 elections along with 45 of Catholics

Proverbs 282 provides wisdom here For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof but by a man of understanding and knowledge its state shall be prolonged

New Zealands gun buyback program

The government of New Zealand announced that a total of 50000 guns were removed from private owners through a buyback program reports ABC News

Back in March of 2019 New Zealand lawmakers banned ownership of military assault weapons by a vote of 119-1 and more restrictions are being considered including a registry of all gun ownership

Meanwhile the number of privately owned guns in the United States has increased from 240 million to 393 million since the year 2000 reports the Washington Post Of that number 10 million military-style rifles in private hands in the US

Iowa man gets 15 years in prison for burning homosexual flag

An Iowa man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing a homosexual flag from a local church and burning it

Adolfo Martinez was quoted by USA Today as saying he was living by Gods laws

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British girl discovers note from Chinese slave in Christmas cards

A 6-year-old British girl Florence Widdicombe from Tooting south London discovered a desperate note in her Tesco Christmas cards from caged slaves in China forced to work against their will

The Sunday Times reports that its believed to have been written by a foreign prisoner who was made to pack the cards in boxes at a gulag in Shanghai

Inside one card featuring a cute kitten in a Santa hat on the front it said We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China Forced to work against our will Please help us and notify human rights organisation

The note asked the finder to pass it to journalist Peter Humphrey who was locked up at Qingpu for nine months until June 2015 A more recent ex-prisoner said They have been packing Christmas cards for Tesco and also Tesco gift tags for at least two years

Hebrews 133 says Remember those who are in prison as though in prison with them and those who are mistreated since you also are in the body

North Koreans Christmas saber-rattling

American military and intelligence officials tracking North Koreas actions by the hour say they are bracing for an imminent test of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching American shores but appear resigned to the fact that President Trump has no good options to stop it

If no progress has been made on lifting sanctions Pyongyang promised a Christmas gift

Christianity Today calls for Trumps removal from office

On Friday President Donald Trump blasted Christianity Today magazine after it published an editorial by outgoing Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli arguing that Trump should either be removed from office by the Senate or by popular vote in the 2020 election because of his blackened moral record

President Trump tweeted that Christianity Today an evangelical magazine founded by the late Rev Billy Graham would rather have a Radical Left nonbeliever who wants to take your religion amp your guns than Donald Trump as your President

Cissie Graham Lynch the granddaughter of the late Billy Graham tweeted People often think they can speak on behalf of Billy Graham because they might think what he wouldve done or said Well they dont Shame on Christianity Today magazine to drag my grandfathers name in their article for their agenda

Franklin Graham said I hadnt shared who my father Billy Graham voted for in 2016 but because of Christianity Today magazines article I felt it necessary to share now My father knew Donald Trump believed in him amp voted for him He believed Donald J Trump was the man for this hour in history for our nation

Christianity Today Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli wrote that the need for Trumps removal is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr pushed back saying Less than 20 of evangelicals supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 but now Christianity Today Magazine has removed any doubt that they are part of the same 17 or so of liberal evangelicals who have preached social gospel for decades Christianity Today unmasked

And First Baptist Church of Dallas Senior Pastor Robert Jeffress tweeted President Trump is the most pro-life pro-religious liberty pro-Israel President in history

Three radical statements from Thursdays Democratic pres debate

Last Thursday nights Democratic presidential debate in Los Angeles hosted by PBSPolitico revealed how far left the party has gone

Heres former Vice President Joe Bidens take on how expendable blue-collar jobs would be under his Green New D...

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Christians endure persecution worldwide leading up to Christmas

Christians around the world are greeted with increased persecution during the Christmas season

In just a week this month Christians in India experiencedover six religious attacks leading to 10 arrests 25 Christian families without water and several churches including one with 600 members were shut down

In Indonesias West Sumatra province officialsbanned worship services and Christmas celebrationsin two locations a ban that has been in place since 1985

Also authorities in Iran continued theirpractice of arresting Christiansleading up to Christmas starting last week Last year the government arrested 114 Christians during the first week of December alone

Jesus said in John 1520 A servant is not greater than his master If they persecuted Me they will also persecute you

Send encouragement letter to imprisoned Cuban Christian homeschooling couple

In a related story Pastor Ramn Rigal and his wife Adya are behind bars this Christmas season as prisoners of conscience for homeschooling their children in Cuba reports the Home School Legal Defense Association

Check the linkin our transcript today attheworldviewcomto see how you can send a letter of encouragement to Pastor Ramn and his family

7 million acres burn after New South Wales greenlights abortion

In October Australias most populous state of New South Wales overturned a century-old law bydecriminalizing the murder of unborn babies becoming the last jurisdiction to do so in the country

Since that time New South Wales has declaredtwo states of emergency one in November and one this week in the face of over 100 wildfires in the province encroaching on Sydney

Wildfires have burned seven million acres of land destroyed 800 homes and killed six people across the country over the past few months Plus Australia had its hottest day on record this week in the middle of years of drought

Solomon prayed in 1 Kings 835-36 When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You when they pray toward this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin because You afflict them then hear in Heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk

Court of Appeals Obamacare mandate unconstitutional

The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruledWednesday that the Obamacare individual mandate is unconstitutional

The ruling sent the case back to a lower court on whether the rest of the law is also unconstitutional but the case may end up in the Supreme Court next year

The individual mandate would require most people to buy insurance insurance that could fund abortions with taxpayer money or premiums

President Trump asked for prayer prior to impeachment

On Wednesday the Democratic-led US House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on charges of abusing his power and obstructing Congress

Before the vote Trump took to Twitterto ask for prayer

Despite the proceedings or perhaps because of them Trump leads Democratic candidates Joe Biden Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in a national pollconducted by USA TODAYSuffolk Universitylast week

Pelosi refuses to send Articles of Impeachment to Senate

Now that President Trump has been impeached the next step is the Senate trial If the president is convicted by two-thirds of the Senate then hes removed from office However thats next to impossible since virtually every Republican has stood by the president

Nonetheless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuses to send Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell the formal Articles of Impeachment She offered ...