It’s Tuesday, February 17th, A.D. 2026. 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 and Timothy Reed
90,000 Nigerians displaced due to Islamic violence
More than 90,000 Catholic Nigerians have been displaced in the Southern Taraba State since September 2025, reports International Christian Concern.
According to the Catholic Diocese of Wukari, over 100 people have been killed and thousands more wounded in that same time frame.
U.S. funds United Nations, Dept of Ed, and Nat’l Institutes of Health
The Trump administration is still funding the United Nations.
President Donald Trump approved another $3 billion dollars to the international organization in early February, according to Reuters. The U.S. has averaged $2.5 billion dollars of funding each year for the United Nations, over the last twenty years. America joined the United Nations back in 1945, and is its largest donor.
And, despite vowing to close down the U.S. Department of Education during his campaign, the president has signed a government funding bill that will jack up the Education Department budget 2025 levels by $217 million for a total of $79 billion. That’s $12 billion more than the administration’s original request.
Plus, the National Institutes of Health gets another increase of $415 million over Fiscal Year 2025. In total, $48.7 billion of taxpayer money will keep this bureaucracy alive and flourishing.
Republican states take action to cut property taxes
Several Republican-majority states are working to reduce and eliminate property taxes for citizens.
North Dakota, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, and Texas have made progress. Plus, Tennesseans will consider a ballot measure this November to eliminate the property tax.
Several states are also working to trim or fully end state income taxes, with nine states having zero income tax in 2026.
One-third of young women call themselves homosexual or transgender
The Gallup polling organization released new numbers on Americans identifying with a list of sexual perversions.
Now, 9% of U.S. adults call themselves sexually perverted, up from 7% in 2023, and 3.5% in 2012.
The increase has occurred with the younger generation primarily. Now, almost a quarter of 20-somethings and roughly one-third of young women call themselves homosexual or transgender.
Also, 10% of the 30 to 49-year-olds claim these perverse identities.
Transgender murderers kill at 10 times rate of general population
As The Worldview reported on February 12, the mass murderer held responsible for perpetrating Canada’s worst school shooting in recent history was a man pretending to be a woman, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Jesse Van Rootselaar killed his mother and seven others, and wounded 27, before killing himself in the massacre in a remote town in British Columbia.
Another man pretending to be a woman, Robert Westman, was the perpetrator at the Annunciation Catholic School shooting last August. At least five other mass-casualty shootings are attributed to men and women attempting to change their gender. That includes the Aberdeen, Maryland Rite Aid shooting, the STEM School killings in Denver, Colorado, the Club Q massacre in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Covenant School massacre in Nashville, Tennessee.
Also, the Iowa Perry High School perpetrator appeared to be pushing the transgender agenda. A recent study from National Review found that transgender suspects participate in mass shootings at a rate of 10 times that of the rest of the population.
Alabama’s Governor signs Child Predator Death Penalty Act
Alabama Republican Governor Kay Ivey signed the Child Predator Death Penalty Act into law late last week, reports WVTM13. This law assigns the death penalty to crimes of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy, and first-degree sexual assault of victims under age 12.
Biblical law assigns a serious penalty to those who kidnap or seize people against their will. Exodus 21:16 says, “Now one who kidnaps someone, whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall certainly be put to death.”
Kansas governor vetoes law to keep boys out of girls spaces
Kansas Democratic Governor Laura Kelly vetoed a bill passed by the Kansas legislature that would have kept biological males out of women's bathrooms.
The bill would have prosecuted any men, pretending to be women, who trespass in women’s spaces, on repeated offenses. Hopefully, the state legislature will override the veto, given that the Republican Party holds a two-thirds majority in both houses.
So far, 20 states have passed laws that ban men from invading women's spaces.
Proverbs 17:13 reminds us, “Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.”
Puerto Rico affirms value of human life from conception
Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer González-Colón signed a bill that affirms the humanity and dignity of an unborn child, from the moment of conception.
Governor González-Colón said the bill “classifies as first-degree murder the intentional and knowing killing of a pregnant woman, resulting in the death of the unborn child at any stage of gestation within the mother’s womb.” This was passed mainly for purposes of homicide and criminal law.
While this personhood law does not automatically ban abortion outright in Puerto Rico, pro-lifers are hopeful it will pave the way for future legal protections of unborn babies.
47% of Americans think visitors from other planets have visited Earth
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Interest in extraterrestrials and UFOs is at an all-time high in the United States.
A “Yougov” survey found 47% of Americans believe extraterrestrials have visited the Earth. Former President Barack Obama says ET’s probably exist. But he clarified on Instagram that, “I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.”
Pokemon card sells for $16 million
And finally, a trading card has netted the highest private sale amount in history. A Pokeman card took in over $16 million over the weekend.
That beats the last world record sale of a 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card, which sold for $12.6 million in 2022.
There were only 41 of this particular Pokemon card produced in 1998. That compares to 75 billion Pokemon cards printed in 2025.
Pokeman is a game wherein the players play-act the harnessing of the power wielded by demons or monsters.
And that's The Worldview on this Tuesday, February 17th, in the year of our Lord 2026. Follow us on X or subscribe for free by Spotify, Amazon Music, or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus ([email protected]). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.
United States military strikes ISIS in Syria
The US military conducted strikes on more than 30 ISIS targets in Syria since the beginning of February.
According to US Central Command, or CENTCOM, the attacks "struck ISIS infrastructure and weapons storage targets with precision munitions delivered by fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and unmanned aircraft."
CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper said, “Striking these targets demonstrates our continued focus and resolve for preventing an ISIS resurgence in Syria. Operating in coordination with coalition and partner forces to ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS makes America, the region and the world safer."
More than 50 ISIS terrorists have reportedly been killed in the past couple of months by the United States military.
Tensions remain high between the US and the Middle East, with all eyes on potential military action in Iran.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act requiring those who vote in American elections to provide proof of citizenship.
The bill passed 218-213, with every House Republican voting in favor of the measure. Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar also crossed the aisle to vote for the law.
The law is touted by Republicans as a simple way to secure American elections and to eliminate cheating and foreign influence. Americans also overwhelmingly favor the requirement of a photo ID to cast a vote.
However, the bill faces a hard road in the Senate, with Republicans holding only 53 seats, but needing 60 votes to pass the SAVE Act.
Psalm 67:4 says, “O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon Earth.”
