October 02, 2025

U.S. Gov’t shutdown @ midnight Wednesday, Filipino earthquake kills 60, Wycliff Bible Translators released 23 complete Bibles & 95 New Testaments

It’s Thursday, October 2nd, 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 Jonathan Clark

Hindus barged into church assaulted pastor and destroyed Bibles

Praise God! A court in India recently acquitted a Christian who faced charges under an “anti-conversion” law.

The state of Uttarakhand passed the measure in 2018. Pastor Nandan Singh Bisht was the first Christian charged under the law. He faced years of legal battles. However, a judicial magistrate finally cleared the pastor of all charges on September 17th.

The case began in 2021. Pastor Bisht gathered with 25 Christians in his house for prayer. In response, local Hindus barged into the house, destroyed their Bibles, and assaulted the pastor. Despite the ordeal, Pastor Bisht told Morning Star News that God was “always faithful and sustained my family’s needs. This is the result of answered prayers.”

In Matthew 5:11-12, Jesus said, “Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in Heaven.”

Filipino earthquake kills 60

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the Philippines on Tuesday.

The powerful quake killed at least 60 people and injured over 150 more.

Philippine Red Cross Chairman Richard Gordon told CNN, “Some churches partially collapsed, and some schools had to be evacuated. This [earthquake] was a sleeper. It crept up on us.”

Wycliff Bible Translators released 23 complete Bibles & 95 New Testaments

Wycliffe Bible Translators released their latest statistics on Tuesday.

Over the past year, translators have released 23 complete Bibles and 95 New Testaments.

This work brings the whole Bible to nearly 200 million more people.

James Poole, the executive director of Wycliffe Bible Translators, stated, “In recent years, we have seen an extraordinary surge in Bible translation. Progress is happening at a pace and scale not witnessed before, and whole communities are beginning to receive the Scriptures far sooner than we could once have imagined.”

Scottish police arrest pro-life grandmother for second time

Police in Scotland recently re-arrested a 75-year-old pro-life grandmother for standing outside an abortion mill

Rose Docherty simply held a sign that read, “Coercion is a crime, here to talk, only if you want.” It’s the second time authorities arrested her under Scotland's buffer zone law.

The U.S. State Department told The Telegraph, “The arrest of Rose Docherty is another egregious example of the tyrannical suppression of free speech happening across Europe.”

U.S. Gov't shutdown @ midnight Wednesday

The U.S. government entered a shutdown at midnight on Wednesday.

Congressional leaders could not reach a deal to pass a spending bill by the deadline. Republicans are calling for spending cuts, while Democrats are pushing for more social programs and foreign aid.

Listen to comments from Vice President J.D. Vance.

VANCE: “To the American people who are watching, the reason your government is shut down at this very minute is because, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of congressional Republicans and even a few moderate Democrats supported opening the government, the Chuck Schumer/AOC wing of the Democratic Party shut down the government because they said to us, ‘We will open the government, but only if you give billions of dollars of funding for healthcare for illegal aliens.”

Previously, the federal government has had 20 funding gaps, resulting in 10 shutdowns since 1976.

Contemporary Christian Music ranked 4th and religious stations ranked 2nd

Inside Radio released the top 10 radio formats based on current month counts.

Religion-formatted stations ranked second, and Contemporary Christian Music ranked fourth. Of the top 10, only Contemporary Christian has welcomed new stations into the format every month over the last year. Religion-formatted stations also saw consistent growth.

Other music formats like Country and Top 40 lost a significant number of stations.

Public & private school students bring their Bible to school today

And finally, today is Focus on the Family’s annual Bring Your Bible to School Day.

Nearly 1.3 million people and over 10,000 churches participated last year.

Emerson Collins is the Parenting and Youth Program Manager for Focus on the Family. He told The Christian Post, “We’re looking at thousands of churches, thousands of schools and 2 million students total participating.”

Collins said the celebration is not just about bringing Bibles to school but also talking about Christ. He noted, “That’s what we’re hoping to create is the curiosity, the connection and the conversation around Christ and the Gospel.”

The celebration is inspired this year by James 1:22. The verse says, “Be doers of the Word, and not hearers only.”

And that's The Worldview on this Thursday, October 2nd, in the year of our Lord 2025. 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.

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