It’s Tuesday, September 10th, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)

By Kevin Swanson

Russian army has destroyed or harmed 630 Ukrainian churches

Mission Eurasia reports that 630 Ukrainian church buildings have been harmed or destroyed, in the ongoing war with Russia — including 206 Evangelical “houses of prayer.” This includes 73 in the Kiev area, and the majority in the south and east areas of Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson.  

Those affected include the Ukrainian Pentecostal Church which had 94 buildings harmed or destroyed, Evangelical Christian-Baptists which had 60 buildings harmed or destroyed, and the Seventh-Day Adventists, which had 27 buildings harmed or destroyed.

According to the report, “The Russian armies have conducted searches, made lists of the church members who were present, and collected their personal and biometric information, which they used for further surveillance. After such raids, the faithful were forbidden from conducting any activity in their religious community’s premises. In seized church buildings, occupation authorities sawed off crosses and used the premises to house their administrative institutions as bases for Russian soldiers and offices of the Kremlin’s political party, United Russia.” 

And by the spring of 2023, “almost all non-Orthodox churches in occupied territories were stripped of their right to hold church services.” In one Ukrainian region controlled by Russia, the report found “only one out of 20 religious communities active in the first denomination, none are left out of 16 communities in the second denomination, and four remain out of 48 communities in the third denomination.”

Brazilian public revolt over banning of X social media platform

What has been touted as the largest free speech rally in the world took place on the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil on Saturday.

Tens of thousands of people flooded into the streets to protest the Luiz Lula government’s banning of Elon Musk’s X platform.  

Former president Jair Bolsonaro joined the crowd, elements of which called for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Moraes ordered a nationwide ban of X on August 30th, assigning a $9,000-a-day fine for any Brazilians who use Virtual Private Networks to access their X accounts.

Former GOP Congresswoman Liz Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris

Last Wednesday, former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming,  announced that she will be voting for Kamala Harris. She made the remarks at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina to the applause of the liberal students, reports The Duke Chronicle.

LIZ CHENEY: “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this. Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.” (students applaud)

Former Vice President Dick Cheney also endorsed Kamala

Two days later, her father, former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, tweeted that he will also vote for Kamala Harris in the upcoming November election. Cheney served with Republican President  George W. Bush between 2000 and 2008. 

Meanwhile, George W. Bush has stated he will not be endorsing any candidate for the presidential race. In fact, Bush did not vote for either major candidate in the 2016 and 2020 elections, distancing himself from the Trump campaigns.

Colorado parents suing school district over dangerous transgender policy

Several Colorado parents are suing the Jefferson County School District after their children were allegedly forced into transgendered situations, reports Fox News. One 11-year-old girl had to share a bed with an 11-year-old boy who was pretending to be a girl.

Another young boy reports to have been assigned a female counselor pretending to be a man, sleeping in the boys’ cabin, and supervising boys’ showers.

The lawsuit submitted by Alliance Defending Freedom accuses the school district of not providing truthful information to parents concerning school-sponsored trips.

God’s Word reminds us that, “A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God.” (Deuteronomy 22:5)

Korean dog strollers outselling baby strollers

A South Korean online marketer, Gmarket, has pointed out that dog strollers are now outselling baby strollers.

The nation touts the lowest birth rate in the world — at 0.71 children per woman. 

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is married without children — and, according to one news source, owns at least 10 dogs and cats. 

Deuteronomy 28:15-18 reminds us of God’s judgment upon nations: "But it shall come to pass, if you do not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country. Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Cursed shall be the fruit of your body and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks.”

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