It’s Wednesday, September 11th, 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 Jonathan Clark and Adam McManus

13 Christian prisoners released in Nicaragua

Praise God! Thirteen Christians are out of prison after facing arrest in Nicaragua last December.

Authorities in the Central American country falsely charged them with money laundering, sentenced them to prison for up to 15 years, and fined them nearly $1 billion. 

The 13 individuals were pastors and attorneys affiliated with Mountain Gateway, a Christian ministry based out of Texas. They faced arrest right after holding a large evangelistic event. 

The ministry said, “This is the day we have prayed and believed God for. These pastors and attorneys have suffered greatly for the sake of the Gospel, but it has not been in vain. The Kingdom of God is advancing because of their persecution.” 

Isaiah 61:1 says, “He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.”

First moments of the 9/11 Muslim terrorist attacks

Twenty-three years ago today, at 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2001, Dick Oliver, a reporter for Good Day New York on WNYW-TV, uttered these shocking words on live television as he talked to the anchor, Jim Ryan.

OLIVER: “Jim, just a few moments ago, something, believed to be a plane, crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. I just saw flames inside. You can see the smoke coming out of the, of the tower. We have no idea of what it was. I was a tremendous boom just a few moments ago. You can hear around me emergency vehicles heading towards the scene. Now, this could have been an aircraft or it could have been something internal. It appears to be something coming from the outside due to the nature of the opening on about the 100th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center.”

Minutes later, Dick Oliver observed this.

OLIVER: “Now, the smoke coming out of the opening appears to be black smoke. This would indicate things that are burning inside. We have no idea of what happened. But we did hear what sounded like, sounded like an aircraft, and then, a tremendous boom. Now, I don't know whether we can confirm that that was an aircraft or not.”

And then, for the first time, Fox 5 anchor Jim Ryan cited the 1993 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

RYAN: “One’s memory has to go back to another terrorist attack -- one would hope it is not this time, but if it were a plane that crashed into the side of the building -- you would imagine that there would be something on the ground that would be visible.”

OLIVER:  “That’s true, Jim. I cannot see the ground from here. You recall back in, I believe, it was 1945 when a U.S. Air Force plane crashed into the, about the 80th floor of the Empire State Building during a foggy night. The skies here, as you can see, are perfectly clear. So, I'm starting to lean to the idea that perhaps, whatever happened here, came from the inside of the World Trade Center.”

RYAN: “Something has either crashed into the World Trade Center. (Pause) Ah. If it. (Pause) We’re, we’re, I'm just told that Metro traffic is reporting that it was indeed a plane crash. If that's the case, ‘Where's the plane?’ I would ask. I don't see it in that live picture there. One's thoughts, obviously, go back to a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center that created havoc there back in the early 90s.”

On September 11, 2001, 19 Muslim terrorists hijacked four airplanes, two of which they flew into the World Trade Center towers. A third plane hit the Pentagon, which headquarters the Department of Defense, and the fourth, United Airlines Flight 93, which was likely destined to take out the Capitol, was downed in Pennsylvania by brave Americans who fought back.

All told, 2,996 Americans perished along with all 19 Muslim al-Qaeda terrorists.

Harris on the offensive in first debate with Trump

Last night, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris met for the first time for the much-anticipated presidential debate hosted by ABC News in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reports The Epoch Times.

To her credit, Harris walked over to Trump’s podium with an outstretched hand.  Trump shook her hand.

HARRIS: “Kamala Harris. Let’s have a good debate.”

TRUMP: “Nice to see you. Let’s have fun.”

HARRIS: “Thank you.”

TRUMP: “Thank you.”

From the very beginning, Kamala went on the offense and retained the upper hand throughout, often appealing directly to the millions of American viewers for their vote by looking into the camera.

Here is one representative exchange between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, reports RealClearPolitics.com.

HARRIS:  “I actually have the endorsement of 200 Republicans who have formally worked with President Bush, Mitt Romney and John McCain, including the endorsement of former Vice President Dick Cheney and Congressmember Liz Cheney.

“If you want to really know the inside track on who the former president is, if he didn't make it clear already, just ask people who have worked with him. His former Chief of Staff, a four-star General, has said he has contempt for the Constitution of the United States. His former National Security Adviser has said he is dangerous and unfit. His former Secretary of Defense has said the nation, the Republic, would never survive another Trump term.

“When we listen to this kind of rhetoric, when the issues that affect the American people are not being addressed, I think the choice is clear in this election.

DAVID MUIR: “President Trump, I'll give you a quick minute to respond.”

TRUMP: “Thank you, because when I hear that, see, I'm a different kind of a person. I fired most of those people, not so graciously. They did bad things or a bad job. I fired them. They never fired one person.

“They didn't fire anybody having to do with Afghanistan and the Taliban and the 13 people whose were just killed, viciously and violently killed. And I got to know the parents and the family. They didn't fire. They should have fired all those generals, all those top people, because that was one of the most incompetently handled situations anybody has ever seen.

“So, when somebody does a bad job, I fire him. And you take a guy like [Secretary of Defense Mark] Esper, he was no good. I fired him. So, he writes a book. Another one writes a book. They have done such a poor job and they never fire anybody. Look at the economy. Look, look at the inflation. They didn't fire any of their economists. They have the same people. That's a g