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It’s Thursday, May 29th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. ([email protected])

By Jonathan Clark

Christianity growing in Asia despite persecution

International Christian Concern reports that Christianity is growing in Asia despite severe persecution.

In 2024, there were 415 million Christians in Asia, making up 8% of the continent’s population. That’s up from 3% in 2010. Since 2020, Christianity’s growth rate in Asia has been 1.6% per year.

The church is growing in Communist, Buddhist, and Islam-dominated countries like China, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Myanmar.

All this growth continues despite persecution in the from of harassment, anti-conversion laws, restrictions on Bibles, arrests, imprisonments, and even violence and murder.

In 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, the Apostle Paul wrote, “We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed . … persecuted, but not forsaken … always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.”

50% of kids in United Kingdom do not live with both biological parents

Research from the Marriage Foundation found that nearly half of children in the United Kingdom do not live with both of their biological parents.

The report showed a record 45% of teenagers are not living with both parents by the age of 14.

This trend is not driven by divorce which is at its lowest level since 1970. Instead, family breakdown is driven by a collapse in marriage rates.

Harry Benson, the Research Director for the Marriage Foundation, said, “The level of family breakdown in the UK is at epidemic proportions and is set to get worse.”

French House voted to legalize assisted suicide

France’s National Assembly voted in favor of a bill to legalize assisted suicide on Tuesday.

The measure allows adult patients with painful and incurable illness to take a lethal substance.

The bill must also pass in France’s Senate.

Matt Vallière, the Executive Director of the Patients’ Rights Action Fund, warned, “The French National Assembly cast a fateful and terrible vote that will put a great many at risk of deadly harm and discrimination under an unprecedented euthanasia regime.”

Proverbs 12:10 says, “The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”

Supremes declines case of Christian kid’s t-shirt affirming 2 genders

In the United States, the Supreme Court declined to hear a free speech case Tuesday.

The case involves a Massachusetts public school student named Liam Morrison. In 2023, he wore a T-shirt to class that said, “There are only 2 genders.” In response, the school banned him from wearing the shirt. The Morrison family challenged the decision; however, the courts ruled against them.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito authored a dissenting opinion to the court’s decision to not hear the case. He said the free speech case “presents an issue of great importance for our Nation’s youth.”

Listen to viral comments from Liam, the boy at the epicenter. He made them before his school board.

MORRISON: “What did my shirt say? Five simple words. ‘There are only two genders.’ Nothing harmful, nothing threatening. Just a statement I believe to be a fact.

“I have been told that my shirt was targeting a protected class. Who is this protected class? Are their feelings more important than my rights? …

“Not one person, staff or student, told me that they were bothered by what I was wearing. Actually, just the opposite. Several kids told me that they supported my actions and that they wanted one too.”

Defense Secretary Hegseth affirms homeschooling for military families

Earlier this month, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the department to review how well it supports homeschooling for military families.

The directive follows an executive order from President Donald Trump on supporting school choice in the military.

Hegseth wrote, “Homeschooling offers an individualized approach for students and highlights the significant role parents play in the educational process.”

Liberal Presbyterian Church (USA) keeps losing members

The Presbyterian Church (USA) lost nearly 50,000 members last year according to its latest report.

The liberal denomination has been losing a similar number of members each year since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Their unbiblical stands have cemented their own demise. In 2014, it voted to allow pastors to marry two homosexual men or two lesbians. Plus, PC(USA) contends that there should be no laws restricting abortion.

At its current rate of decline, the PC(USA) will likely fall below one million members this year.

Protestors harass Christians promoting Biblically-defined family, sexuality

And finally, MayDay USA held a prayer event in Seattle, Washington last Saturday.

The group gathers Christians to seek God, proclaim the Gospel, and promote the “sacredness of gender and family as defined by God.”

In response, violent rioters, including Antifa members, showed up to harass the Christians. This ended in police making over 20 arrests.

Sadly, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell blamed the Christians for the violence.

In response, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino announced, “We have asked our team to fully investigate allegations of targeted violence against religious groups at the Seattle concert. Freedom of religion isn’t a suggestion.”

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