It’s Tuesday, September 9th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)

By Kevin Swanson

Nigerian Muslims kill and injure Christian farmers

On August 27th, when five Nigerian Christians went to check on their farms  located in Bauchi State, they found Fulani Muslim herdsmen grazing their cattle on the land owned by the Christians.  The argument led to the Muslims killing a Christian farmer and wounding three others, reports Morning Star News.

Rev. Samson Habila, local chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, said, “We solicit that we all go on our knees for prayers to our loving God to bring this conflict to a swift end for the betterment of our land and people.”

In a separate incident on the same day, Muslim herdsmen assaulted two Christian women and a teenager who were on their way back from their farm. Naomi Sabo, was cut on her hand with a machete, her teenage son was cut with a machete, and a third victim, another Christian woman, had her ear cut off by the Muslims.

In a span of two weeks in late August, hundreds of Nigerian Christian farmers lost their crops to Muslim Fulani herdsmen who took their cattle to graze on them.

According to Open Doors’ 2025 World Watch List, Nigeria is the 7th most dangerous country on Earth for Christians. Of the 4,476 Christians killed for their faith worldwide during the reporting period, 3,100 of those Christians -- or 69% -- lived in Nigeria.

Russia launched 800 drones against Ukraine

Russia has stepped up its drone attacks on Ukraine, in its largest salvo since the beginning of the war, reports KGOU Radio.

The aggressor launched 800 drones over the weekend — hitting the government building in Kyiv for the first time.

Japanese Prime Minister resigns Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has announced his resignation.  

Japan’s economy is still hurting. The nation’s real Gross Domestic Product is just now recovering to 2019 levels, after an extended 5-year recession.

Japan’s national debt is the highest in the world, at 255% of GDP.  

The Japanese government’s proposed budget for 2026 represents another 8% increase, year over year.  Indeed, 27% of the budget is set aside just to service the nation’s debt.

G7 vs BRICS

The Group of 7 or “G7” nations includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 

BRICS is now recognized as the competing force opposing the G7 nations. BRICS includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates.

In a BRICS summit, spearheaded by Brazil’s socialist president, Luiz Lula, the mostly southern and eastern world powers worked on what they called “joint responses to tariffs and sanctions under the Trump administration and discussions on a multipolar world order.”

Thousands of Brazilian protestors object to trial of Jair Bolsonaro

Tens of thousands of Brazilians have taken the streets over in the last week, protesting the trial of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, reports the Associated Press.

He is facing 46 years in prison for allegedly supporting an attempt to overturn the 2022 election. Plus, Bolsonaro’s opponents also claim that he encouraged a protest on January 8, 2023 that resulted in several millions of dollars of damage to the capital building.

Brazil’s Supreme Court is expecting to sentence the former president later this week.

Bolsonaro was a pro-life president, and opposed homosexual marriage for his country. The current president, Luiz Lula, has committed himself to the pro-abortion and LGBTQ agenda for the nation since his election in 2022.

47% of Brazilians receive welfare

In a related story, 47% of Brazilians receive a welfare check from the government.

The most welfare dependent states are in the north and northeast of the country. These twelve states record more welfare recipients than jobs among their residents.

The socialist candidate in the last election, Lula de Silva, won 10 out of 12 of these states. He only won the votes with three other states in the election. God is sovereign over all. Jesus told Pontius Pilate, “You would have no authority over Me at all unless it had been given you from above.”

Company that profits from porn fined $5 million

The Canadian company Aylo has been fined $5 million by the US Federal Trade Commission for portraying certain egregious forms of sexual sin on its websites (which include PornHub).  

This amounts to a slap on the wrist for a company operating on an estimated $700 million of annual income. That’s about 0.7%.

The Federal Trade Commission has charged the company with allowing non-consensual and child-abuse related material on its websites.

Democrats blocking all Trump's civilian nominees

The U.S. government has come to loggerheads.

Thus far, not a single Trump civilian nominee has been confirmed by a voice vote through the US Senate — due to Democrat filibusters. That’s the first time this has occurred in the nation’s government in a century.

That compares to 65% of Trump’s nominees clearing the Senate by voice vote in his first term and 57% of Joe Biden’s nominees confirmed by voice vote.  

GOP Senate Majority Leader John Thune is considering pulling the nuclear option, or a rule change, to speed up the approval process, according to the Daily Caller.

Few Americans, Christians included, believe we are sinful American Christians are pretty much agreed on this statement: “Sin is real, but people are basically good at heart.” That according to the latest George Barna survey.

The pollsters discovered that 82% of Catholics and 70% of self-identified born-again Christians believe in “The basic goodness of humanity.”

And only 57% of Catholics and 85% of self-identified born again Christians believe Romans 3:23 — that “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” 

Meryl Streep to voice Aslan in new “Chronicles of Narnia”

And finally, Netflix plans to release the next movie installment of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia story in November of 2026.

Filming began last month which included a well-publicized street chase of Jadis, “the White Witch” last weekend.

Brace yourself.

Greta Gerwig, best known for directing the feminist hit film “Barbie” released in 2023, is directing this next Narnia release. Not surprisingly, Meryl Streep is slated to voice Aslan.  (The character of Aslan, Lewis’s Lion, is meant as a personification of Jesus Christ).

Movieguide, the Christian ministry led by founder Ted Baehr, calls this “a dangerous cultural shift,” and has initiated a petition to "respect the theological foundation of the story.”

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