It’s Thursday, March 19th, A.D. 2026. 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 Jonathan Clark

Chine Communists continue to harass the church

China’s National People’s Congress passed the innocuously named “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress” last week.

The new law requires the enforcement of a strong sense of Chinese identity across society. This would continue China’s suppression of religious and ethnic minorities. It would also affect social organizations and churches.

International Christian Concern noted, “Christian home churches are an attempt to escape government scrutiny, but even they are often raided and their members arrested on charges of working against the interests of the state.”

China is ranked 17th on the Open Doors’ World Watch List of the most oppressive countries to be a Christian.

Trump postpones trip to meet with Chinese President

China will have to reschedule a meeting with the United States as the war in Iran continues.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will postpone his trip to Beijing. The trip was scheduled for the end of the month.

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping plan to discuss trade tariffs. The trade war between the two countries has been on pause since last October.

Commenting on the postponement, President Trump said, “Because of the [Iran] war, I want to be here. I have to be here.”

Israel killed Iran’s top security official on Monday

Israel killed Iran’s top security official, Ali Larijani, in a strike on Monday.

Larijani was likely running the country since U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Iran’s supreme leader last month. The recent war has lasted nearly three weeks so far.

President Trump told reporters yesterday that America’s involvement in the war may be ending soon.

Listen.

TRUMP: “We're not ready to leave yet, but we'll be leaving in the near future. We'll be leaving in pretty much the very near future. But, right now, they've been decimated from every standpoint. We've had great support from countries in the Middle East. Great support. But we've had essentially no support from NATO.”

Paul Ehrlich, father of population control, died

Paul Ehrlich, known as the father of population control, died last Friday at the age of 93.

The biology professor and population scientist wrote the 1968 book, The Population Bomb. Ehrlich falsely claimed population growth would cause widespread starvation. He promoted the murder of unborn babies and mass sterilization to stem the alleged tide of overpopulation.

His work inspired governments and organizations to push contraception, abortion, and sterilization on the world.

Hebrews 9:27 says, “It is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.”

Scotland Parliament votes against legalized assisted suicide

Scotland’s Parliament voted Tuesday against a bill to legalize assisted suicide.

The vote ends two years of national debate on the issue.

Alisdair Hungerford-Morgan, Chief Executive of Right To Life UK, said, “This is a great victory for the most vulnerable in our society. They deserve protection and care, not a pathway to suicide. If this legislation had passed, countless vulnerable people would have been pressured or coerced into ending their lives.”

Moody Bible victorious in religious liberty case

In the United States, a Christian college won its religious freedom case against the Chicago Board of Education.

Previously, the city’s public schools blocked The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago from participating in its student-teaching program. The college could only participate if it compromised its Christian hiring practices. The public schools backed down after the lawsuit.

Jeremiah Galus with Alliance Defending Freedom commented, “We’re hopeful other public officials will take note that they can’t inject themselves illegally and unconstitutionally into a religious non-profit’s hiring practices.”

YouVersion: No AI chatbots to answer theological questions

And finally, a leading digital Bible platform is not implementing artificial intelligence chatbots for answering theological questions.

The YouVersion Bible platform has over one billion downloads around the world.

YouVersion CEO Bobby Gruenewald told Christian Daily International that AI models are inaccurate. He said, “The best model with the best performance, with the most popular versions of the Bible that are most indexed, misquotes Scripture at least 15% of the time. Some of them as much as 60% of the time.”

Unlike chatbots, God’s Word is always accurate. Psalm 12:6 says, “The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of Earth, purified seven times.”

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