It’s Monday, April 27th, 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 Adam McManus

Preacher found dead in Russian prison

A blogger and preacher, known to the internet as Vegan Christ-Lover of God, died this month while in Russian custody. Khristolyub Bozhiy ran a blog and YouTube channel where he spoke about religion, veganism, and his advocacy of peace related to Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine, reports International Christian Concern.

The 43-year-old blogger described himself as a Christian activist, pacifist, and preacher who spoke against Islam

Russian officials began their investigations in November 2023. In February 2025, a regional court sentenced Bozhiy to three years in a colony-settlement for offending Muslims,

In early April, Bozhiy was moved to a pre-trial detention center and was immediately placed in an isolated cell. Earlier this month, he reported, “I was given five days in solitary as soon as I arrived. Then another 15, for nothing at all.”

On April 17th, Bozhiy’s father learned that his son had died, but was not told the cause of his death until he was summoned to collect his son’s body on April 20th. That day, when he arrived at the investigator’s office, he was told that his son had been found hanging in an isolated cell. Bozhiy’s relatives do not believe his death was a suicide.

In his final protest, Bozhiy held a sign that read, “Jesus commanded to love enemies, not to kill, for God is love. Murderers do not inherit the Kingdom of God.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu treated for prostate cancer

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed that he recently underwent treatment for prostate cancer, and kept it quiet for fear that it would be used by Iran for propaganda, reports One America News.

He had three core messages to share with the public:

“Thank God, I am healthy.”
“I am in excellent physical condition.”
“I had a minor medical issue with my prostate that was completely treated. Thank God, it’s behind me.”

3 John 2:2 says, “Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.”

9 in 10 British Evangelicals prepared to share faith with atheists

Only 2% of evangelical British Christians have faced ‘sanctions’ for talking about their Christian faith at work, while 4% feel they have missed out on the chance of a promotion or other better job opportunities because of their Christian faith, reports Evangelical Focus.

A survey commissioned by the Evangelical Alliance United Kingdom shows that most Evangelicals have a positive experience in their workplace.

Although one in ten say they have received criticism in the United Kingdom for talking about their Christian faith and just over two in ten are “hesitant to talk about my Christian faith”, 40% of believers say that their Christian faith has “positively helped me in my workplace.”

Almost 9 in 10 Evangelicals feel “equipped” to share their faith with atheists (86%) compared to 14% who do not. The response is virtually the same when asked about conversations with agnostics.

And two-thirds of Evangelical respondents feel prepared to discuss their faith with Muslims (67%) and 79% with Jews.

1 Peter 3:15 says, “Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.”

Trump’s fiscal folly

On April 3rd, President Trump released his proposed Fiscal 2027 Budget. Strikingly, Trump proposed to increase defense spending by over 40% and cut non-defense discretionary spending by about 10%, reports Fortune Magazine.

Yet, even after slashing everything from environmental protection and scientific research to housing and small-business support, government spending will surge, the deficit will balloon, and the ratio of debt held by the public to the Gross Domestic Product will climb to peacetime highs and remain above 100%.

Overall, the Trump administration’s proposed budget is an extension of what has become, particularly during the last three administrations, fiscal folly.

Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, wrote, “A significant chunk of today’s government expenditures are financed by putting future generations in bondage and saddling them with the costs. This is irresponsible, inequitable, and immoral. Fiscal deficits are nothing more than deferred taxes that will be paid by those who aren’t even voting today, as well as many who are yet to be born.”

Public school allows profane anti-ICE protest, suspends pro-ICE student

On February 6, hundreds of students at Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, California peacefully staged a mid-school-day walkout to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They held posters that read “ICE is KKK spelled differently” as well as others with profane language.

Yet, two weeks later, Torrey Pines High School suspended a student for posting pro-ICE flyers reading, “We love I.C.E. – Real Americans.” The school claimed the flyers, which caused no disruption at the school — and were displayed in a common area where other students have posted political material — nevertheless constituted “harassment” and “intimidation.”

After intervention by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a California school district expunged its suspension of a high school junior for putting up a pro-ICE poster.

Senior Attorney Conor Fitzpatrick said, “School administrators can’t pick and choose which opinions students are allowed to express. Voicing an opinion which makes others upset is not ‘harassment’ or ‘intimidation,’ it is American democracy in action.”

Which U.S. president had 15 children?

And finally, in 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States.

Since then, 44 other men have served as Commander-in-Chief, each leaving a political legacy to be analyzed and judged in the course of time. But their legacies are not only political — they’re also familial,