The World and Everything in It: December 28, 2023

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning! Persecution, political changes, and victories for religious liberty.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: We’ll talk about international stories from 20-23 with the heads of our Global Desk.

Plus, remembering notable lives in government, military, and politics this year…including feminist congresswoman Pat Schroeder.

AUDIO: The question was asked: “How can you be a mother and a congresswoman?” I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

And WORLD commentator Cal Thomas looks back to the year 1924 for lessons to guide us in 2024.

REICHARD: It’s Thursday, December 28th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

BROWN: And I’m Myrna Brown. Good morning!

REICHARD: Now the news. Here’s Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Washington border talks / Mexico meeting » The halls of the U.S. Capitol are mostly hollow with Congress on holiday recess. But some lawmakers in the Senate restarted talks Wednesday about dealing with the border crisis.

Republican Congressman Russel Fry says the ball is in the Biden administration’s court.

FRY: They were the ones from day one that suspended construction of the border wall, and eviscerated agreements between Guatemala, Honduras and other countries. They stopped the remain-in-Mexico policy.

Republicans say they’ll only approve funding for more Ukraine aid if or when President Biden agrees to major policy shifts at the border.

Meantime, top U.S. officials met in Mexico City Wednesday with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador. The Biden administration is pressing his government to help stem the flow of migrants.

They want Mexico to make it tougher for migrants to travel across Mexico to the U.S. border, among other things.

Sanctuary city mayors meet on migrant crisis » The Democratic mayors of several major cities held a meeting of their own on Wednesday about the border crisis, calling on Uncle Sam to step up.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams:

ADAMS: The federal government must take responsibility and lead on this humanitarian crisis, instead of leaving it to cities and localities to handle.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston says his city has recently had more migrant arrivals per capita than any other major city in America.

JOHNSTON: And that is not because there is a thoughtful or coordinated strategy to entry. It’s because we are the first big city north of El Paso.

More to the point, it is the closest large sanctuary city. Multiple Texas cities are closer. However, Texas law does not allow sanctuary cities.

Nonetheless, the state is bearing the brunt of the border crisis.  

Michigan Trump ballot ruling » The Michigan Supreme Court says Donald Trump will remain on the state’s 2024 primary ballot. WORLD’s Christina Grube has more.

CHRISTINA GRUBE: The court refused to hear an appeal by plaintiffs. And that effectively upholds a lower court ruling which turned away an effort to kick the former president off the ballots, citing the insurrection clause in the U.S. Constitution.

That mirrored similar efforts in other states to disqualify Trump from presidential ballots.

The decision comes just days after Colorado’s high court ruled that Trump should be removed from that state’s primary ballots.

The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to decide that case.

For WORLD, I’m Christina Grube.

Aid package for Ukraine » The U.S. government has announced what Defense Dept. officials say could be the final package of military aid to Ukraine until—or unless—Congress approves more funding.

The Pentagon is sending weapons and ammunition from its stockpiles, including missiles, artillery, and anti-armor systems. The package is valued at upwards of $250 million dollars.

But a spokesman says the Pentagon is out of money for Ukraine and needs more funding to replace the weapons taken from department stockpiles.

Tom Smothers obit » Tom Smothers has died. He was one half of the Smothers Brothers comedy duo that rose to fame in the 1960s. Tom heard here on the Judy Garland Show:

AUDIO: This song is a fun fact frothy number [SIC] the rugged men who worked the great flat boats up and down the treacherous Ohio River.

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour debuted on CBS in 1967 and was an instant hit.

Tom Smothers died of cancer at his home in California. He was 86 years old.

Travel today » Holiday travelers are expected to pack U.S. highways today as they wrap up Christmas vacations. WORLD’s Lauren Canterberry has more.

LAUREN CANTERBERRY: Triple-A estimates that well over 100 million people are hitting the road between Christmas and the new year. And today is expected to be among the busiest travel days.

Saturday is also expected to be hectic, as many travel for New Year’s Eve.

Airports across the country are still packed, and a powerful winter storm in the Midwest and rain in the Northeast are likely to cause delays.

For WORLD, I’m Lauren Canterberry.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Important international stories from 2023 that flew under the radar. Plus, remembering significant leaders who died this year.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Thursday the 28th of December, 2023.

So thankful you’ve joined us for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

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Well, first up on The World and Everything in It: World Tour, year in review.

This year, wars and natural disasters dominated international news. In February, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey. Over the summer, the war in Ukraine continued and in October, Hamas’s attack on Israel triggered an ongoing war.

But there’s more to the story, and joining us now to talk about other headlines from the year are Global Desk Chief Jenny Lind Schmitt and Deputy Chief Onize Ohikere.

BROWN: Jenny and Onize, good morning!

JENNY LIND SCHMITT, REPORTER: Good morning!

ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER: Thanks for having us!

BROWN: Well, what are some stories you’ve been following that may not have made the top story lists at other news organizations this year?

SCHMITT: Well first off, as Christians who are concerned about the freedom of Christians around the world, one of the issues we really follow hard, especially Onize, is persecution and the countries where that is a real problem.

OHIKERE: Yeah, so starting with one ongoing case that we're actually still following is the story of Rhoda Jatau. She's a Nigerian Christian mother of five, so backing up a bit to get the context of her story. Last year a Nigerian mob lynched Deborah Samuel Emmanuel, she was a Christian student in the Muslim majority Sokoto state. So Jatau allegedly shared a video about Deborah’s case on a WhatsApp group. And now she's facing blasphemy charges for that singular action. Jatau spent 19 months in prison, but her case received renewed local and even international attention last month, and that was because a High Court in the Muslim majority Bauchi state refused to dismiss her case. But then the court finally caved and released her own bail. But it's also helpful to keep the backdrop of religious freedom in Nigeria in mind. Christians across the north, and even in some central states continue to face attacks from Islamist insurgents, armed herdsmen and criminal groups.

BROWN: Yeah Onize that-that's great news about Jatau being released. But is that going to be the end of the story, you think?

OHIKERE: Unfortunately, no. I spoke with Sean Nelson from Alliance Defending Freedom International about her case. So he welcomed her unexpected bail and just the blessing to spend Christmas and New Year’s with her family. But he also emphasized that it doesn’t mark the end of her case.

NELSON: We’ll see what happens with the upcoming hearings. We'll see if the charges get-get dropped eventually. I'm hopeful and praying that they do. I hope everybody prays that they do and remembers the injustice that's been done.

REICHARD: A story worth keeping an eye on for sure. Jenny, what encouraging stories are you watching related to Christians in other parts of the world?

SCHMITT: Well, first off, I think we should acknowledge that God grows His church even under really difficult circumstances—and sometimes especially under difficult circumstances. And something that I kept coming upon this year were stories that can’t really be told yet because of safety issues, but where God is completely in action. I had the privilege of meeting a courageous couple who are working to evangelize the Fulani tribe, and that’s the tribe where some members have been attacking Christians in northern Nigeria that we’ve been hearing about in the news and Onize has told us. But they’re there working at the heart of the problem, and their story can’t be told yet, but we can certainly pray for them and we should be praying for them. And we need to be praying for others like them, like leaders I heard about in North Africa and Central Asian countries where the church leaders continue worshiping and preaching the gospel despite the laws that are forbidding that. So I think that's something to keep in mind as we hear these stories.

And then another really hugely positive development here in Europe was the acquittal of Päivi Räsänen. Räsänen is a medical doctor, she’s a member of Finland’s parliament, and she was a former Minister of the Interior. And she’s also a professing Christian and believes in the Biblical view of marriage and sexuality. And because of that, she was accused in 2019 of inciting hatred with statements that she had made on Twitter and on a radio program several years previous to that time. And in 2022, she was acquitted of all charges. But then earlier this year, the prosecutor appealed that verdict. So there was a new hearing this fall, and the her—the verdict, and that came out in mid-November. And again, Räsänen and her pastor were both cleared of all charges.

Here is Räsänen after her acquittal:

RASANEN: In a free society, faith is not meant to be kept hidden behind closed doors, and this is what happens in dictatorships, not democracies.

This is a huge win for freedom of speech in Europe and sets a very good precedent for freedom of speech and freedom of religion around the world.

But still, there-there's a possibility of another appeal. But she says that she is willing to go all the way to the European High Court of Human Rights and even if if her case isn’t appealed there will be other ones and this fight for freedom of religion is going to continue.

BROWN: Yeah so—wow, just hearing that lots of places where we can certainly praise and give thanks to God but also many places where we can continue to support our brothers and sisters in prayer so we will do that. Let's talk now about the political situation what kinds of trends do you see there and-and Jenny you've-you've seen some interesting election results recently in Europe, haven't you?

SCHMITT: Yeah, we really have. Overall the trend in Europe has been to continue this movement to the right. And just to jog memories in 2022, the conservative parties had a really big win in Sweden, in Italy, and also big gains in France. And then in 2023, we saw three European countries where conservative parties won national elections.

In April, Finland, conservative parties won control of the government. In July in Spain, conservatives won the national elections, but they did fall short of the absolute majority. And were and so they weren't able to form a government outright.

And then in the Netherlands in November, there was a huge upset with Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party winning, and there mainly voters were frustrated with unchecked immigration and EU policies. And so I think that the point is, we're seeing in those countries there's a sense with rising inflation and strains on social systems that-that people in European countries are just-are just fed up. They don't like where the EU is headed, whether it's social policy, economic policy, and they want to send a really strong message.

BROWN: So much going on. Let’s move now back to you Onize, turning to your continent, there’s been movement of a different kind there, right?

Indeed, we also had some elections here, in Nigeria here, in Liberia, and this month in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But one ongoing trend we continue to follow this year is the democratic backsliding in some countries. In July some mutinous soldiers from Niger’s presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum. And then the next month, soldiers in Gabon put the just-reelected President Ali Bongo Demba under house arrest. There were some other attempted coups that didn't exactly pan out as planned, at least for the coup leaders. Authorities in Guinea-Bissau and Burkina Faso detained suspects too after similar attempts to grab power.

BROWN: Okay, what other issues should we be watching going into 2024, guys?

SCHMITT: Well, here in Europe there, there's an ongoing push for legalization of assisted suicide. And we really want to watch that. Currently, there's 46 member nations of the Council of Europe, but only six have legally assisted suicide. But that's becoming a big debate in several countries like France and Hungary and also at the Europe-wide level. The good news in that bad news is that there-there is a push back and there are now sadly, there are case studies to point to, for example, in Belgium, in particular of where the vagueness of a euthanasia law has led to uncertainties about what has happened in instances of doctor-assisted suicide and very sadly now there are-there's evidence of cases of abuse of the law where persons were euthanized possibly against their wishes. So those who are advocating for life have some ammunition to fight with but it's still a huge battle legally but even more importantly in the minds of of the citizens.

BROWN: Onize, how about you…what stories will you be watching going into 2024?

OHIKERE: We've still got eyes on the what I would call the anti-democratic situation in Hong Kong. Crack-down there has really only worsened each year for pro-democracy groups, especially since the Beijing imposed controversial National Security Law. One ongoing case we've followed especially in recent weeks is that of Jimmy Lai. He's an activist who's currently facing multiple charges, I mean, including colluding with foreign forces. We're also still watching to see how the international bounties that Hong Kong announced this year on activists abroad will play out in the coming year.

BROWN: Onize, Jenny, you know just hearing you talk about all of these things, conflict, things that are are happening just makes me so thankful that you two are doing the good work that you're doing there. As we wrap up here, what were some highlights of the year for the global desk?

SCHMITT: Well, for one thing, we officially organized our international reporting into the global desk. We also held the Second World Journalism Institute in Europe. And that was held in Brussels, Belgium, yeah, this this past summer.

And then lastly, we got into covering Latin America on a regular basis. Javier Bolaños helped teach our first WJI en Espanol, in Spanish, in Asheville, North Carolina, and he's a journalist in Costa Rica. If you've been listening regularly, you've heard his voice as he's helped us cover stories like Hurricane Otis that hit Acapulco, Mexico in October and then he's also reported on the big elections in Guatemala and Argentina so you'll be hearing more from him. That's a big part of the world that we really have been wanting to do a better job covering. So it's been an exciting year for us.

BROWN: Right—definitely exciting and I love hearing Javier’s voice, a new voice on WORLD, so we-we’re grateful for that. Well, Jenny Lind Schmitt and Onize Ohikere lead the Global Desk for WORLD and you can keep up with our coverage in the World Tour Newsletter. We've included a link in today's show notes. And also in the current issue of World Magazine. We've got a rundown on international news from all of 2023. So you may want to have a look at that.

Well, Jenny and Onize you play an important part in helping us cover the world and everything in it, for real [laughter]. So thank you for your work this year, and all the best in the year to come to you both

OHIKERE: Thank you!

SCHMITT: Thank you, Myrna.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: The familiar sound of a bell ringer for the Salvation Army. And for Marilyn Fritz, not something she’d ever thought of doing:

FRITZ: I have never rang before, so I would not have rang had it not been an item on my daughter's bucket list. It just never crossed my mind.

A bucket list that her daughter Megan didn’t have time to do. She died young of cancer treatment complications.

Marilyn came across her daughter’s bucket list while going through Megan’s personal belongings:

FRITZ: When I'm dying, I want to be able to say, I traveled the world, helped people, made a difference to those truly less fortunate. Lived and loved every moment, loved and was loved. Did what everyone else only dreams of.

A list full of ordinary and extraordinary things. Number 68? Be a bell ringer.

FRITZ: I decided 2023 was the year I can do this and I'd already shed enough tears and I thought I've got to get busy and put myself out there.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: A good challenge for each of us!

REICHARD: It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, December 28th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

Up next, remembering the lives of those who died this year from the realms of government and military.

We’ve already reported on the legacies of leaders like California Senator Dianne Feinstein, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. But today, we remember other influential people.

BROWN: Here’s WORLD Radio intern, Emma Perley.

EMMA PERLEY: We begin today with two WWII resistance fighters. Marcelle Engelen was 17 years old when she joined the French Resistance in 1943.

AUDIO: [WW2 sounds in France] 

She and five other women at the escape network helped prisoners of war flee from Nazi Germany. They called themselves “Équipe Pur Sang,” meaning “Team of Thoroughbreds.” And their efforts helped 350 people escape into free France. In the winter of 1942, the Thoroughbreds were all arrested except Engelen, but were eventually released.

After the war, Engelen rarely spoke of her participation in the Resistance. She died on January 7th at the age of 99, the last surviving member of the Thoroughbreds.

Just a few days later on January 9th, another resistance fighter passed away. Adolfo Kaminsky was 97. Audio here from New York Times documentary, The Forger.

ADOLFO  (in French): During my life, I helped thousands of people cross borders. If I was caught, I would have been imprisoned and killed. On every document rests the life or death of a human being. So I worked, worked, worked until I passed out.

A poor Jewish teenager with little education, Adolfo’s work with chemical dyes at a clothing store in Paris led him to learn forgery. He joined the Resistance and became a prolific identity document and passport forger. He saved over 14,000 Jews from the Holocaust. After World War II ended, Adolfo continued to forge papers and identity documents for refugees in Latin America, Africa, and Portugal.

Next, we remember a baby found in a dumpster in Illinois in 1995. Audio here from ABC7 News. 

MORGAN: A construction worker that was doing work on the hospital was throwing away the last of the debris and ended up finding me.

The baby’s story made national headlines, and she was nicknamed “Baby Mary Grace.” Her eventual adoptive parents named her Morgan Hill. In 2001, Illinois passed a Safe Haven law which allowed parents to give up their babies safely and anonymously. Here is Hill’s adoptive mother in a 2019 interview with NBC Chicago.

AUDIO: It was because of her, and her story, that’s why Illinois passed the Safe Haven Law.

Hill made it her mission to advocate for Safe Haven laws in other states. She died unexpectedly in February at age 27 due to complications with epilepsy.

Also in February, the first—and so far only—female speaker of Britain’s House of Commons died at age 93. Audio courtesy of Guardian News.

AUDIO: Much has been written recently about the possibility of having a woman speaker for the first time. I say to you, elect me for what I am, and not for what I was born.

In 1992, Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of the House of Commons after several years in Parliament. She directed debates and had firm control over chaotic Parliament sessions.

AUDIO:  Order! Order! Members must come to order. Mr. Blair … This is so time consuming. Spit it out!

Boothroyd resigned in 2000 but remained active in politics behind the scenes.

AUDIO: I just felt I just gotta do this job to the best of my ability … And I wanted to do it right and I wanted to do it right for womankind.

Another trailblazing female politician died this year. Pat Schroeder was one of only 14 women on Capitol Hill when she arrived as a Colorado Representative in 1972. During her 24 years in Congress, Schroeder helped pass laws against the discrimination of pregnant women in the workplace. Schroeder spoke with C-SPAN of her congressional run in 1972.

PAT SCHROEDER: It was very frustrating. When I announced for Congress, the newspaper said, "Denver Housewife Runs For Congress." I mean, they didn't even put my name in.

She was a Harvard-trained lawyer, in addition to being a wife and mother. Audio here from Schroeder’s interview with MAKERS in 2014.

SCHROEDER: The question was asked: ‘How can you be a mother and a congresswoman?’ I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

Schroeder died from stroke complications on March 14th, at 82 years old.

Next, we remember the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials. Here he is during a 2005 interview with the U.S. Holocaust Museum.

BENJAMIN FERENCZ: My name is Benjamin Ferencz, and I arrived in Nuremberg for the first time during the war because I was a soldier in General Patton’s army.

Though a short man at 5 foot 2, Ben Ferencz commanded a lofty position as investigator and Harvard-trained prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials in 1947. In the first trial he used the Nazi’s own documents against the 22 defendants.

FERENCZ: I created an indisputable record of mass murder, later termed genocide, on a scale never before seen in human history …

The trial only took two days.

FERENCZ: I convicted all of them, 13 of them were sentenced to death, including six SS generals, which wasn’t a bad start for a first case.

Afterwards, Ferencz stayed in Nuremberg with his wife Gertrude to care for victims of Nazi persecution. He died peacefully in his sleep on April 7th at 103 years old.

Next, conservative politician and former U.S. senator James L. Buckley. Buckley is one of very few people to serve in the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of the government. Here he is after winning a Senate election in New York in 1970. Audio from CBS.

AUDIO: It has been a genuine coalition of the people to reach out and take this great state and push it in a new direction and telegraph across the country that the American people want a new course, they want a new politics. And I am the voice for that new politics.

Buckley is perhaps best remembered for the Supreme Court case, Buckley v. Valeo. The case determined that no limits could be placed on political campaign spending in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Buckley died on August 18th at 100.

And finally, we remember former New York Police Department commissioner Howard Safir. Safir served from 1996 to 2000 and is credited with decreasing crime rates to historic lows. Here he is in a 1996 interview with CUNY TV.

AUDIO: It’s not the number of cops you have, it’s what you do with them. And what we’re doing is, we’re using them effectively.

Safir is remembered for the motto: Courtesy, Professionalism, & Respect, which is still emblazoned on every New York City police vehicle today.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Emma Perley.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Thursday, December 28th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Up next: WORLD commentator Cal Thomas skips predictions for 2024 and instead looks back in time for lessons from history.

CAL THOMAS, COMMENTATOR: At the end of every year, we hear predictions about the future, many of which have been proven wrong. Predictions the world will end on such and such a date for example. All wrong. Forecasts about how we would be living life today. Wrong again.

If we look back a hundred years ago, the ’20s are roaring and President Calvin Coolidge does things the current president and Congress would do well to emulate. Coolidge wins a landslide victory running on a platform of limited government, reduced taxes, and less regulation. He follows through on all three, creating an economic boom.

In 1924, Coolidge also signs an immigration law that regulates the number of foreigners who could come to America—especially those from Asian countries. Yes, racism played a role, but so does international politics. And Coolidge himself promotes the idea that immigrants who learn English and contribute to the country are truly American.

A lot happens in 1924.

Vladimir Lenin dies at age 53 after a number of strokes. The communist leader’s body is embalmed and put on display in Red Square for public viewing. It’s still there…though in our day, Lenin’s authoritarian beliefs seem reincarnated in Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch. He is released after just nine months, but uses his time while incarcerated to write Mein Kampf, which, among other things, describes how he became anti-Semitic. His poison still infects us.

J. Edgar Hoover is named head of the FBI.

George H.W. Bush is born in Milton, Massachusetts. Woodrow Wilson dies. Jimmy Carter is born in Plains, Georgia. Actor Marlon Brando, who would change the way many actors performed, is born in Omaha, Nebraska. Also born this year are American writers James Baldwin and Truman Capote.

The comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” debuts in the New York Daily News. In 1977 it would become a hit musical on Broadway and later a movie.

The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held in New York.

In sports news, future Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry is born, and the Washington Senators win their first World Series. It will be 95 years until they win another one under a different name, the Washington Nationals.

Carol Taylor patents the ice cream cone rolling machine. Yum. And at the end of 1924, Judy Garland makes her acting debut as a 2-½-year-old.

As with any other year, 1924 contained the good, the bad and the ugly, but it also contained lessons we should learn. May those good lessons lead us to a happier, peaceful and prosperous 2024.

Happy New Year!

I’m Cal Thomas.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Tomorrow: looking back on big stories this year on Culture Friday with John Stonestreet. And, notable lives in media and culture that came to an end in 2023. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Mary Reichard.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

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