The World and Everything in It: February 15, 2023

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley announced she’s running for president.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today we’ll learn a little about her background and what her announcement means for the Republican Party. That’s ahead on Washington Wednesday.

Also a run-down of the week’s international news on World Tour.

Plus, planting churches in distressed communities.

And WORLD Contributor Ryan Bomberger counters a cultural misunderstanding regarding pregnancy.

BROWN: It’s Wednesday, February 15th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, Kristen Flavin with today’s news.

KRISTEN FLAVIN, NEWS ANCHOR: Balloon/objects latest » Senators say they still have questions about unknown objects in U.S. skies, even after a classified briefing on Tuesday.

U.S. officials say three of the objects shot down last week over North America posed less of a threat than the Chinese spy balloon, which floated over the United States earlier this month.

Senator Marco Rubio:

RUBIO: If it's not a danger, then why they'd shoot these things down? There is a reason why we restrict who can fly where and when so things don't crash into each other. If we have things flying over our airspace, that is not ours, did not coordinate with us, it doesn't belong to us. That is the definition of danger

The incidents have sparked internet rumors about government conspiracies and lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to set the record straight.

Senator James Risch:

RISCH: It’s really important that the nation hear from the president of the United States on this and just as importantly, the world should hear from the president on this.

Biden has ordered National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to form an interagency team to study so-called unidentified aerial objects that pose safety or security risks.

Milley on Ukraine » Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley sounded off Tuesday on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine following a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels.

MILLEY: While Russia has waged this war for far too long, they will not outlast the Ukrainian people, nor the allies and partners that met today.

Milley added that Russia is paying a heavy price on the battlefield even as it makes slow progress in the Donbas region.

Ukraine’s allies have pledged more weapons and support, but did not offer to send the fighter jets that Ukraine has requested.

MSU shooting aftermath » Students and faculty at Michigan State University are mourning classmates killed by a gunman who had no apparent connection to the school.

ROZMAN: He was not a student, faculty, or staff current or previous.

That’s deputy campus police chief Chris Rozman, who also said investigators have not identified a motive for the shooting.

Three students died and five were injured Monday night when the 43-year-old shooter opened fire in two campus buildings. He was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

MSU students spoke of the terror they felt as the campus went on lockdown.

AUDIO: For the whole time, for those two hours that I was sitting crunched under a desk that I was crying, thinking I was literally going to die, um, yeah, I had no information. Nobody was telling me anything.

The Michigan State campus is closed to all classes and activities today.

Inflation » A new U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows annual inflation eased slightly in January.

The Consumer Price Index rose by 6.4 percent last month compared to last January, down from 6.5 percent in December.

Rising food, shelter, and energy costs drove the year-over-year increase, while other core prices saw a smaller jump.

Financial analyst and adviser David Bahnsen.

BAHNSEN: The reason that core goods prices went up so much and have now come back down, is because of the supply chain related problems, which are very much on their way to being righted.

Economists had predicted a smaller increase in inflation than the report revealed.

The Federal Reserve has not ruled out future interest rate hikes as it works to lower inflation to about two percent.

Earthquake latest » Aid is pouring in from around the globe for earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria.

AUDIO: [in Spanish] We arrived here on Saturday …

Julian Hidalgo leads a Spanish canine search and rescue team. He said rescuers are still finding people alive in the rubble in Antakya, Turkey—the city historically known as Antioch.

In Syria, Saudi Arabia’s eighth planeload of relief supplies landed on Tuesday. Help is also on the way from the United Arab Emirates, which plans to send $100 million for relief efforts.

Meanwhile, The death toll from last week’s earthquakes is now over 40,000. Many survivors lack shelter and basic sanitation.

Nikki Haley launches campaign » HALEY: I'm Nikki Haley, and I'm running for President…

Republican Nikki Haley has officially entered the 2024 race for the White House. She announced her campaign Tuesday.

Former President Donald Trump has already kicked off his 2024 campaign and President Joe Biden is expected to announce his reelection bid soon.

Haley has served as governor of South Carolina and the U-S ambassador to the United Nations.

Rain in Kenya » RUTO: We pray for rain, Heavenly Father.

Kenyan President William Ruto led a national day of prayer on Tuesday.

The country is experiencing one of the worst droughts in decades as the region faces a sixth consecutive failed rainy season.

Kenyans gathered in the national stadium in Nairobi to pray for God to send rain.

RUTO: We pray that you shall give us, open the heavens for us so that we can have plenty so that our farms can produce.

The East African Intergovernmental Authority on Development estimates that the drought has affected 50 million people.

I’m Kristen Flavin. Straight ahead on Washington Wednesday, what Nikki Haley’s announcement means for the Republican party.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Wednesday the 15th of February, 2022. Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. It’s Washington Wednesday and now there are two.

Former President Trump announced another presidential bid shortly after the midterm elections. But that has not scared away other White House hopefuls. And as of this week, Trump officially has his first challenger for the GOP nomination.

A former governor — and a former member of the Trump administration — made it official in a video announcement on Tuesday.

HALEY: China and Russia are on the march. They all think we can be bullied, kicked around. You should know this about me: I don’t put up with bullies. And when you kick back, it hurts them more if you’re wearing heels. I’m Nikki Haley, and I’m running for president.

The 51-year-old wife and mother of two was born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa. Her father taught at a university in Punjab, India and her mother earned a law degree from the University of Delhi.

That was before they emigrated to Canada and later to a small town in South Carolina where Haley was born.

She told CBS: 

HALEY: I think you grew up in a small town. And you know, your father wears a turban, your mother wears a sari, we look different. Everybody treated us different. When it came to taking standardized tests, there was black, white, and other we were always in other. So there were a lot of reasons that we looked and felt different. But it was in that small town that I'm very grateful because my parents reminded us that it's not about how you're different. It's about how you’re similar.

BROWN: The Clemson University alumna entered politics in 2004 with a successful campaign for the state legislature, then ran what many considered to be a long shot for governor in 2010.

AUDIO: [Celebration]

But months later, she celebrated victory in that race as well.

AUDIO: [Nikki! Nikki! Nikki!]

EICHER: Her critics on the left say she was too conservative as governor, particularly on abortion and first amendment rights. Her detractors on the right say she failed to rein in state spending, which rose sharply on her watch.

But she had plenty of support where it counted at the ballot box. In 2014, she cruised to reelection, beating her Democratic challenger by 14 points.

A few years later, she would accept President Trump’s nomination as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations where she got a taste of global politics. Here she is in 2018 announcing a U.S. withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council.

HALEY: For too long, the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias. Regrettably, it’s now clear that our call for reform was not heeded. Human rights abusers continue to serve on and be elected to the council.

BROWN: After serving in the Trump administration, Haley initially said she would stand down and support Trump if he once again threw his hat in the ring.

But things have changed:

HALEY: Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. That has to change. It’s time for a new generation of leadership.

EICHER: After her video announcement on Tuesday, Haley will deliver remarks at a campaign launch event in Charleston today.

BROWN: Well, joining us now to talk about it is our own Kent Covington. 

And Kent, before there was a Washington Wednesday, we used to call it White House Wednesday. And we’d pull you in to talk about candidates as they announced their campaigns. And that sounded like a good idea again today.

KENT COVINGTON: Happy to do it!

BROWN: What did Haley’s tenure as governor of South Carolina tell us about her?

COVINGTON: Well, first of all, I think we learned that she was a solidly conservative executive. We did mention a moment ago. One criticism is that general fund spending rose significantly on her watch. According to that analysis from the Cato Institute, it rose 38% from 2011 to 2016. But saying she had mixed or limited success in reining in spending is not the same thing as saying she is a big spending big government Republican. I don’t think her opponents will try to make that case. And I think it would be a difficult case to make.

I think she was a generally fiscally conservative governor. She did push for tax cuts. And then on other issues, again, things, like life, the expansion of carry rights, etc. She was also solidly conservative.

We also learned, I think, that she is a good retail politician. She’s a good communicator. She is poised. She thinks well on her feet. She presents well.

BROWN: How does her service as ambassador to the UN help her candidacy?

COVINGTON: It definitely helps. Between her time as governor, and then, her time as ambassador, it gives her an impressive résumé to run on. That’s not to say that resumes win elections. They don’t. But it certainly helps.

If former Vice President, Mike Pence does not run, then she could wind up, being the only person on the stage, other than Donald Trump, with both executive and foreign policy experience. So she is a highly credible candidate. Certainly not easily dismissed, and we have a long way to go until the next presidential election. But foreign policy concerns could weigh heavier in this election than in a lot of other recent elections. Depending on where things stand with Russia, and Iran, and most, especially China.

In her announcement video, she made a point of saying that Russia and China think that they can push us around and said she will stand up to them. And as ambassador, she had a stage to do just that. There is plenty of video footage of Haley on the international stage taking authoritarian regimes to task. So that’s definitely something that her campaign will be able to put to good use.

BROWN: Why did Nikki Haley change her mind about not running against Trump?

COVINGTON: Well, I think this comes down to the perception of Trump’s strength as a nominee. There was a time not long ago when the almost universally held belief was that if Trump chose to run again, he would be the nominee. No one would be able to mount a serious challenge to him within the Republican Party.

That has changed. Democrats in the midterm elections really focused on running against Trump. They worked hard to tie Republicans to Trump. And as we know, it was a far less successful election for Republicans than expected. And a lot of key Trump-endorsed candidates, or candidates handpicked by Trump, like Herschel Walker, in Georgia, lost.

And one can debate whether Trump deserves any blame for the way the midterm elections went or not. I’m not here to debate that. But there is a perception on both sides of the aisle that Trump really took a lot of political damage in the midterms.

Most Democrats genuinely believe, rightly or wrongly, that Trump, as the Republican nominee, is their best chance to hold on to the White House. And that will be Haley’s argument. I’ve heard her make the point in recent interviews that she’s never lost an election. So she will push the electability argument and try to convince voters that she has the best chance of defeating President Biden or whoever the eventual Democratic nominee turns out to be.

BROWN: Interesting. So, how do you see the rest of this presidential field shaping up?

KENT: Well, the number one rival right now and all of the extremely early polling to Donald Trump… Is Florida governor Ron DeSantis as Trump’s political clout has diminished DeSantis star has taken off. And a lot of that is because the red wave that we were expecting last year did happen… It was just confined almost entirely to Florida.

But outside of Trump and DeSantis, and now, we could see something unprecedented here.

It is rare enough to see a former one-term president running for president again. That rarely happens. But his former UN ambassador is running against him. His former vice president could run against him. Mike Pence has strongly indicated that he is considering it. Trump's former Secretary of State might be running against him. Mike Pompeo has sent strong signals that he’s feeling out a possible run. And I have heard rumblings that former national security advisor John Bolton could also run.

So, if all that happens, we could have a former president running for president against four members of his own administration. And I can’t say this for certainty here, as I talk to you. I haven’t looked it up, but I would think that has to be unprecedented. So the months ahead will be very interesting to watch.

BROWN: Okay, Kent, thanks so much!

COVINGTON: You bet!

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: World Tour with our Africa reporter Onize Ohikere.

ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER: Nigeria election prep — We kick off today’s global news roundup here in Nigeria, where residents are gearing up for a presidential election on Feb. 25.

AUDIO: [Rally chant]

Thousands of people have turned out to support candidates as campaigns wrap up.

Political analysts have called the election a make-or-break situation. The three major contenders include candidates from the ruling and top opposition parties, as well as a third-party Christian candidate.

Parts of the country are battling a deadly security crisis.

AUDIO: [Fighting]

A policy from the central bank last month to redesign currency notes and limit cash withdrawals has sparked a cash crisis. Long queues also remain outside fuel stations.

Mohamed Rabiu Mudi is a businessman in northern Kano State. He says hunger and frustration is growing.

MUDI: As people are getting angry, it will get to a boiling point where people will start to revolt. And this is what we are afraid of.

State governors and lawmakers will be chosen in a separate vote two weeks after the presidential election.

South Africa power crisis — Next, we go to South Africa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a state of emergency over the country’s worsening power crisis.

Rolling power cuts of up to eight hours a day are taking a toll on homes and businesses.

AUDIO: [Protesters yelling]

Demonstrators last week disrupted Ramaphosa’s annual address to protest the shortages.

During his address, Ramaphosa also said he plans to appoint an electricity minister tasked with responding to the crisis.

RAMAPHOSA: We will continue our just transition to a low carbon economy at a pace our country is able to keep up with, and at that pace we can afford and in a manner that ensures energy security.

Eskom—the country’s power utility—has battled years of corruption and frequent breakdowns at its aging coal-fired power stations.

Nicaragua sentencing — We head over to Nicaragua where an outspoken Catholic bishop has received a prison sentence.

Bishop Rolando Alvarez is facing 26 years in prison and was stripped of his citizenship.

Nicaraguan authorities deported more than 200 opposition figures last week on a U.S.-bound flight that Alvarez refused to board.

AUDIO: [Ortega speaking]

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega saying here that Alvarez refused to leave. He insisted on meeting first with bishops in the country.

Ortega has cracked down on his opponents, whom he blames for trying to oust him in 2018 protests.

AUDIO: [Chanting protesters]

Several thousand pro-government demonstrators marched over the weekend to support the government’s expulsion of Ortega’s critics.

Cambodia media shutdown— We wrap up today in Cambodia.

AUDIO: [Crying]

Journalists were left in tears after the country’s strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen shut down one of the last independent media outlets.

Hun Sen revoked the broadcasting license for the online Voice of Democracy radio. The outlet reported that the prime minister’s son approved $100,000 worth of financial aid—on his father’s behalf—for earthquake relief in Turkey.

Hun Sen denied the report saying he signed off on the foreign aid himself.

The media director at the Cambodian Center for Independent Media says the radio team is ready to work with authorities.

AUDIO: Hopefully a solution can be realized soon.

Hun Sen has ruled Cambodia for 38 years. He has increasingly cracked down on opposition ahead of elections later this year.

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Ohikere in Abuja, Nigeria.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Over the weekend an Auburn University basketball fan stood on the baseline at one end of the court. He hunched over a bright orange golf ball with a putter in his hand...

ANNOUNCER: Alright Auburn family. It's time to putt for another car. I got Craig here…

Craig Noyes says he isn't much of a golfer, so the randomly selected sophomore was just hoping to successfully get the golf ball to the other end of the court.

ANNOUNCER: He's so focused and ready. Should we just let him do it? Oh, he's just gonna do it.

As the ball crossed mid-court at Neville Arena, the crowd held its breath as the ball lightly bounced straight and true...

ANNOUNCER: All right. There it is. There it is. Oh, that's the way! Yeah.

As the ball rolled through a very small hole 94 feet away, the sold-out crowd went crazy. Noyes became the first person to win the contest in more than eight years. He says it was so loud he had no idea he'd won until the announcer grabbed his shoulder and told him.

Well, Auburn ended up losing, but the fans from both teams were still celebrating that putt.

I think it’s safe to say Craig Noyes probably had a ball too.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Wednesday, February 15th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: church planting. 

Between 2011 and 2017, the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area saw about 220 new churches planted. But only three of those church plants were in poor neighborhoods.

BROWN: Planting churches in distressed communities is a unique challenge and traditional church planting strategies may not be up to it. So a new movement of church planters is trying to step up. WORLD Associate Correspondent Jeff Palomino has the story of one such effort.

WORSHIP: Praise the Lord everybody, Praise the Lord, Come on and Praise Your Savior, Your God who is worthy, the fruit of your lips, the clap of your hands…

JEFF PALOMINO, REPORTER: It’s Sunday at Congress Heights Community Church.

AUDIO: [WORSHIP]

Today there’ll be worship, scripture readings, prayer, and a sermon. Probably sounds a lot like your church, right? But did this happen to your pastor this week?

ROULHAC: I mean, just even last night, I was preparing for the sermon trying to finish up the sermon, I'm downstairs, working and we hear, like 50 rounds of shots..

That’s Josh Roulhac, the lead pastor.

ROULHAC: And thankfully, my understanding and seeing on the news, it didn't seem like anybody got hit by that. But there have been times where people have gotten hit. And so gun violence is plaguing our neighborhood.

Washington D.C is divided into eight areas called “Wards.” Congress Heights is in Ward 8. Over 91 percent of the ward’s residents are black, and it accounts for 62% of all homicides in the city. But gun violence isn’t the only sign of distress.

ROULHAC: Ward 8 in particular is, like, the most economically depressed ward of all the wards, right?

Drugs and crime come tied to the community’s economic depression…but there are other factors, too.

ROULHAC: I mean, we have like, one grocery store here in our neighborhood that serves the whole Ward eight, and the area is considered a food desert. And so, so distressed in that sense.

Then there’s education and home life.

ROULHAC: I think the kids are trying to do as best as they can, but they're coming in with so many burdens they have a single parent at home, maybe they haven't had a meal that morning…

Many church plants focus on a certain demographic, like young families or college students. Or a certain location, like a well-off suburb.

Those are praiseworthy endeavors, but that style of church planting doesn’t really work in distressed communities like Congress Heights.

ONWUCHEKWA: A lot of church planting is aimed at communities where the makeup of the community is like soil that already has all the basic nutrients.

That’s John Onwuchekwa. He’s the Co-Director of the Crete Collective, a new network aimed at planting churches in distressed and neglected communities.

So, what does it look like to plant a church in a neighborhood like Congress Heights?

First, a lot of ground-breaking needs to happen ahead of time. Onwucheckwa calls this “church-plowing.” He gives an example of his former church in West Atlanta.

ONWUCHEKWA: A group of folks on my team moved into the community that we planted our church in in 2015. And they actually started in 2011, buying homes, planting roots, helping to deal with things like drugs, and prostitution, and safety and failing schools and all of these things. And it really took them four years to plow and to build the type of trust in the community that when they said, We're getting ready to plant a church here, the community was on board.

This “long-view” leads to a related challenge: financial self-sustainability. Here’s Josh Roulhac again.

ROULHAC: For us self sustainability is a down the road thing. Some church planting networks may be like, hey, we'll support you for three years. And then we're by that time three years, you should have 300 members. And you should have, you should be able to afford everything on your own. That may not happen, that may not ever happen.

In 2020, Roulhac took a church planting residency with a congregation in southeast DC. That’s when the idea to plant a church in Congress Heights got started.

Roulhac and a core team started praying and planning. They began to connect with the neighborhood. Helping with clean up days and back to school events.

ROULHAC: There was an event over the summer…this group put on and it was a bunch of community partners out in the community. And so we had a table there…We were the only church. And we didn't have some of the things that other organizations were offering. But we did have Jesus, we were offering Jesus and he's enough. And we're passing out Bibles. And they went like hotcakes.

Church planting in distressed communities has to be creative. Crete Collective’s John Onwucheckwa talks about Galatians Chapter 2, where Paul was asked to “remember the poor.”

ONWUCHEKWA: I think we've so often taken the word,”Remember the poor,” and flattened it and reduced it to where it's only charity. And in the world that we live in, in the churches that we have, there's so many creative ways that we can remember the poor.

Roulhac explains how this works in Congress Heights:

ROULHAC: In our discipling efforts, want to give people Jesus, want to get people Jesus, that's what we're gonna give them. That's their only hope. At the same time, some may need medicine…some might need some counseling. And that's okay. Counseling is a gift from God. Might need to attend an AA meeting. And so we partner with other organizations, who specialize in food insecurity, who specialize in mental health and counseling, that's where we also have to go in our discipling efforts…

WORSHIP: Jesus, Jesus the name above every other name, Jesus, the only one who could save…

Today, Congress Height Community Church meets in the borrowed sanctuary of another church. It’s small, but that’s okay. Roulhac’s in no rush.

For now, it’s enough that there’s a brand new, gospel-preaching, hope-giving church in a community that didn’t have one.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Jeff Palomino in Ward 8 of Washington, D.C.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Wednesday, February 15th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Is pregnancy ever a kind of slavery? A recent court opinion seems to make that argument. So WORLD commentator Ryan Bomberger is going to help untangle that faulty logic.

RYAN BOMBERGER, COMMENTATOR: Chattel slavery was an evil institution in America that violently denied an entire group of human beings any humanity. It took a bloody Civil War and an historic 13th Amendment that abolished slavery to break those shackles. But a liberal federal judge wants to use that very Amendment to reapply shackles and justify the commercial violence of abortion. In U.S. vs. Lauren Handy, District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly opined that the 13th Amendment offers the constitutional right to abortion.

The same law passed to free people of my complexion should now be an instrument that casts motherhood as a form of slavery or involuntary servitude? Oh, the foolish cyclical nature of humankind. We ill-treat, retreat but then repeat.

Every judge takes this oath: “I solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons.” Well, every human is a person. Branding anyone a “non-person” always legitimizes violent inequality. At least the enslaved could try to run away, had an Underground Railroad, and had a voice to challenge their oppression. The unborn have zero ability to articulate or escape brutality against them.

Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling invokes pro-abortion professor Andrew Koppelman and his law review article, Forced Labor Revisited: The Thirteenth Amendment and Abortion. The opinion piece desperately tries to frame any abortion restriction as slavery and absurdly compares pro-life advocates to pro-slavery Southerners. Koppelman proclaims that certain human beings have no “moral status.” He declares it doesn’t matter how unborn humans are treated.

Pharaoh didn’t think enslaved Israelites had moral status. Stalin killed tens of millions he denied had moral status. Hitler didn’t think the nearly 250,000 disabled persons or the millions of Jews he slaughtered had moral status. Roe v. Wade erased the moral status of over 60 million humans. And now Judge Kollar-Kotelly has signaled the most marginalized in the womb have no moral status. How many times do we need to circle around this lie of inequality?

“Just as the white landowners tended to think that agricultural labor, whether forced or willing, was a suitable role for blacks, so opponents of abortion tend to think that motherhood, whether forced or willing, is a suitable role for women,” Koppelman falsely writes. Slave labor is not a biological trait of Black people. Conceiving, developing another human being, and giving birth through the natural act of labor, however, are beautiful biological traits of women.

The arguments Koppelman puts forth are ludicrous. If preventing a woman from killing her unborn child is slavery – because it “forces” her to use her body to provide for the child – why not apply that warped take on the 13th Amendment after a child is born? There is obviously a unique relationship between parent and child that demands the former protect the latter, but a rabid pro-abortion worldview always wants to sever that bond, both in and out of the womb.

I’m Ryan Bomberger.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: mental health experts are concerned about the effects of social media on teens. We’ll have a report.

Plus, the geopolitical fall-out of the war in Ukraine.

And, a Christian community in Australia that lives and worships according to the second chapter of Acts.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

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

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