The World and Everything in It: May 29th, 2024

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

The Libertarian party chose its presidential candidates. It did not choose Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and not Donald Trump either.

TRUMP: Nominate me, or at least vote for me, and we should win together (crowd boos).

NICK EICHER, HOST: We have a report from a very colorful convention ahead today on Washington Wednesday.

Also, a World Tour special report. And later …

DAVE EUBANK: And when I prayed that prayer, I thought, that’s a dumb prayer. Who’d ever want to come back here?

Christians returning to the capital of the former ISIS caliphate in Syria. And commentary from Janie B. Cheaney.

REICHARD: It’s Wednesday, May 29th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

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

REICHARD: Now news with Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: EU countries recognize Palestinian state » Spain, Norway and Ireland have formally recognized a Palestinian state against the strong objections of Israel.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez:

SANCHEZ:  This is a historic decision that has a single goal, to contribute to achieving peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Israel reacted strongly today. Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Sánchez’s government was “being complicit in inciting genocide against Jews and war crimes.”

But Sanchez countered:

SANCHEZ: The recognition of Palestine is not against anyone, least of all Israel, a friendly nation that Spain values and holds in high regard and with whom we aim to foster the strongest possible relationship. 

No major Western power has yet recognized a Palestinian state. The White House supports a so-called two-state solution, but says it has to happen with Israel at the negotiating table, rather than trying to force the issue.

Israeli investigation into Rafah incident » Meantime, Israel says it has preliminary results of an investigation into what caused a massive fire at a tent camp that ignited after an Israeli airstrike in the city of Rafah.

Military spokesman Daniel Hagari:

HAGARI:  We are looking into all possibilities, including the option that weapons stored in a compound next to our target, which we did not know of, may have ignited as a result of the strike.

He says preliminary results of the investigation show that it was a secondary explosion that killed at least 40 civilians. The probe reportedly found that the military fired two smaller munitions that targeted two senior Hamas militants and that those munitions were too small to ignite the fire on their own.

Hagari said Israel is operating in Rafah in “a very targeted and precise way.”

Biden administration reaction » U.S. State Dept. spokesman Matthew Miller says Washington is watching that investigation closely.

MILLER:  We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life in Rafa over the weekend.

He said  Israel has the obligation to do everything possible to minimize civilian harm. But he also added …

MILLER:  As we have said before, Israel has a right to go after the Hamas terrorists responsible for the cold blooded murder of civilians, as appears to have been Israel's aim here, and Hamas should stop hiding behind civilians in Gaza.

The White House has opposed a large-scale military operation in Rafah, but so far it says Israel has not carried out the expected major ground incursion.

Trump trial » A jury in Manhattan heard closing arguments Tuesday as Donald Trump’s business fraud trial nears its conclusion.

Prosecutors accused the former president of business fraud ahead of the 2016 election as he tried to silence an alleged extramarital affair.

Trump’s attorneys argued that he did nothing wrong and told jurors that the prosecution’s star witness Michael Cohen had lied to them.

And the former president made his closing argument to reporters at the courthouse.

TRUMP:  This is all election hunting, election interfering. It's going after Joe Biden's political opponent because he can't do it himself and they're helping out and we have a judge who is highly conflicted. He happens to be corrupt.

The jury is set to begin deliberating today, and jurors could hand down their verdict by the end of the week.

Trump gag order denied in documents case » Meanwhile, a federal judge in a separate case against Trump has rejected prosecutors’ request to place a gag order on the former president. WORLD’s Mark Mellinger has more.

MARK MELLINGER: Judge Aileen Cannon is overseeing a case accusing Trump of mishandling classified documents.

Special counsel Jack Smith wanted Cannon to bar Trump from making inflammatory comments about law enforcement officials involved in the case.

The request came after Trump criticized the FBI for having the ability to use deadly force when it raided his Mar-a-Lago resort home in 2022, with his campaign claiming in some fundraising emails that he “nearly escaped death.”

But the policy is standard FBI protocol for searches… and was also in place during classified document searches of President Biden’s homes and offices.

It actually limits agents’ use of deadly force… unless they or someone else is in imminent danger of death or serious physical harm.

The judge rejected Smith’s request, saying he should have made a meaningful effort to work it out with Trump’s lawyers before seeking the gag order.

For WORLD, I’m Mark Mellinger.

Australia PM on Papua NG tragedy, fears of 2nd slide, disease » Villagers in Papua New Guinea digging through mud trying to recover the bodies of those buried by Friday’s massive landslide.

The UN estimates close to 700 villagers died, while Papua New Guinea’s government thinks more than 2,000 were buried alive.

And now, Nicholas Booth of the UN Development Program says there are fears a second landslide could be coming.

BOOTH: This was not only a very significant landslide, but the terrain is continuing to move. So my team that were actually at the site yesterday, they said they could even feel the ground moving under them and the ground moving around them.

Another concern is the possible outbreak of disease as rubble and rot mix with the area’s water supply.

Papua New Guinea’s nearest neighbor, Australia, is helping with evacuations and recovery efforts.

I’m Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Highlights from the Libertarian National Convention on Washington Wednesday. Plus, World Tour.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Wednesday the 29th of May, 2024.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Up first: Washington Wednesday.

Republicans and Democrats have a couple months to go before their National Conventions, but a third party has gone ahead and assembled its ticket.

Over the weekend, the Libertarian Party met in Washington. Roughly 900 delegates heard speeches, they cast votes, and they argued a lot.

REICHARD: Washington Bureau reporter Carolina Lumetta has the story.

CAROLINA LUMETTA: The Libertarian Party has a cardinal tenet: all people have the right to decide how to live their own lives. At the bi-annual national convention, this philosophy clashed with political maneuvering in Washington. On Saturday evening, the headline speaker encountered a raucous audience.

AUDIO: [Crowd chanting, cheering, and booing] 

Form.er President Trump adapted his typical stump speech, insisting that Republicans and Libertarians can unite.

His entrance provoked boos from many Libertarians, masking the cheers from the Trump supporters in the back of the room who came specifically for the speech. The former president lost patience after several minutes of heckling.

TRUMP: Now I think you should nominate me or at least vote for me, and we should win together. Or you can keep going the way you have for the last long decades and get your three percent and meet again, get another three percent…

In the 2016 general election, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson won just over three percent of the vote. In 2020, Jo Jorgenson received only one percent. At the last convention in 2022, a more conservative wing of the party, called the Mises Caucus, took over party leadership positions. This faction invited Trump to speak, arguing his policies are similar to the party’s platform. Libertarian chairwoman Angela McArdle gave Trump a list of concerns that he addressed. Trump promised Saturday night to appoint a Libertarian to his Cabinet in 2025. But his appeal fell on deaf ears.

TRUMP: I'm asking for the Libertarian Party's endorsement, or at least lots of your votes, lots and lots and– [interrupted by booing]

In a race where every vote counts, Trump hoped to capitalize on Libertarian frustrations with the Biden administration. His campaign spun the Saturday speech as proof that the former president is reaching out beyond his base.

Gerred Bell is the Libertarian Party chairman for Georgia. While he leans more conservative, he told me such an endorsement is out of the question.

BELL: They all come here to try and sway us. But we know what we believe we know where we're at already. We don't need you to try and convince us that you're a libertarian. We know you're not.

The national party platform prizes economic and personal liberty in all areas. It opposes nearly every government bureaucratic agency. Most Libertarians also support open borders. Delegates told me they fiercely defend the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, but they’re opposed to funding wars because they believe violence is only justified in self defense.

That conviction also meant many Libertarians opposed another White House hopeful speaking at the convention: Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

KENNEDY: Can you hear me?

Kennedy fared only slightly better than Trump. He gave an overview of American history and argued that pandemic lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates violated the Bill of Rights.

KENNEDY: You all disagree about many things, many of you don't disagree with don't agree with me on a lot of stuff. But we all agree on one thing, which is without the Bill of Rights, we have nothing in this country. [applause] And we all need to be united because there are a lot of people out there who don't understand what America is supposed to look like, and the people in this convocation do.

As an independent candidate, RFK must gain petition signatures in every state to secure a spot on their ballots. If the Libertarian Party chose him as a nominee, he would automatically appear on ballots across the country. But the party could have risked running afoul of the Federal Election Commission for nominating a non-party member.

The crowd didn’t go along. Most delegates told me they agreed with Kennedy’s anti-vaccine points and small government push, but they couldn’t get past his support for Israel in its war against the Hamas terrorist group. Here’s how South Carolina delegate Josh Parks described it:

PARKS: If you are for foreign wars in any way, you're probably going to have a hard time being in the Libertarian Party. Unless a country has aggressed us like unless they're, they are actively trying to make war with the United States. we shouldn't be involved. And so us getting involved in Ukraine, us being involved in, even in Israel, and Gaza, like those are, those are big no’s for the party.

On Sunday, Trump and RFK failed to advance past the first nomination ballot. Instead, delegates nominated Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver, a former U.S. Senate candidate from Georgia. In 2022, he won a little more than 2 percent of the votes in the state’s general election, forcing the race into a runoff between the major party candidates. Here’s what he told WORLD:

OLIVER: And we want to build up and organize so we can have a real alternative to both Republicans and Democrats, which so many voters say is vital. Over almost two thirds of voters say they're willing to look at someone who's not Trump and Biden, if there's someone to vote for. And I think if we put a positive libertarian message out there, we can grow ourselves in the years to come for the next generation.

If Oliver can beat Gary Johnson’s 2016 record, that could prevent Trump and Biden from clinching 270 Electoral College votes. This would force the House of Representatives—even more tightly divided—to settle the election.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Carolina Lumetta in Washington.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: a World Tour special report.

Millions of voters in South Africa are lined up at polling stations today, casting votes in the country’s general election. It’s South Africa’s seventh democratic election.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And now WORLD’s Africa Reporter Onize Ohikere.

SOUND: [Rally]

ONIZE OHIKERE: Days before today’s vote, supporters of the leading Democratic Alliance opposition party crowded into a 20,000-seat stadium just outside the city of Johannesburg.

Party leader John Steenhuisen assured supporters of victory.

JOHN STEENHUISEN: On Wednesday, the ANC will lose the outright majority that it has abused for decades. It will lose the majority that it has abused to push this country into unemployment, to commit corruption and misrule. And on Wednesday, we close the chapter on the ANC rule.

SOUND: [Rally]

Earlier on Saturday, supporters of the ruling African National Congress party—or ANC—spread out across a 94,000-seater stadium in Johannesburg, all donning the party’s yellow, green, and black colors.

Here’s the country’s president and party leader Cyril Ramaphosa.

CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: We gather here carrying with us the hopes and aspirations of millions of our people across the length and the breadth of South Africa to declare that together we will do more and we will do better.

The final rallies wrapped up before Election Day, when some of South Africa’s nearly 28 million registered voters cast their ballot.

South Africans living abroad already cast their votes earlier this month.

AUDIO: [Elderly woman voting]

Meanwhile, more than 600,000 early voters, including the elderly and the sick who can’t go to the polls, voted on Monday.

They include 59-year-old Lulama Mayeki.

LULAMA MAYEKI: I am changing party, I have been voting for one party for all these years but I think the one that I am voting for now will make a big change.

South Africans don’t directly vote for a leader but instead elect members to the lower house of parliament, who are then tasked with voting for the new president. The general poll also includes electing members of provincial parliaments.

The ruling ANC party has led South Africa since 1994. That’s when the white-minority rule known as apartheid came to an end.

For the first time since then, the ANC is widely expected to score less than 50 percent of the votes—a move that could force the party to join forces with other parties.

Christopher Vandome is a senior research fellow with the Chatham House Africa Program.

CHRISTOPHER VANDOME: That's what's really striking about this election and that's why it's been billed as the most contested election for 30 years. Pluralism in every form is kind of a new thing in South Africa and that's what's really exciting about this election.

The party’s challenges come at a tough time for many South Africans. Unemployment ranks at 32 percent. Frequent power cuts to conserve available resources—a practice called load shedding—has harmed many businesses, and violent crime levels remain high.

Despite the grievances, the ruling party is still expected to emerge as the frontrunner. Vandome pointed to the party’s strong dominance in rural communities. Loyalty to the ANC is also tied to its role in leading the battle against apartheid under the leadership of the late Nelson Mandela.

VANDOME: It's because that party still has a strong resonance with people for its liberation credentials. Yes, those are weakening, and particularly for a generation of people who were born after 1994. But there's still this kind of attachment to the party for those reasons.

If the ANC vote falls below 50 percent, the party will then look to the opposition parties. Vandome says that the potential partnerships could play out differently on the national and provincial levels.

VANDOME: That's what makes this really, really difficult is that there are no natural allies here. You've got opposition parties who have been campaigning for years on, “We want to get the ANC out of office.” And so that's been their number one kind of campaign. And so they're now saying, well, okay, we've been saying for years, we want to remove the ANC from office, but now we're going to work with them.

South Africa has remained a key player in conflicts across the continent. The country has troops stationed in Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

PROTESTER: Free the Palestine!

On the wider international front, South Africa has waded into the conflict between Israel and Gaza. The International Court of Justice is still deliberating on South Africa’s request for Israel to cease all military operations in Gaza. South African leaders have drawn parallels between the country’s apartheid history and the plight of Palestinians.

Students at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg also set up a pro-Palestine encampment this month.

Vadome says the opposition Democratic Alliance party backed Israel, but tempered its support over its large Muslim voter base in the Western Cape province.

VANDOME: And certainly I think from across the political spectrum, things like the seeing the South Africans lawyers in the ICJ, you know, that's a point of pride for South Africa.

The Electoral Commission will formally announce the results on Sunday.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Ohikere.

NICK EICHER, HOST: File this one under “Wacky Thrill-Seekers.”

A few days ago in Gloucester, England, dozens of competitive cheese chasers try to out-run or out-roll a 7-pound wheel of cheese down a 200 yard hill. A very steep hill, as winner Tom Kopke says:

TOM KOPKE:  … my first probably 25 meters I had my feet then they disappeared and I was rolling.

You might as well just roll anyway, the cheese gets a one-second head start, and things move so fast people get knocked over.

The annual event draws daredevils from all over the world.

American Abby Lampe won the women’s race, again:

ABBY LAMPE: I just remember rolling down and my face getting beat up again and I was just thinking to myself like there’s only gonna be a few seconds I’m gonna get to the bottom at some point and then it’ll be over!

Yeah, but the pain may last a bit.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Wednesday, May 29th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

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

Before we get into this next story, a warning: this story may not be appropriate for young ones. So this is the time to hit pause and come back later.

We go to Raqqa, the former capital of the ISIS caliphate in Syria.

The city of Raqqa was home to about five thousand Christians before it fell to ISIS in late 2013. The city remained under ISIS rule for about three years.

What happened to Raqqa’s Christians and how are those still in the city doing now?

EICHER: WORLD associate correspondent Caleb Welde brings us this report.

AUDIO: [Vehicles running, car doors shutting] Good morning!

CALEB WELDE: It’s a warm November day in Downtown Raqqa and the air is thick from last night’s rain and persistent smog. A team of humanitarian aid workers is arriving at the Armenian Apoastolic Church. The relief workers are Free Burma Rangers—a small, Burma-based group focusing on helping displaced people in war zones.

In 2020, The Rangers helped rebuild this church. Though several adjacent structures remain rubble and rebar skeletons, the new church is pristine. Dave Eubank leads the team.

DAVE EUBANK: We had no money for this kind of thing. And God provided it, mostly from one family in Texas.

The main structure is two stories high, desert tan, with a large cross fixed to the top of a third-story dome.

EUBANK: So here it is. Total miracle to me.

Natural light streams in from large windows in the vaulted ceiling—a stark contrast to the jet black paint ISIS used to coat the front of the building in late 2013. ISIS also raised its black flag in place of the cross.

EUBANK: Then they tunneled underneath it and put a headquarters underneath it. Because then from the air, if the American saw there was something left they wouldn't bomb the church.

But the Americans did bomb the church in the fall of 2017. Eubank saw the aftermath several months later.

EUBANK: Total wreckage. Stunk. Bones. You saw the videos, dead bodies, everything.

He prayed God would rebuild the church and that the Christians would come back.

EUBANK: And when I prayed that prayer, I thought, that's a dumb prayer! Who'd ever want to come back here? What a waste of money. Ha! And then I said Lord, sorry, that was just a reflexive prayer. What is your prayer? And this time I close my eyes and I listen and I felt God say, Pray that same prayer, but this time with faith. Jesus, please, I'm sorry. Please bring the Christians back, help the church be rebuilt.

Eubank says he then went outside to see a man walking toward him with a rifle.

EUBANK: And he goes, What are you doing in my church? Said praying it gets rebuilt. He goes, I'm the only Armenian left here. This is Armenian Apostolic Church. I've been shot four times by ISIS. And then there's like four others. You know somewhere around here. But there were 1000s before, and they’re gone.

Today, the beautiful new sanctuary still sits empty. The pews have a thick layer of dust on them. A middle-aged Muslim man in sepia sunglasses guards the building. He leads several aid workers to some graffiti on the exterior walls of the church.

MUSLIM CARETAKER: Allahu Akbar.

Or, “Allah is Great,” in black spray paint. And there’s more…

SYRIAN TRANSLATING: Hmm, yeah, We come to kill you, um, pig.

AMERICAN FREE BURMA RANGER: So who wrote it, some people?

SYRIAN TRANSLATOR: Daesh, yeah ISIS.

After the visit to the church— Eubank and his team pull into a refugee camp on the outskirts of the city to put on a children’s program for about two hundred kids.

Ahmed helps oversee the camp. He used to be a journalist in Aleppo—a Syrian city three hours to the west.

AHMED: According to all my friends who are from Raqqa, they told me really hard stories about how ISIS was torturing them, and how they are cutting heads, and throwing the heads in front of the people.

Ahmed was himself arrested in 2013 when someone turned him in for taking photos. He spent more than a month in an ISIS prison.

AHMED: If someone didn't know how, how the Muslims pray, they will arrest him and put him in the jail and torture him and let him know how he should pray.

He says the average civilian in Raqqa did not support ISIS, but…

AHMED: If he saw a head in the street, what, what should he say? I like ISIS! Of course he will say that!

Ahmed also says Christians were kidnapped…

AHMED: And force them to be Muslims. And if they are not, they, they kill them. So that's it. In short.

Now, most sources say there are less than a hundred Christians in Raqqa.

One claims exactly 26 believers in the city of three hundred thousand.

After the children’s program, a high-ranking government official invites the team to his office. He seems relaxed talking with Eubank.

[LAUGHTER]

TRANSLATOR: He said I regret.

EUBANK: Regret what?

TRANSLATOR: Regret of married.

Regrets being married.

SYRIAN TRANSLATOR: It's not like for love issue. He loves his wife.

The man also has three children.

TRANSLATOR: The regret is that we brought these kids to this life to suffer.

GROUP: Hmm.

Eubank challenges that thinking.

EUBANK: Everything about love is worth it.

He says Jesus is the source of worthwhile love.

EUBANK: Not just a prophet. Our Savior, to be with us and help us. When our time is finished, whether we die in Idlib or Raqqa or America or Europe, go to heaven. You can look in your wife's eyes and tell her how much you love her, the same for your children.

So, even if the church sits empty, it doesn’t mean the church isn’t at work.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Caleb Welde in Raqqa, Syria.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Wednesday, May 29th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Up next: the decline in church attendance across America. WORLD commentator Janie B. Cheaney says it’s true that we’re seeing cracks in America’s foundation. But numbers or not, the foundation of the Church is doing just fine.

JANIE B. CHEANEY: In the old days, when I was in elementary school, almost everybody claimed to be part of some established church. Even Christmas-and-Easter Christians, backsliders, and unbelievers belonged somewhere. If not an actual church, then the fellowship of Masons, Elks, Lions, or the local golf club.

But church loyalty began unraveling even before I graduated from high school, with growing scorn toward “organized religion.” College students of the baby-boomer era sloughed off church attendance along with other restraints, even though many of them came back with their babies. But family bonds were loosening too—divorce rates shot up in the seventies. More Gen-Xers grew up in broken homes than any generation previously. Millennials are eschewing marriage (and babies) altogether, and Gen Z isn’t even dating.

Did the family dissolve first, or the church? In his newsletter, Atlantic writer Derek Thompson examines “The True Cost of the Churchgoing Bust.” As an agnostic, he once saw the drop in church attendance as positive, but now he’s reconsidering. The rise in Americans identifying as atheists, agnostics, or “unaffiliated” coincides with a decline in public engagement generally. What if church community were the bedrock of all community, all sense of belonging? “Many people,” Thompson writes, “having lost the scaffolding of organized religion, seem to have found no alternative…”

Thompson spoke to NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg, who agreed that one was probably related to the other. Klinenberg admitted, “It’s hard to know what the causal story is here.” But regular churchgoing remains the one constant in family stability, social engagement, volunteerism, and general satisfaction. This was especially true in the U.S., where upward mobility replaced the ethnic traditions and static villages of older societies. Now that mobility has stalled, technology fills the gap. Thompson references Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation, where Haight compares the “disembodied, asynchronous, shallow” and “solitary” experience of smartphones to the physical, temporal, deep, and communal experience of church.

Across the water, renowned atheist Richard Dawkins is missing some of that experience as well. In an Easter Sunday interview with Rachel Johnson of the London Broadcasting Company, he was “slightly horrified” to see Ramadan promoted over Easter in the UK. Even though he welcomes the decline of genuine Christian faith, “It would be truly dreadful” (he says) if another religion replaced the cathedrals, hymns, and Christmas carols he values as a ‘cultural Christian’.” He doesn’t seem to understand that Islam would not merely replace those artifacts; it would outlaw them.

Derek Thompson’s concerns are utilitarian and Dawkins’ are aesthetic, but both seem to recognize the church as a foundation of social order. They don’t like what they’re seeing as cracks begin to break it down. But they don’t see the Rock underneath.

Social trends should concern us but not defeat us. Whether the church continues to shrink or bursts out in revival—for which we fervently pray—its relevance will stand as a rebuke or rescue for this crooked generation. If Egyptian bondage and Babylonian captivity couldn’t forestall God’s purpose, neither will smartphones.

For the Rock is Christ.

I’m Janie B. Cheaney.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: A show of support for Taiwan. American lawmakers pay a visit, and China responds with live fire drills.

We’ll talk about the rising tensions with a China expert.

And the Scripps National Spelling Bee is going on this week. Thousands of dollars up for grabs! We’ll talk to former competitors. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

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

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