4.16.26 Federal prosecutions of pro-lifers, firefighters for medical freedom, an AI-powered charter school, and a doctor’s theology of work
The World and Everything In It
WORLD Radio
4.8 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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A report on selective federal prosecutions of pro-lifers, firefighters’ religious discrimination case, an AI-powered charter school, and how daily tasks can reveal the image of God. Plus, Daniel Suhr on the paywalls between sports and their fans, the rescue of a hiker’s best friend, and the Thursday morning news
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. A new report calls out selective federal prosecutions of pro-lifers. |
| 0:10.7 | The Department of Justice was working very closely with outside organizations to actually target |
| 0:16.8 | individuals that were just at different views. |
| 0:19.6 | We'll have a report. Also, firefighters who lost their |
| 0:23.0 | jobs for refusing the COVID vaccine plan to ask the Supreme Court to take up their case. And how a doctor's |
| 0:30.7 | theology of work shapes the way he sees patients and ordinary tasks. I love to reflect back to people the image bits and glimpses |
| 0:40.6 | of the image of God that I see in them. And world commentator Daniel Sir on the growing paywalls |
| 0:46.1 | between sports and their fans. It's Thursday, April 16th. |
| 0:57.8 | This is The World and Everything in it from listeners-supported World Radio. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm Mary Reichert. |
| 1:02.6 | And I'm Myrna Brown. |
| 1:03.9 | Good morning. |
| 1:06.4 | Up next, Kent Covington with today's news. |
| 1:10.1 | Pakistan is working to bring Iran back to the bargaining table. |
| 1:14.0 | Pakistan's army chief has arrived for meetings in Tehran |
| 1:16.8 | in an effort to arrange a second round of direct peace talks between U.S. and Iranian leaders. |
| 1:22.3 | White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt told reporters. |
| 1:25.2 | We've remained very much engaged in these negotiations in these talks. |
| 1:29.6 | You heard from the vice president directly and the president this week |
| 1:32.3 | that these conversations are productive and ongoing, and that's where we are right now. |
| 1:37.4 | Meantime in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military is enforcing a blockade of shipping traffic in and out of Iran. |
| 1:45.6 | Zentcom posted audio of the broadcast warning sent from Navy ships. All vessels are advised to immediately return to port |
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