Michael Ireland
Michael Ireland is an Internet journalist and Media Missionary serving as Chief Correspondent for the ASSIST News Service. He is also an ordained minister and an award-winning local cable-TV host/producer. Michael has served with Dan Wooding and ASSIST News Service (ANS) since its beginning in 1989. He has reported for ANS from Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Israel, Jordan, China, and Russia. Follow Michael on Facebook at MichaelIrelandMediaMissionary and on Twitter at @Michael_ASSIST. You may support Michael as a media missionary at https://actintl.givingfuel.com/ireland-michael
Nigerian Pastor’s Wife Killed by Abductors
KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA (ANS) -- Details have emerged of the circumstances surrounding the death of a pastor’s wife who was abducted by armed assailants...
Thousands of Girls in Asia Saved From Terrible Fate
WILLS POINT, Texas (ANS) -- Tens of thousands of girls in Asia at risk of being sold into prostitution or slave labor have been...
Former Cocaine Drug Lord to Deliver Keynote Speech
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (ANS) – A former drug lord and drug trafficker will share life lessons and never-before-heard stories from his days as...
Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani goes on Hunger Strike
TEHRAN, Iran (ANS) -- Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, an Iranian pastor from the Church of Iran denomination who is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence...
Boko Haram Executes two Christian aid workers in Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria (ANS) – Islamic extremist group Boko Haram released a video last week showing the execution of two Christian aid workers in Nigeria,...
New Strategy for Combating Terrorism and Targeted Violence
WASHINGTON, DC (ANS) -- U. S. Vice President Mike Pence briefed several national faith leaders at the White House Symposium on Faith-based Community Safety...
Veteran and Next-Gen Editors Team Up for New Edition of Study...
CAROL STREAM, ILLINOIS (ANS) -- In 1988, a group of young editors and youth pastors were charged with creating a first-of-its-kind study Bible in...
Compassion Services teams help after cataclysmic events
WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) -- In the hours following a cataclysmic event such as a tsunami, cyclone or earthquake, stunned silence punctuated with grief-soaked...
Decade of Tears and Blood
JOS, NIGERIA (ANS) – A decade after Boko Haram began a bloody campaign to impose sharia (Islamic law) on all of Nigeria, Christian leaders...
“Urgent moral duty” to stop Religious Persecution
NEW YORK (ANS) – In what is a first for a sitting US President, Mr. Trump spoke on the issue of religious freedom at...
