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
Called to be Men: Part Two
BILLINGS, MONTANA (ANS) – According to authors Pastor Steve Heimbichner and Pastor Deborah Munson, the central thesis of Called to be Men is that...
Cuban Officials Forbid Church Leaders to Attend Religious Freedom Event
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (ANS) -- Authorities in Cuba on Sunday (July 14) refused to allow the national presidents of two Christian denominations to board...
From Picking Trash to Picking a College
WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) -- According to Gospel For Asia, six-year-old **Bir scavenged for usable plastic bags. His parents used them to tote home-grown...
Called to be Men: Part One
BILLINGS, MONTANA, UNITED STATES (ANS) -- Surrounded by multiple conflicting voices in our Western society concerning manhood, how can we as men overcome our...
Cuban Government Bans Evangelicals from Travel
CUBA (ANS) -- Three evangelical leaders were prevented from boarding flights from Cuba to the United States on Saturday and Sunday July 13-14 as...
Indian Christians Forced to ‘Reconvert’
HYDERABAD, INDIA (ANS) -- Christians who worshipped privately in their homes in a village in eastern India were dragged to local leaders last month...
Persecution Watchdog Welcomes Renewal of Special Rapporteur
NEW MALDEN, UNITED KINGDOM (ANS) – A Christian group monitoring persecution around the world welcomes the resolution passed on July 11 at the UN...
Drugs, Cancer Took His Parents – but Not His Hope
WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) -- Sam’s father, Afiba, left Nigeria to find work in Asia several years ago. He married, found a stable job...
More of a Lifestyle, Less of a Job (Part Two)
WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) -- Behind-the-scenes missionaries at Gospel For Asia faithfully lift up the needs of their brothers and sisters in Asia in...
More of a Lifestyle, Less of a Job (Part One)
WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) -- Before becoming behind-the-scenes missionaries at Gospel For Asia, Jonathan and his wife, Erica, lived fairly normal, routine lives: Jonathan...
