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
Fulani Herdsmen in Nigeria Continue Campaign
JOS, NIGERIA (ANS) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen continued a campaign of seizing land for their cattle and territory for their religion this week, killing...
Indian Christian Families Forcibly Displaced
JHARKHAND STATE, INDIA (ANS) -- Seven Christian families have been forced to flee their village in Jharkhand state after facing intimidation, harassment and threats...
Gospel For Asia to Aid ‘Forgotten Outcasts’
WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) -- Leading faith-based humanitarian agency Gospel for Asia (GFA, www.gfa.org<http://www.gfa.org/> ), will provide crucial aid and spiritual support to hundreds...
13 Christians Killed in Attacks in Nigeria
JOS, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA (ANS) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Monday (June 17) killed four Christians in north-central Nigeria’s Kaduna state, including three children,...
Chin Christians Forced to Convert to Buddhism
YANGON, BURMA (ANS) – Local authorities in western Burma (Myanmar) last month forced three Chin Christians to convert to Buddhism, area sources said, according...
FBI Hosts Multi-Faith Round-table
WASHINGTON, D.C. (ANS) -- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, DC on June 18, hosted a Multi-Faith Targeted Violence in the U.S....
Ethiopian church told to vacate after 10 years
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (ANS) -- An evangelical church in central Ethiopia has been ordered to vacate its building, 10 years after it started meeting...
Coptic Christian Arrested for Allegedly Insulting Islam on Facebook
CAIRO, EGYPT (ANS) -- A young Coptic Christian man has been arrested near Cairo, Egypt for allegedly insulting Islam after a hacker posted material...
Imprisoned pastor warns youth about coming persecution
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA (ANS) -- Andrew Brunson, an American pastor who was imprisoned in Turkey for two years before the White House intervened in October...
Open Doors Releases 2019 Annual Report
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA (ANS) -- In 2018, 1 in 9 Christians worldwide lived in places where they experience high levels of persecution for following...
