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
Fear reigns five years after Islamic State occupied Mosul
MOSUL, IRAQ (ANS) -- Five years after Islamic State occupied Mosul, returnees are living in fear.
The Islamic State’s three-year occupation of the northern Iraqi...
Radio Station Beams into North Korea
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (ANS) – Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) has the opportunity to build an AM transmitter in South Korea, a few kilometers...
Islamic State ‘genocide’ leaves area decimated
NINEVEH PLAINS, IRAQ (ANS) -- The Islamic State (ISIS) has adopted a strategy of insurgency in areas previously under the militants' control during the...
Rev. Sharon Risher Recalls Charleston Church Shooting
CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA (ANS) -- Rev. Sharon Risher realized she’d missed several calls from her daughter and sensed something was horribly wrong.
Rev. Sharon Risher's...
Ministries Unite to Plant New Radio Station in Mongolia
MISSION VIEJO, CALIFORNIA (ANS) – Two ministries have partnered together to help establish an FEBC Family Radio Station in Mongolia.
Guidelines International Ministries is working...
‘Political correctness’ by UK Christian leaders
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (ANS) --Britain's Christian leaders have been accused of 'political correctness.'
A Middle Eastern archbishop has accused Britain's Christian leaders of 'political correctness'...
‘Beyond Despicable’ Child Labour Industry Conditions
WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) -- "Beyond despicable." That's how child labour industry conditions are described in a new report.
The words "beyond despicable" are more...
Ugandan Police ban Evangelistic Meetings
NAIROBI, KENYA (ANS) -- Ugandan police have banned evangelistic events in a town in western Uganda after pastors and their converts received death threats.
Ugandan...
The Plight of Iraq’s Displaced Elderly Christians
BAGHDAD, IRAQ (ANS) – Displacement by ISIS (Islamic State) has inflicted enormous trauma on Iraq’s ever shrinking Christian community, among them the displaced elderly.
Reconstruction...
Cuban Government Cancels Church Construction Permit
HAVANA, CUBA (ANS) – The Cuban government has cancelled a church construction permit.
Baptist leaders in Cuba are calling on the government to fulfill its...
