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
Leprosy still rears its ugly head
WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) -- As the World Health Organization notes, leprosy is an ancient disease, but it still rears its ugly head today.
Leprosy...
Fulani Herdsmen Kill At Least 40 Christians
JOS, KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA (ANS) -- Fulani herdsmen have killed aAt least 32 people in an attack on a Christian area of north-central Nigeria...
Chinese authorities blow up Christian megachurch with dynamite
LINFEN, SHANXI PROVINCE, CHINA (ANS) -- Chinese authorities have blown up with dynanmite a well-known Christian megachurch, inflaming long-standing tensions between religious groups and...
Ragpickers move from rural discrimination to dehumanizing slums
WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) – All over the world, millions of disenfranchised people have ended up in slum dwellings as ragpickers. In 2017, about...
Logos Hope — 10 Years Afloat as OM Ambassador Ship
FLORENCE, SOUTH CAROLINA (ANS) -- Logos Hope, the fourth ship OM has operated and the world’s largest floating bookfair, celebrated its tenth anniversary in...
Milestones from Gospel for Asia’s First 40 Years
WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) – Gospel for Asia (GFA) was born 40 years ago when K.P. and Gisela Yohannan felt the call of the...
Asia Bibi’s Life still threatened
KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- Asia Bibi, recently acquitted of blasphemy, has been transferred to a new location following threats to her life, a family...
Tun N. Mourned After Abduction at Gunpoint in Myanmar
WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) -- Gospel for Asia (www.gfa.org ) is mourning the loss of one of its field-partner workers, village pastor Tun N,...
ARCHBISHOP WELCOMES MANCHESTER EXHIBITION SEEKING TO BRIDGE BREXIT DIVIDE
MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM (ANS) -- An exhibition in Manchester where churches will come together to try and find a way forward through the Brexit...
Asia Bibi free to leave Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- Pakistan's top court has rejected a challenge to the acquittal of a Asia Bibi on blasphemy charges.
The BBC reports the...
