http://www.assistnews.net The ASSIST NEWS SERVICE (ANS) provides a wide variety of national and international stories that goes to 2,600 media around the world. The news service is headed by veteran journalist Dan Wooding and has a string of experienced journalists and writers that include Michael Ireland, Mark Ellis, Jeremy Reynalds, Elizabeth Kendal, Rolland Baker, Bill Ellis, Maurice Rowlandson, Gordon Bailey, Herbert Eze, and many others. en-us http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020050.htm I love music. All sorts - classical to country, rock to reggae, folk to fusion, blues to bluegrass. My CD collection is huge, and growing every week. I’m almost thinking of renting another house to keep it in. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020049.htm Dear friends in the broadcast media: I have just done a nearly eight minute fascinating audio interview with Michael Oren, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States. It took place today (Monday, February 8, 2010) at Mariner’s Church in Irvine, Ca... http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020048.htm There are an overwhelming number of organizations involved in Haiti relief efforts, and some Christians may be confused about which ministries deserve their prayer and support. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020047.htm At least 27 men, women and children, among them five members of a Christian family, were killed during a twin blasts in Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial hub on Feb. 5. About 133 others were wounded. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020046.htm As the Winter Olympics are fast approaching, many Christians in B.C.'s Lower Mainland are anticipating some extraordinary opportunities,... http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020045.htm Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that a European court on Tuesday (Feb. 2) ordered Turkey to remove the religious affiliation section from citizens’ identification cards, calling the practice a violation of human rights. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020043.htm George Penk, 22, the former producer of Rhema’s popular the Home Run radio show in New Zealand, has taken over as host of the program which is now called the News Run. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020042.htm Three months after the deadly massacre of more than 20 Christian journalists in this island region of the Philippines, a lady pastor and her 12-year-old daughter, were brutally killed by still unidentified men in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao,... http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020041.htm Following the news that former Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr, has announced that at the age of nearly 70, he had “turned to God,” comes the revelation that, as a child, he attended an Evangelical Anglican church in Liverpool. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020040.htm Pakistan’s lawyers’ community on Friday, February 4, 2010, demanded that all charges against Advocate Muhammad Naeem, who is accused of torturing his Christian maid to death, be dropped. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020039.htm Biblefresh, a movement to help the Church gain appetite and confidence in God s word this week launched a 13 city tour in cities across the UK, including Belfast, Manchester, Liverpool, Bournemouth, London and Exeter. http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10020038.htm As voters in Ukraine decide who’ll be their next president this weekend Christians in the former Soviet Union country are concerned about the potential loss of religious freedom.