“When Nature Calls,” Gospel for Asia improves health and well-being by providing simple necessities By Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net)   WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS – Nov. 14, 2018) – “When Nature Calls” is the theme of an international campaign to provide essential sanitation.…

A discussion on the importance of birds to people and the Bible

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO—One-hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress signed the Migratory Bird Treaty Act—MBTA (codified at 16 U.S.C. …

 Canada considering Asia Bibi asylum bid
By Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent, ASSST News Service (www.assistnews.net) OTTAWA, CANADA (ANS – Nov. 12, 2018) — Asia Bibi may be granted asylum in Canada.…

Pray, ponder, and seek God’s pastures of protection in a time of violence

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO—“Ponder the lives that were lost..and the day humans will learn war no more” (Isaiah 2:4), the newly installed Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, Michael Buerkel Hunn, reminded a congregation of several hundred people during a service of Remembrance at The Cathedral of St.…

By Michael Ireland, Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service (www.assistnews.net) LAKE FOREST, CA (ANS – Nov. 10, 2018) — Rick Warren, the best-selling author and pastor of one of the largest churches in the country, has been hospitalized and undergone emergency surgery successfully.…

ABQ Typewriter Society’s 4th Annual Type-Out

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO—Kevin Kittle states that his love of typewriters began early.  “I didn’t like handwriting as a boy,” he begins.  “And because my parents owned a print shop, typewriters were readily available. …