Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith serves as Deputy Managing Editor for The Christian Post. He began working for CP in 2014 as a staff reporter. Before joining CP, Smith covered Maryland state politics as well as college and high school athletics for various news outlets. He graduated with a journalism degree from Towson University.
His areas of interest include human rights, politics and sports. Smith also serves on the international missions team of his local church. He lives in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with his family.
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Franklin Graham slams Lady Gaga's attack on Pences: They're 'the best kind of Christians'
Franklin Graham and other conservative evangelicals have come to the defense of Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, after pop singer Lady Gaga attacked the Pences as being the “worst representation” of the Christian faith.
Supreme Court allows Trump's transgender military ban go into effect
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender service members in the military to go into effect in a 5-4 decision that did not rule on the merits of the case.
ORU partners with G12 ministry to bring Bible education to Christians worldwide
Oral Roberts University has launched a new partnership with an internationally popular charismatic church movement to make the Oklahoma college’s theological education more accessible and affordable worldwide.
Christians from India, Nigeria and Iraq detail the persecution their communities face
The Christian Post spoke with believers from India, Iraq, Nigeria and one undisclosed South Asian country about the violence they and their communities have faced.
Undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood harvesting baby body parts are 'authentic': court
A federal appeals court has vacated a lower court ruling striking down Texas’ plan to defund Planned Parenthood and said that undercover sting videos purporting to unmask illegal practices of the abortion giant and its partners were authentic and not doctored.
On immigration, some evangelicals mistake 'America for the Kingdom of God': former Muslim
A former Muslim turned Texas pastor who came to the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution told those gathered at the Southern Baptist Convention’s 2019 Evangelicals for Life conference Thursday that he feels some evangelicals are misguided in their rhetoric on immigration.
Black 'genocide': Christian leaders call on HHS to abolish Office of Population Affairs
Black Christian pastors, doctors and lawyers are calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to abolish its Office of Population Affairs, an entity that they say is responsible for funding contraceptive programs that are partly responsible for a “genocide” in their communities.
'Will Roe go?' Supreme Court lawyer talks overturning landmark abortion case
The Christian Post sat down with Alliance Defending Freedom's Kristen Waggoner at the Evangelicals for Life conference to talk about the future of Roe, her inspiration for becoming a lawyer and what cases Christians should be keeping an eye on in 2019.
Ohio's new Gov. Mike DeWine swears on 9 Bibles during oath-of-office ceremony
As President Donald Trump made headlines in January 2017 for swearing on two Bibles during his oath of office, Ohio's new Catholic conservative Gov. Mike DeWine took it to another level on Monday.
This country was removed from Christian persecution list; now it's a 'model' for religious tolerance
Open Doors USA released on Wednesday its annual list of top 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted. Two countries were taken off the list and two were put on this year.