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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Trump Admin. May Use DNA Tests to Prove Parents, Not Traffickers, Are Crossing Border With Children
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has indicated that the U.S. government is weighing the idea of testing DNA to prove parentage of children and parents detained at the southern border, a prominent evangelical leader with close ties to the administration has said.
9 Abortionists Accused of Breaking Law, Failing to Report Possible Child Sex Crimes
Nine Indiana abortion doctors and every abortion clinic in the state has been accused of breaking the law by failing to report abortions performed on girls younger than 16, some of whom were as young as 12.
Only 10 Christian Refugees From Iraq and Syria Admitted to US in 2018; Evangelicals Respond
As the Trump administration has promised to help Christians and other religious minorities who faced genocide at the hands of the Islamic State, the U.S. government has resettled only 10 Christian refugees from Iraq and Syria since the beginning of 2018.
Democrat Strategist Said He Received Pushback for Urging Party to Welcome Biblical Values
A black Democrat Christian strategist says that the party's donor class' push for secular progressivism is "out of tune" with the views of many black Christians in the Democratic Party, and recounted the pushback he personally received when he urged the party to be more welcoming to biblical values.
Robert Jeffress Accuses Dallas Mayor of Religious 'Hostility' for Vilifying 'Christian Nation' Event
Outspoken Pastor Robert Jeffress has shot back at Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, accusing him of being "hostile" toward his megachurch by speaking out against a billboard advertising an upcoming sermon on how "America is a Christian Nation."
North Korean Defector Details Being Sold for $2,300 to Chinese Man, Raped in Regime Labor Camp
A North Korean defector who at one point in her life was sold to a Chinese man for $2,300 and spent time in a North Korean prison has opened up about her life in squalor under one of the most brutal regimes in the world.
Norway Took Baby From This American Mom; She Is Still Fighting for Her Son 5 Years Later
It's been nearly four years since American citizen Amy Jakobsen Bjørnevåg has seen her son, Tyler, after he was taken away from her and put in foster care by Norway's child protection service because of a weight issue.
'Sex Assigned at Birth' Will Be Taught After Virginia School Board Ignores Parents' Concerns
Despite overwhelming opposition voiced by parents, one of the largest school districts in the country has approved controversial LGBT-friendly changes to its sex education curriculum that critics say were pushed by left-leaning political groups and lacked medical justification.
Liberty University 'Trump Prophecy' Movie Character 'Absolutely' Sure Trump Will Win Reelection
A retired Florida firefighter, whose "Trump prophecy" is the center of an upcoming feature-film being worked on by Liberty University students, says that he believes President Donald Trump will win re-election in 2020.
Why Are 2 of 3 White Evangelicals Opposed to Helping Refugees? World Relief Director Responds
As research shows that white evangelicals are the least likely demographic to believe that the United States has a responsibility to accept refugees into the country, a leading evangelical humanitarian activist has warned that many evangelicals and Americans may have misguided views about who refugees are as the U.S. turns its back against them.