Samuel Smith

Deputy Managing Editor

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.

Latest

Apr 11, 2017
ISIS Buried Over 1,600 Bodies in Mass Graves in Yazidi Town of Sinjar
The dead bodies of over 1,600 people have been discovered in 31 different mass graves in the predominantly Yazidi town of Sinjar in northern Iraq, the town's mayor said.
Apr 11, 2017
Teacher Fired for Assigning 6th Graders Questionnaire on Going to Gay Bar
A Florida middle school teacher has been fired after she assigned her students a questionnaire that asked a number of "inappropriate" questions about race, sexuality, religion and culture.
Apr 11, 2017
ISIS Massacres 140 Civilians Trying to Flee Mosul
The Islamic State terror group has executed over 140 civilians who tried to escape jihadi-held territory in western Mosul, the Kurdish Regional Security Council has said.
Apr 10, 2017
Atheist Group Says It's Unconstitutional for College Football Coach to Tweet About God
The nation's leading secularist legal organization is pressuring the University of Mississippi to ban its head football coach, Hugh Freeze, from using his Twitter account to write about his Christian faith and God.
Apr 10, 2017
ISIS Militant Ripped Baby From Mother's Womb and Raped It, Activist Says
Speaking at the annual Women in the World Summit in New York City last Friday, a Yazidi human rights Iraqi activist shared horrifying details about how a friend she grew up with and her unborn daughter were victimized by Islamic State militants when the terrorists took over her hometown in 2014.
Apr 7, 2017
North Korean Defector Risks Her Life to Share Gospel With Her Family Back Home
A North Korean defector put her life on the line to go back home to tell her Christian family that she accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior. And although she was arrested and imprisoned, she was able to escape.
Apr 7, 2017
USCIRF to Launch Extensive List of People Imprisoned for Their Faith Worldwide
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has announced that it will launch a detailed list to provide the public with the names of thousands of people across the world who are imprisoned, being tortured or have disappeared because of their faith and religious freedom advocacy.
Apr 6, 2017
Muslim Prof.'s Lawsuit Against Christian Student Dismissed by Florida Judge
A lawsuit filed by a Muslim professor against a Christian student, who was suspended last month at a Florida college after he challenged the professor on her assertions about Jesus, has been dismissed by a Florida judge.
Apr 6, 2017
Mother Outraged After Daughter's Injected With Birth Control Implant on School Trip
An Oklahoma mother is voicing her anger after her daughter's school organized a trip to a local health clinic in which her daughter was given a three-year birth control implant without her approval.
Apr 5, 2017
Iraqi Christian Family Opens Up Their Home to 50 Refugees Fleeing ISIS
The family of a Christian doctor who's using his talents to save the lives of wounded Islamic State fighters and others injured in the conflict have opened up their home to about 50 Iraqis displaced from their homes when the brutal terror group took control in parts of Iraq.