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.

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Mar 7, 2017
Over 80 Chinese Christians Arrested for Worshiping in House Churches
Dozens of Christians were arrested for worshiping at underground house churches across the autonomous Chinese region of Xinjiang during crackdowns on Christianity that occurred around the Lunar New Year holiday in late January, a leading persecution watchdog has reported.
Mar 7, 2017
Planned Parenthood Rejects Trump Compromise on Funding: Abortion 'Vital to Our Mission'
The Donald Trump administration has reportedly told the nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, that it can maintain its hundreds of millions of dollars in annual federal funding as long as it stops performing abortions altogether.
Mar 7, 2017
Texas Lt. Gov Calls Pastors to Engage in Alamo-Like Transgender Bathroom Battle
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is mobilizing pastors in Texas to be public advocates of a transgender bathroom bill that would require people use state-run bathrooms consistent with their biological sex and prevent local governments from enacting their own transgender bathroom ordinances.
Mar 7, 2017
Blind Christian Woman Refuses ISIS' Demands to Convert to Islam, Lives to Tell About It
A blind Christian woman who was trapped under Islamic State control in Mosul for over two years before she was finally able to escape has opened up about how she boldly refused militants' demands for her to denounce Christ and convert to Islam.
Mar 7, 2017
Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke Who Led Millions to Christ Announces 'Farewell Crusade'
Prominent German-born evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, whose ministry has led 76 million people to Christ since 1974 and has had a profound impact on the continent of Africa, has announced his African "farewell" crusade.
Mar 6, 2017
Trump's New Travel Ban Doesn't Give Priority to Persecuted Religious Minorities
President Donald Trump signed another executive order on immigration Monday that acts as somewhat of a revision to his Jan. 27 executive order that barred refugee resettlement for 120 days and immigration from seven, now six, Muslim-majority countries for a period of 90 days.
Mar 6, 2017
Two Vietnamese Christian Leaders Abducted, Beaten With Metal Rods
Two Christian pastors in Vietnam claim that they were kidnapped, stripped of their clothes, robbed and beaten with metal rods by security officers as they tried to make their way to the town of Ba Đồn to meet up with fellow activists subjected to recent police violence.
Mar 3, 2017
Episcopal Church Leaders Signal Support for Transgender Student in Supreme Court Case
Over 1,800 religious leaders, including those representing left-leaning Mainline denominations, have signed onto an amicus brief sent to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a Virginia transgender high school student who sued their school district for the right to use the boys' bathrooms and locker rooms.
Mar 3, 2017
Texas' Transgender Bill Not the Same as NC's HB 2, Says Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and a state lawmaker who introduced a bill that would require people to use public bathrooms based on their birth sex instead of the gender they choose to identify as on any given day, have laid out the differences between the Texas legislation and the highly controversial House Bill 2 signed into law last year in North Carolina.
Mar 3, 2017
10 MLB Players You Didn't Know Were Christian
With Major League Baseball's spring training now officially underway and the World Baseball Classic set to start next week, Associated Press sportswriter and author Rob Maadi has released a new book titled Baseball Faith: 52 MLB Stars Reflect on Their Faith.