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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Oct 20, 2016
Christian Parents Fight 'After School Satan Club' Opening at Washington Elementary School
Christian parents in Tacoma, Washington, are speaking out against plans to launch an "After School Satan Club" at a neighborhood elementary school.
Oct 20, 2016
Displaced Iraqi Christians Fearful of Returning Home Even After ISIS Is Defeated, Says Christian Aid Worker
As Iraqi-led forces continue to press forward toward Mosul to push the Islamic State out of the country's second-largest city, forces East of the city have besieged Qaraqosh, a town 20 miles Southeast of Mosul that was once home to Iraq's largest Christian community.
Oct 20, 2016
Youth Pastor Charged With Prostituting Teenage Boys, Drugging Them With Crystal Meth
A Florida youth pastor has been arrested and charged with forcing four teenage boys into prostitution by telling them that they could make money modeling and threatening them if they didn't agree to have sex with male clients he met on the internet.
Oct 19, 2016
80 Percent of Christians Have Been Forced to Flee Iraq Since 2003, Says Head of Open Doors UK
As conflicts in Iraq and Syria have forced millions of residents to flee their homes over the last several years, a leading Christian persecution activist has explained that over 80 percent of Christians have left Iraq in the last 13 years, while nearly half of all Christians have fled Syria since 2010.
Oct 19, 2016
Companies Illegally Profited From Selling Planned Parenthood's Aborted Babies' Body Parts, Calif. DA Says in Lawsuit
The district attorney in Orange County, California has filed a lawsuit against two biomedical procurement companies and has accused them of turning illegal lucrative profits from the sales of aborted baby body parts acquired from Planned Parenthood clinics.
Oct 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump: Abortion
While Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton prides herself on being one of the biggest supporters of abortion and the nation's largest abortion provider Planned Parenthood, her Republican counterpart Donald Trump has made it clear that he will be no friend to the abortion industry if he wins the Oval Office.
Oct 18, 2016
Hillsong NYC's Carl Lentz Tells Oprah What He Thinks Is The 'Root of Racism'
Hillsong NYC pastor Carl Lentz was recently interviewed by television star Oprah Winfrey on her SuperSoul Sunday talk show program and described what he believes is the "root of racism" in America today.
Oct 18, 2016
Refugees Flying ISIS Flag Is Totally Legal in Sweden, Prosecutor Rules
A Swedish prosecutor has ruled that flying the Islamic State's black flag is perfectly legal and does not constitute a hate crime, even though the terrorist group strives to kill all non-Muslims and others who oppose its violent brand of Sunni Islam.
Oct 18, 2016
States Can Force Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Inform Women About Gov't-Funded Abortions, Federal Court Rules
A United States federal appeals court has upheld a California law that opponents say infringes upon the free speech and religious freedom rights of pro-life pregnancy centers by forcing them to inform pregnant mothers and families about the option of abortion.
Oct 17, 2016
ISIS Jihadi Video Tapes Beheading of His Own Father
An Islamic State militant in the group's largest Iraqi stronghold of Mosul beheaded his own father for allegedly insulting the barbaric terrorist group's leader.