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 22, 2016
NFL Says Religious Freedom Bill Could Hurt Atlanta's Chances of Hosting Super Bowl
The National Football League says that Atlanta's chances of hosting a Super Bowl in the coming years could be hindered should the state of Georgia pass into law a religious freedom bill designed to protect faith-based organizations and clergy from government backlash over their opposition to same-sex marriage.
Mar 22, 2016
Surviving Nun Gives Eyewitness Account of ISIS' Brutal Massacre of Missionaries in Yemen
A nun who is the lone survivor of an Islamic State terrorist attack on a church-run retirement home in Yemen earlier this month has provided an eyewitness testimony of the massacre that took the lives of 16 civilians, including four nuns.
Mar 21, 2016
Girl Brutally Raped for 16 Months Reveals Horrifying Details of ISIS' Sex Slave 'Meat Market'
A Yazidi sex slave who was raped three times a day for over 16 month by various Islamic State fighters detailed in a recent interview how she was bought and sold by eight different jihadis and how the group sold off over 800 Yazidi girls inside a Raqqa "meat market."
Mar 21, 2016
Pakistani Christian Family Forced to Give Daughter Back to Muslim Man Who Kidnapped Her
A Pakistani Christian mother who was kidnapped and forced into an Islamic marriage with her Muslim landlord and then escaped months later has been returned to her abductor by her own family in hopes that it will spare them from extreme persecution and arrest.
Mar 21, 2016
Baptist Youth Pastor's Wife Says She's Wearing Hijab on Mondays to Show Solidarity With Muslims
A Baptist high school guidance counselor and youth pastor's wife in Missouri is wearing a hijab (Muslim headscarf) to school every Monday as a way of showing solidarity with Muslims and combating anti-Muslim rhetoric.
Mar 21, 2016
Wheaton College Names First Female Provost in School History Amid Plans to Adopt New Diversity Requirements
For the first time in Wheaton College's over 150-year history, the Illinois evangelical higher education institution has named a woman to be the school's provost.
Mar 18, 2016
Anglican School to Expose 4-Y-O Students to 'Transgender Day;' Parents Pull Children From Classes
Several parents in East Sussex, England are upset after learning of a teacher's plans to host a "transgender day" at a primary school to raise awareness about "gender issues," and at least three families have already indicated that they will pull their children from the school.
Mar 18, 2016
14-Y-O Christian Girl Kidnapped, Forced Into Sex Slavery for 7 Mo. in Nigeria Speaks About Her Abduction
A Christian schoolgirl who was kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery by her Muslim captors in Nigeria has opened up about the terror she endured over the last seven months.
Mar 18, 2016
US Must Resettle 50K Syrian Christians, Religious Minorities Facing 'Genocide,' New Senate Bill Proposes
Hours after Sec. of State John Kerry declared that the Islamic State is committing genocide against Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq and Syria, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced a bill to prioritize Christian and religious minorities in the United States' Syrian refugee resettlement program.
Mar 18, 2016
#NeverTrump Conservatives Discuss Options: Contested Convention or Third-Party?
A group of prominent conservative activists and operatives from across the country gathered Thursday morning to discuss building a conservative "unity ticket" to stop Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump from winning the GOP nomination.