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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ISIS Offers 5-Minute Speed Dating Service to Help Militants Find Jihadi Brides
The Islamic State terrorist organization in Syria is now offering 5-minute speed dating services to attract more disenfranchised Western women to the caliphate and to become jihadi brides.
NC City Forced to Remove 'Christian' Praying Soldier Veterans' Memorial; Unable to Pay $2 Million to Battle Secular Group
A North Carolina town has finally thrown in the towel on a years-long court battle by agreeing to remove a veterans' memorial statue from its central park that featured a praying soldier kneeling before a cross and a Christian flag.
Evangelical Teacher Fired for Giving Bible to Student Supported By Gov't Commission
A New Jersey school district broke the law when it fired a substitute teacher after he gave a curious middle school student a Bible for academic purposes, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled in a mid-December decision released to the public this week.
Republicans Waste No Time Introducing Pro-Life Legislation in New Congress; New Pain-Capable Bill Would Prevent Abortions After 20 Weeks
With two House Republicans introducing a bill on Tuesday that would ban legal abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the GOP has wasted little time in introducing pro-life legislation that is likely to be voted on in the Senate with Republicans controlling both Houses.
Pakistani Muslim Beats Christian Mother With Bat After She Prevented Man From Abducting, Raping Daughter
Two Christian women were aggressively beaten by a Muslim man in the Pakistani capital of Lahore after the women prevented the attacker from abducting the daughter of one of the women.
ISIS Cyber Caliphate Hacks US Media Outlets; Terrorists Threaten Tennessee With Next Attack: 'Citizens of Tennessee! We Are Watching You!'
Internet hackers, claiming to be associated with the Islamic State terrorist organization, have conducted a series of hacks on various news outlets in the United States and their social media accounts this week, which are being investigated by the FBI.
Cocaine Found in Slain ISIS Commander's Home Indicates Heavy Drug Use Among Jihadists, Despite Being Violation of Sharia Law
After killing an important Islamic State leader in battle, Kurdish forces in Syria found a huge bag of cocaine in the slain commander's home, providing further speculation that militants often use narcotics despite the fact that ISIS police units strictly enforce drug bans inside the group's strongholds.
ISIS Kills High-Ranking Saudi Border Officer in Suicide Attack After Failed Infiltration Attempt; Saudi Arabia Fertile Ground for ISIS Recruitment?
The Islamic State is claiming responsibility for an early Monday morning altercation involving four militants and a Saudi border patrol post on the Iraq-Saudi Arabia border that left three Saudi border officers dead and two injured, marking the first documented attempt at infiltration into Saudi Arabia by ISIS operations in Iraq.
Beheader Becomes the Beheaded: Body of Key ISIS Police Official Found Decapitated With Cigarette in Mouth
The body of a high-ranking official in the Islamic State's self-proclaimed police force in Syria, a unit well-known for conducting beheadings, was found beheaded, a monitoring agency reported Tuesday.
Financially Strapped Church Music Director With Baby Having Rare Brain Disease Jailed for Inability to Pay Expired Tag Court Fee
Although the U.S. Constitution states that impoverished citizens can not be jailed because of their inability to pay fines and other debts, a church music director in Alabama and his wife were jailed because they were incapable of paying court costs that stemmed from expired license plate violations.