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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Speaking on a panel discussion at the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference, Muslim reformer Asra Nomani offered her thoughts on the similarities between “communism” and “Islamism” as both ideologies try to squash religious freedom.
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A 65-year-old Iranian Christian convert who was sentenced to three years in prison for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs” in January has been sentenced to two more years in prison while nine other converts lost appeals of their five-year sentences.
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An interactive satellite television program is giving a platform to Iran’s “secret” Christians to share their stories of hope with the outside world as the underground church in the Islamic Republic continues to grow.
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The wife of a Malaysian pastor who was abducted in 2017 is among 12 women honored Wednesday with the U.S. State Department’s International Women of Courage Award.
High school football coach fired for praying after games loses again in federal court
After the U.S. Supreme Court sent his case back to a lower court last year, a federal judge ruled this week that a school district in Washington state was within its right to prohibit high school football coach Joe Kennedy from kneeling in prayer on the 50-yard-line after games.
Muslims' fear of losing citizenship in India is 'genuine,' lawyer tells USCIRF
Over a week after President Donald Trump praised India Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his commitment to promoting religious freedom, experts issued dire warnings to the United States’ top religious freedom body about the future for Muslims in the Hindu-majority country.
Evangelicals view Supreme Court most favorably amid big term for religious freedom cases: poll
With the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear a handful of religious freedom-related cases in 2020, a new report from Pew Research suggests that Christians are more likely than religiously unaffiliated Americans to hold a positive view of the nation’s high court.
Mike Pence mocked for praying with coronavirus task force at White House
Vice President Mike Pence received a new round of criticism this week by some on the political left after the White House released a picture of the vice president praying with the coronavirus task force in his West Wing office.
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