Samuel Smith

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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  • Iran's Ayatollah Declines to Help US Coalition Fight ISIS

    Iran's Ayatollah Declines to Help US Coalition Fight ISIS

    Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei put to rest on Monday any speculation that his country would be partnering in anyway with the U.S. and its allies in defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

  • Syrian Rebel Groups Alleged to Have Reached a Ceasefire With ISIS in Damascus

    Syrian Rebel Groups Alleged to Have Reached a Ceasefire With ISIS in Damascus

    Although a group closely monitoring the Syrian civil war claimed last Friday that moderate and Islamist Syrian rebels near Damascus agreed upon a ceasefire with Islamic State militants, a Syrian National Coalition official said Saturday that no such truce has been reached between ISIS and U.S.-vetted rebel forces.

  • Obama Administration Denies Threatening Family of Journalist Killed by ISIS

    Obama Administration Denies Threatening Family of Journalist Killed by ISIS

    In response to the criticisms from the families of the two slain American journalists that the Obama administration "threatened" repeatedly to prosecute them if they paid the ransoms to save their loved ones from the sword of the Islamic State, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said Sunday that the administration did not threaten the families but rather warned them of law.

  • Obama ISIS Strategy Heavily Criticized by GOP, Senate Dems, Pentagon Official

    Obama ISIS Strategy Heavily Criticized by GOP, Senate Dems, Pentagon Official

    President Barack Obama said with confidence in Wednesday night's prime-time presidential address that he labels hunting down terrorists organizations like the Islamic State to be a "core principle" of his presidency. However, the plan Obama presented the nation to combat the terrorist group ISIS, also known as ISIL, in Syria and Iraq has received heavy criticism from both sides of the political aisle and from ranking officials in the Defense Department.

  • Republican Candidates Starting to Respond to Common Core Opposition

    Republican Candidates Starting to Respond to Common Core Opposition

    With opposition to Common Core gaining ground in the electorate, some politicians are beginning to respond.

  • Without Christian Presence in Mideast, There'll Be Less Charity, Says Mideast Christian Leader

    Without Christian Presence in Mideast, There'll Be Less Charity, Says Mideast Christian Leader

    In response to the plight of Middle East Christians fleeing from their homes in the wake of extremism and terror brought by the Islamic State and other terrorists groups, Christian leaders and advocates called on modern Muslim community leaders against radical Islam and warned that the plight of Christians could have disastrous consequences in the Middle East.

  • US Should Give Kurds Weapons to Fight ISIS, Says Mideast Christian Leaders

    US Should Give Kurds Weapons to Fight ISIS, Says Mideast Christian Leaders

    Patriarchs from the Middle East gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday urging members of Congress to provide further support to Iraqi central government and supply weapons to Kurdish Peshmerga forces that are helping provide refuge to thousands of displaced Iraqi Christians that are being persecuted by Islamic State jihadists.

  • ISIS' 'Cultural Cleansing' of Mideast Christians Ignored by Complacent Americans, Robert George Complains

    ISIS' 'Cultural Cleansing' of Mideast Christians Ignored by Complacent Americans, Robert George Complains

    As thousands of Christians in Iraq and Syria, and other parts of the Middle East, are being tosed from their homes, killed, raped and pillaged by Islamic State forces and other terrorist organizations, Princeton law professor Robert George claims that Christians in America and other westernized nations are too complacent to speak out against the persecution in the Middle East and urge their governments to take action.

  • Benghazi Attack: Contractors Say They Were Told to 'Stand Down' From Saving Amb. Stevens by CIA Officials

    Benghazi Attack: Contractors Say They Were Told to 'Stand Down' From Saving Amb. Stevens by CIA Officials

    In a new book released Tuesday highlighting the events of the Sept. 11, 2012 Islamic militant attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the CIA security contractors that responded and defended the compound claim that they could have saved the life of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and U.S. Foreign Information Management Services Officer Sean Smith had the team not been delayed at the Benghazi CIA Annex for over a half an hour by the top CIA Officer in Benghazi.

  • Can Republicans Take Back Control of The Senate?

    Can Republicans Take Back Control of The Senate?

    New polling shows that the Republicans hold a slight edge over Democrats in enough key midterm Senate races to give the GOP control of the Senate.

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