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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100 million women ‘missing’ worldwide trapped in sex slavery, killed by abortions or domestic violence
As many as 100 million women and girls are “missing and unaccounted for” as the quantitative impact of sex-selective abortions, sex slavery and horrific abuses against women, a new report has found.
Trump urged to condemn China's religious freedom abuses in trade talks
The Trump administration was strongly urged by a congressionally-mandated commission to bring up the continued persecution of Christians and religious minorities with China’s top trade negotiator during this week’s trade talks.
American churchgoers good at relationships but bad at discipling, poll finds
Most American churchgoers have no problem developing relationships at church but they are less likely to use their time to help fellow Christians grow in their faith, a new LifeWay Research poll suggests.
Benjamin Watson ends retirement, plans to join Tom Brady and New England Patriots
Outspoken pro-life Christian NFL player Benjamin Watson’s short-lived retirement has reportedly come to an end.
Museum of the Bible to unveil world's longest illustrated Bible on National Mall
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., has announced its plan to unfold a facsimile of what is believed to the world’s longest illustrated Bible along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall.
Planned Parenthood accused of creating shell company to deceive residents about new clinic
Black Christian leaders are accusing the nation’s largest abortion provider of using “false pretenses” to open a full-service abortion clinic in a neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina under the radar of concerned community members.
Cameroon pastor killed by military as violence against civilians continues in Anglophone crisis
A pastor was allegedly shot and killed by military forces in Southern Cameroon last month amid the ongoing violence in the country’s Anglophone regions.
Jerry Falwell Jr. denies report he got Trump's 'fixer' to bury embarrassing 'racy' photos
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. denied reports that President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen intervened in 2015 after someone obtained “personal” photographs the Falwell’s did not want to go public.
Chinese gov't agency hosts a seminar on 'enormous harm' of Christianity to China
A local government communications agency in China held a seminar in April to discuss with Communist Party members the “enormous harm” the growth of Christianity is to the atheist nation.
Asia Bibi leaves Pakistan to be reunited with daughters in Canada: reports
Reports have indicated that Pakistani Christian mother Asia Bibi (Aasiya Noreen), who spent years on death row, left Pakistan and arrived in Canada.