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.
The recent arrests of senior church leaders in the world’s first Christian nation are effectively silencing clergy from one of the world’s oldest churches and could hinder Armenia’s growing relationship with the United States, human rights experts warned in a bid to raise the awareness of lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Several families displaced by ethnic cleansing in their ancient Christian homeland more than two years ago were given new homes and plots of land on Tuesday through a charitable initiative seeking to help revitalize a rural Armenian mountain village.
Leaders with the Artsakh government-in-exile are voicing their displeasure in the wake of the Aug. 8 peace agreement and memorandum of understanding between Armenia and Azerbaijan brokered by President Donald Trump at the White House, feeling the terms leave the people of Artsakh behind and solidify the injustices carried out against them under the leadership of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev's regime.
Alveda King shared a message of hope with young kindred spirits over 6,000 miles away from her home, in Armenia, bonding over their shared use of art as a means to process the pain in their lives.
The plight of Armenian Christian families forced from their ancestral homeland in 2023 has fallen on many deaf ears in the last two years, but organizations are hoping to mobilize Evangelical Christians in the U.S. to help their suffering brothers and sisters in Christ.
The International House of Prayer in Kansas City has cut ties with its founder, Mike Bickle, after receiving new information related to allegations of clergy abuse against him.
City leaders in Nashville, Tennessee, are mourning the death of a 49-year-old Nashville pastor who is widely known for helping lead at-risk teenagers and former gang members away from a life of crime.
The northern California Pentecostal megachurch Destiny Christian Church has preliminarily agreed to assume leadership of Sacramento’s Capital Christian Center, which is suffering from the “destabilization of its financial foundation” and faces allegations of abuse cover-up against its founder.
Nearly 100 United Methodist Church congregations in Louisiana had their disaffiliation votes ratified by the regional conference last weekend, joining hundreds of others nationwide that have left the mainline Protestant denomination in the last year amid a schism over homosexuality.
A federal judge in Texas suspended the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of the chemical abortion pill nationwide Friday. Not long after, a federal judge in Washington state issued an opposite ruling that could force the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in.
