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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Oct 6, 2017
Jeff Sessions Issues Sweeping Religious Freedom Guidance to All Federal Agencies
Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions is instructing all federal agencies to ensure to the "greatest extent practicable and permitted by law" that the religious beliefs of people, businesses, churches and other organizations are accommodated and not burdened by the federal government.
Oct 6, 2017
UK Catholic Girls School Tells Students to Use Transgender Pronouns
A parent has voiced outrage after a Catholic girls school in the United Kingdom told parents that students are expected to use the preferred pronouns and names of transgender classmates.
Oct 5, 2017
Christian Funeral Home Defends Right to Fire Transgender Employee in Appeals Court
A federal appeals court on Wednesday heard an employment discrimination lawsuit filed against a Christian funeral home owner in Michigan after he fired a transgender employee who was transitioning from male to female and requested to wear women's clothing.
Oct 5, 2017
Kidnapped Priest Tom Uzhunnalil to Receive Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice
The Indian priest who was kidnapped and held hostage by Islamic extremists in Yemen for over 18 months before he was released last month will be awarded the Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice.
Oct 5, 2017
Michelle Qureshi Vows to Continue Her Late Husband Nabeel's Ministry
The wife of the late Christian apologist and best-selling author Nabeel Qureshi has vowed to continue her late husband's online ministry.
Oct 4, 2017
Princeton U Student Group Drops 'Evangelical' From Name Fearing Negative Connotation
A Princeton University student group has dropped the word "evangelical" from its name because its members feel that the word now has a negative perception in today's society.
Oct 4, 2017
'US Taxpayers Are Financing Spoils of Genocide,' Iraqi Archdiocese Lawyer Tells Congress
A lawyer who represents the Chaldean Archdiocese of Erbil has accused the United States government of "financing the spoils of genocide" through its reconstruction aid program that he says has benefited Muslims who settled into a once predominantly Iraqi Christian town following the rise of the Islamic State.
Oct 4, 2017
Congressman Tim Murphy, Who Says He's Pro-Life, Asked Mistress to Have Abortion, Report Claims
Pro-life Republican congressman Tim Murphy is facing heat after it was reported that he encouraged his married mistress to get an abortion when it was believed that she was pregnant.
Oct 4, 2017
ISIS Sex Slave Survivor Tells Congress About Horrors of Her Captivity: 'It Was Like Hell'
A Yazidi victim of the Islamic State's genocide in Iraq detailed for members of the United States Congress Tuesday afternoon the horrors she experienced during the nine months that was held as a slave.
Oct 3, 2017
Christian Flight Attendant Fired Over Opposition to Union's Support of Women's March, Lawsuit Claims
A former Southwest Airlines flight attendant has filed a lawsuit and a complaint with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claiming that she was fired for voicing religious opposition to her union dues being used to fly union members to the pro-abortion Women's March on Washington in January.