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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Jun 19, 2017
22-Y-O American Otto Warmbier Dies After Spending 17 Months in North Korean Prison
Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student who was imprisoned by North Korea for over 17 months and was released last week while in a coma, has died, his family announced Monday.
Jun 19, 2017
Jeff Sessions Defends Sentencing Memo: Violent Crime Increased Under Obama's Policies
Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions has defended his controversial sentencing memorandum in an op-ed published Sunday that accuses Obama-era leniency on drug crimes of fostering an increase in drug abuse and violent crimes in the United States.
Jun 19, 2017
Christian Dad Arrested for Blasphemy After Demanding Pay From Muslim for Repaired Bike
A Pakistani Christian man has reportedly been arrested on charges of blasphemy after a Muslim man accused him of insulting the Muslim prophet when asking to be paid for a bicycle that he had repaired last week.
Jun 19, 2017
LGBT Groups: Conservative Christians 'Have No Place in Government'
LGBT activist groups are outraged that the Trump administration's Department of Education invited speakers from two prominent conservative Christian family organizations to participate in a panel discussion on fatherhood held in advance of Father's Day last week.
Jun 19, 2017
MLB Team Defends Decision to Invite This Former All-Star for 'Christian Day'
The St. Louis Cardinals Major League Baseball team is sticking by its decision to invite former all-star Lance Berkman to share his faith at Busch Stadium's upcoming "Christian Day," a move that angered the LGBT community because of the slugger's opposition to a transgender bathroom ordinance defeated two years ago in Houston.
Jun 19, 2017
Trump Admin. Says Schools Can Be Investigated for Wrong Pronoun Use for Transgender Students
The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has issued an internal memo explaining that refusal by public schools or teachers to refer to a transgender student by his or her preferred pronoun or name could be grounds for an investigation.
Jun 18, 2017
NFL Star Ben Watson: America Is 'Reaping the Consequences of Fatherlessness'
As America celebrates Father's Day 2017, Baltimore Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson has issued a reminder that the nation is currently suffering from the dire effects of "fatherlessness" and asserted that Satan would love nothing more than to keep dads from connecting with their children.
Jun 17, 2017
Catholic Nun, Schoolgirls Arrested in India on False Conversion Complaint by Hindu Radicals
A Catholic nun and four tribal girls were arrested in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh after authorities received a complaint of forced conversion from a local hardline Hindu activist.
Jun 16, 2017
ISIS Used Mosul Church as Site to Rape and Imprison 200 Girls, Gov't Official Says
Islamic State militants used one of northern Iraq's largest Christian sites to imprison and abuse as many as 200 Yazidi girls and women as sex slaves, an Iraqi military official has said.
Jun 16, 2017
Deportation of Iraqi Christians 'Worse' Than Rejecting Jewish Holocaust Refugees, Chaldean Bishop Says
As religious figures have voiced their concerns with the Trump administration's efforts to deport dozens of Iraqi Christians, one Chaldean bishop has compared the roundup and possible deportation of Iraqi nationals to the United States' refusal to allow Jewish refugees facing genocide into the country during the Holocaust.