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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Apr 23, 2020
Louisville church drops lawsuit after mayor allows drive-in worship services
On Fire Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, has come to an agreement with city officials to end its lawsuit against an order that banned churches from holding drive-in worship services.
Apr 23, 2020
Protestant families in Mexico denied water access, kids barred from school: NGO
Some Protestant minority families from indigenous communities in Mexico are being denied access to crucial utilities like water and electricity while some kids are denied access to school, a new report from an international Christian persecution watchdog warns.
Apr 22, 2020
Iran sentences Christian woman to 3 months in prison, 10 lashes for protesting regime
Iranian Christian convert and human rights activist Mary Mohammadi has been sentenced to three months and prison and torture for protesting the government’s downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January.
Apr 22, 2020
Christian group calls on churches to resume in-person services on May 3
A national Christian conservative legal nonprofit is calling on churches nationwide to resume in-person worship services while taking appropriate safety precautions on May 3, arguing that “now is the time to act” after weeks of in-person services being suspended due to COVID-19.
Apr 22, 2020
Trump says Christian faith 'treated very unfairly' during COVID-19 pandemic
President Donald Trump said over the weekend that the Christian faith is being “treated very unfairly” during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as state and local governments have enforced social distancing against church gatherings.
Apr 21, 2020
Army brigade removes chaplains’ Facebook videos on prayer during COVID-19 following complaints
Videos produced by chaplains encouraging service members and their families to pray during the COVID-19 crisis were removed from the official Facebook page of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division Sustainment Brigade at Fort Drum, New York, following a complaint.
Apr 21, 2020
Tony Spell arrested for aggravated assault after backing church bus toward protester
Controversial Louisiana pastor Tony Spell, who has defied state stay-at-home orders by holding church services, has been arrested for aggravated assault after he allegedly backed up a church bus toward a protester.
Apr 21, 2020
'Pastor' to plead guilty to $33M church-based investment scam
A man claiming to be a pastor in California will plead guilty to organizing an investment scam using the guise of a church to swindle over $33 million away from investors, primarily from Orange County’s Vietnamese community. He could face over two decades in prison.
Apr 21, 2020
Nigerian Christian student killed, 2 villagers abducted by suspected Fulani radicals
A Christian college student was reportedly shot and killed by radical Fulani herdsmen during a raid on a village in the Nigerian state of Kaduna last Thursday, about a week after a pastor was stabbed to death in his church in southern Nigeria.
Apr 20, 2020
Baylor, TCU deny recognition to conservative student group Turning Point USA
Christian higher education institutions Baylor University and Texas Christian University have both reportedly denied official campus recognition to chapters of the national conservative student organization Turning Point USA, which is active on hundreds of college campuses.