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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Wife of abducted Malaysian pastor Raymond Koh honored as 'Woman of Courage' by State Dept.
The wife of a Malaysian pastor who was abducted in 2017 is among 12 women honored Wednesday with the U.S. State Department’s International Women of Courage Award.
High school football coach fired for praying after games loses again in federal court
After the U.S. Supreme Court sent his case back to a lower court last year, a federal judge ruled this week that a school district in Washington state was within its right to prohibit high school football coach Joe Kennedy from kneeling in prayer on the 50-yard-line after games.
Muslims' fear of losing citizenship in India is 'genuine,' lawyer tells USCIRF
Over a week after President Donald Trump praised India Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his commitment to promoting religious freedom, experts issued dire warnings to the United States’ top religious freedom body about the future for Muslims in the Hindu-majority country.
Evangelicals view Supreme Court most favorably amid big term for religious freedom cases: poll
With the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear a handful of religious freedom-related cases in 2020, a new report from Pew Research suggests that Christians are more likely than religiously unaffiliated Americans to hold a positive view of the nation’s high court.
Mike Pence mocked for praying with coronavirus task force at White House
Vice President Mike Pence received a new round of criticism this week by some on the political left after the White House released a picture of the vice president praying with the coronavirus task force in his West Wing office.
Pakistani Christian man tortured to death for bathing in well water; family wants justice
A 22-year-old Christian man was beaten to death in Pakistan’s Punjab province by men who accused him of “contaminating” water in a well owned by a Muslim farmer.
Televangelist wonders if liberal whitewashing of sin is the 'Great Apostasy' before Christ's return
Georgia megachurch pastor and televangelist Michael Youssef fears that the tendency today among some Christian leaders to water down the Gospel to make it “palatable” for today’s culture could be a sign of the “great apostasy before the return of Christ.”
'Great Awokening': CPAC panelist says 'woke' culture is seeking 'salvation from the mob'
A panelist at the 2020 Conservative Political Action Conference warned Friday that being “woke” is like seeking “salvation from the mob” as liberal activists are promoting “authoritarianism” to push their political agenda.
Asia Bibi says imprisonment was a 'trial sent by God,' refused to renounce her faith
During a trip to France to promote her new book, Christian mother Asia Bibi opened up about how prayer and Scripture sustained her throughout a decade of imprisonment over allegations that she insulted Islam and its prophet, Muhammad.
Christian college recruiter fired for lining students up by skin color, 'nappiest' hair
An admissions counselor for Oklahoma Christian University was fired after allegedly forcing 11th-grade students at a preparatory school in Oklahoma City to line up according to skin color and “nappiest” hair during a gym assembly visit.
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