
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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Planned Parenthood accused of creating shell company to deceive residents about new clinic
Black Christian leaders are accusing the nation’s largest abortion provider of using “false pretenses” to open a full-service abortion clinic in a neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina under the radar of concerned community members.

Cameroon pastor killed by military as violence against civilians continues in Anglophone crisis
A pastor was allegedly shot and killed by military forces in Southern Cameroon last month amid the ongoing violence in the country’s Anglophone regions.

Jerry Falwell Jr. denies report he got Trump's 'fixer' to bury embarrassing 'racy' photos
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. denied reports that President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen intervened in 2015 after someone obtained “personal” photographs the Falwell’s did not want to go public.

Chinese gov't agency hosts a seminar on 'enormous harm' of Christianity to China
A local government communications agency in China held a seminar in April to discuss with Communist Party members the “enormous harm” the growth of Christianity is to the atheist nation.

Asia Bibi leaves Pakistan to be reunited with daughters in Canada: reports
Reports have indicated that Pakistani Christian mother Asia Bibi (Aasiya Noreen), who spent years on death row, left Pakistan and arrived in Canada.

Boko Haram kidnaps pastor, churchgoers on their way to evangelize and deliver aid
Suspected members of Boko Haram have reportedly kidnapped a pastor, a Christian relief worker and members of Living Faith Church while on their way to deliver relief supplies and evangelize in the northeast Borno State.

HBO releases trailer for new televangelist comedy series 'The Righteous Gemstones'
HBO released a teaser for a new comedy series that centers around the lives a grandfather-father-son trio who carry on the family legacy as televangelist megachurch pastors — complete with crude humor and private jets.

Iranian intelligence minister concerned with growth of Christianity; converts summoned
Iran’s intelligence minister, Mahmoud Mahmoud Alavi, openly expressed concern last weekend about the spread of Christianity in the Islamic republic and said that some converts to Christianity were “summoned” to explain why they have converted.

Evangelical-supported charity looking to secure every vulnerable synagogue in the world
An evangelical-backed philanthropic organization has announced an effort to help every vulnerable synagogue in the world protect themselves as extremist attacks against synagogues and other places of worship are becoming all too frequent.

North Korean defector details decade of abuse, forced labor at orphanage
A North Korean defector recounted Thursday the “hell” she experienced during a decade full of abuse, starvation and enslavement as an orphan in the rogue nation, a fate that too many children are still experiencing today under the Kim regime.



















