Leonardo Blair is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer whose career spanned secular media in the Caribbean and New York City prior to joining The Christian Post in 2013. His early work with CP focusing on crime and Christian society quickly attracted international attention when he exposed a campaign by Creflo Dollar Ministries in 2015 to raise money from supporters to purchase a $65 million luxury jet. He continues to report extensively on church crimes, spiritual abuse, mental health, the black church and major events impacting Christian culture.
He is a 2007 alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was an inaugural member of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York City.
New York Yankees Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera and his wife Clara have been accused in a bombshell lawsuit of covering up the sexual abuse of a minor in their home and a 2018 summer camp connected to an Assemblies of God church they founded in 2009 known as the Refugio De Esperanza or the Refuge of Hope.
The teenager who fatally shot one student and injured another before taking his own life inside the cafeteria of Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday has been identified by authorities as Solomon Henderson, a Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadet who allegedly left behind a dark manifesto explaining his motives.
After delivering a standout prayer during President Donald Trump's second inauguration on Monday, invoking Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech, Pastor Lorenzo Sewell of 180 Church in Detroit, Michigan, has sparked a heated debate about his style and sincerity as a man of God.
Antioch High School, located some 12 miles southeast of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, has been placed under lockdown following a shooting Wednesday that left three people injured, including a student suspected of shooting himself.
Though some churchgoers might prefer their pastor to be kind, confident, humble, bold or motivating when preaching from the pulpit, the one trait they crave most is honesty, according to a new study from Barna.
On the eve of the inauguration of President Donald Trump and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, outgoing President Joe Biden heralded Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy as his political heroes on his last full day in office at a historic black church in South Carolina where he prayed before he was elected in 2020.
The United States arm of the Catholic Church paid more than $5 billion over 20 years for costs related to allegations of sexual abuse of minors by priests and deacons, according to a study by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Among the flock of Evangelical leaders attending President-elect Donald Trump's second inauguration in Washington, D.C., next Monday will be the leader of what purports to be the world's third-largest Protestant church, Rev. William F. Kumuyi.
Michael Howard, a former member of TrueSong — the resident musical act of the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky — was charged with 80 counts of sexual abuse and sodomy of a teenager who was also a member of a church where he served as worship leader.
Adults in 36 countries around the world, including the United States, hold a bleak view of what the future holds for their children economically, with more than half expecting that kids today will be worse off than their parents amid growing income inequality, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.
