Leonardo Blair
Senior Reporter
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.
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Tennessee pastor, step-daughter die after domestic shooting
Members of the Mosheim Church of God in Tennessee mourned the loss of their pastor, Kenneth Cook, on Sunday, after a domestic-related shooting at a Pilot gas station in White Pine.
In historic surgery, man gets new heart from genetically-modified pig
Faculty members at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore announced Monday that they successfully transplanted a genetically-modified pig heart into a human in a “first-in-the-world surgery,” giving hope as thousands are stuck on a transplant waiting list annually and die in the process.
Pastor whose church paid him nearly $390K in 1 year apologizes for not paying taxes, fraud
North Carolina Pastor Frank Jacobs, 51, who led the Rock Worship Center Church in Charlotte from at least 2009 to 2018 and Quest Church in Charlotte from at least 2019 to 2021, pleaded guilty to tax and wire fraud earlier last week.
Jamal Bryant among 25 faith leaders on hunger strike for voting rights
Megachurch pastor Jamal Bryant, who leads New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia, is among 25 faith leaders who have embarked on a hunger strike in a bid to push Congress to pass voting rights legislation by Martin L. King, Jr. Day on Jan. 17.
People uncertain about their relationship with God more likely to suffer mental distress: study
People who are uncertain about their relationship with God are more likely to experience mental distress than other believers, a new analysis from researchers at Union University and Westmont College suggests. Researchers W. Matthew Henderson and Blake Victor Kent conclude that “anxiety or a lack of certainty about one’s relationship with the divine represents a threat to psychological well-being.”
2 North Carolina churches merge to survive costly toll of pandemic
Two North Carolina congregations that have hemorrhaged members and donations during the pandemic will merge this Sunday in a bid to survive the toll of the coronavirus.
Pregnant women who cause deaths of unborn babies shouldn't be charged with murder, Calif. AG declares
California Attorney General Rob Bonta advised district attorneys, police chiefs and sheriffs across the state Thursday not to prosecute pregnant women whose actions lead to the miscarriage or stillbirth of a fetus.
Community turns to prayer as 8 children, 2 mothers among 12 killed in Philadelphia house fire
A Philadelphia neighborhood sought comfort in prayer and follow-up vigils Wednesday after eight children and two mothers died in a rowhouse fire as helpless neighbors were awakened by “blood-curdling” screams for help early in the morning.
Ransom paid for all missionaries kidnapped in Haiti but gang was divided on release: family member
A family member of several of the formerly kidnapped Christian Aid Ministries missionaries in Haiti said a ransom had already been paid for their release but the gang refused to set everyone free before the remaining 12 managed to escape.
‘Adored’ Michigan priest dies in crash day after 53rd birthday
Barely a day after celebrating his 53rd birthday on Sunday, Fr. David Hudgins, judicial vicar of the Diocese of Lansing and pastor of the St. Joseph Shrine in Brooklyn, Michigan, was killed in a car crash Monday, devastating family, friends and parishioners who “absolutely adored him.”
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