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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Christian Rep. Lauren Boebert says insult of Rep. Ilhan Omar ‘isn’t about religion’
Christian Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado defended herself as a “strong Christian woman” who never wants to “offend someone’s religion” Monday hours after a botched attempt to apologize to Democrat Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for suggesting in a viral video that the hijab-wearing politician could be a suicide bomber.
Human trafficking lawsuit claims Mennonite teens suffered mental and physical abuse on farm
The Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church and associated entities have been accused in a federal lawsuit of exploiting Mennonite boys and young men through a program they claimed would reform “troubled boys” but caused them physical and mental harm instead.
Pastor, marriage counselor resigns after preaching ‘the best person to rape is your wife’
Burnett L. Robinson, a New York pastor and marriage counselor who has spent more than 35 years in ministry, apologized and resigned from his post at the Grand Concourse Seventh-day Adventist Church last Wednesday after he declared in a sermon that “the best person to rape is your wife.”
Christian Aid Ministries continues work in Haiti despite abduction of missionaries by gang
The staff of the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries has been praying day and night for the safe return of 15 of their 17 missionaries kidnapped by the notorious 400 Mawozo gang in Haiti while continuing to work through the crisis, the international organization said.
Missionaries released in Haiti were 2 sick adults, no ransom was paid: report
Two of the 17 missionaries recently released in Haiti were sick adults and no ransom was paid despite threats from the leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that volunteers of the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries would be killed if they did not receive $1 million each for their release, a new report suggests.
Man vows to stand guard every day at Baltimore church after grandmother is murdered inside
A 53-year-old Baltimore man who says he's dissatisfied with the mayor’s crime plan has vowed to stand guard outside the Southern Baptist Church where Evelyn Player, a 69-year-old church worker, was murdered last Tuesday, to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
Megachurch pastor coerced girls, women to have sex with him under threat of ‘eternal damnation': DOJ
Claiming that sex with him was a “privilege” and “God’s will,” controversial megachurch pastor and founder of the Philippines-based Kingdom of Jesus Christ Church, Apollo Quiboloy, and two of his top administrators have been charged with trafficking young women and girls in the U.S. who were coerced into having sex with him under threats of “eternal damnation.”
Matt Hagee apologizes for ‘Let’s go Brandon’ chant at event hosted at Cornerstone Church
A week after the audience at a conference being hosted at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, were led into chants of “Let’s go Brandon," a euphemism for an insult aimed at President Joe Biden, Matt Hagee, the church’s pastor and son of founding pastor, John Hagee, has apologized.
After praying, judge finds jail ‘inappropriate’ for man convicted of raping, sexually assaulting 4 teen girls
Matthew J. Murphy III, a judge working in the Niagara County Court system in New York said he “prayed” Wednesday before deciding jail wasn’t an “appropriate” place for a now 20-year-old man who raped and sexually assaulted four teenage girls when he was 16 and 17.
Woman killed inside church may have come early to pray, pastor says; Maryland gov. offers $100K reward
Evelyn Player, a 69-year-old retiree who was found murdered inside the Southern Baptist Church in East Baltimore on Tuesday, might have arrived at the church early to pray, her pastor said. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has offered a $100,000 reward to help solve her murder.
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