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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Large toy retailers must have gender-neutral section or face fines under new California law
Beginning Jan. 1, 2024, retailers in California who sell childcare items or toys and have 500 or more employees will face fines of up to $500 if they fail to “maintain a gender-neutral section or area” according to a new bill signed into law by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday.
Lakewood Church says it never sought forgiveness for $4.4M PPP loan
The Joel Osteen-led Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, which came under fire from the public last December for accepting $4.4 million from the federal government’s coronavirus relief program for small businesses known as the Paycheck Protection Program, said it never sought forgiveness for “the temporary assistance received.”
At 110, Viola Brown credits faith for helping her through wars, pandemics and segregation
Viola Roberts Lampkin Brown was an infant when the “Titanic” sank into the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. She was not yet 3 when World War I began. She was still 6 when the Flu pandemic started in February 1918. And by the time she was 7, Brown was working as a domestic and would spend decades living through segregation.
Federal judge blocks Texas abortion law drawing praise from Biden admin., rebuke from pro-lifers
A federal judge on Wednesday granted a request from the Justice Department for a temporary restraining order against Texas’ controversial law that bans most abortions in the state after six weeks gestation, drawing swift praise from the Biden administration and rebuke from pro-life advocates.
New lawsuit challenges NY vaccine mandate, cites Gov. Hochul's comments at megachurch
A new federal lawsuit backed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., founder and chairman of anti-vaccine advocacy group Children's Health Defense, is challenging New York’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for healthcare workers for not allowing a religious exemption, citing Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent comments at a Brooklyn megachurch.
Vatican diplomat warns US leaders against exploiting God at Red Mass
As the U.S. Supreme Court began a new term in which it will be hearing an abortion case that could overrule Roe v. Wade, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, warned U.S. leaders against exploiting God and justice for selfish means like the Pharisees in the Bible.
‘Indifference is killing us’: SBC Pres. Ed Litton tells pastors at racial reconciliation event
President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Ed Litton, warned an audience that gathered for a racial reconciliation event at his Redemption Church in Mobile, Alabama, that “indifference is killing us” and in order to overcome racial prejudice, “we outta go and work at it.”
Andrew Yang quits Democratic Party, warns ‘polarization is getting worse than ever’
Former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang who also failed in his bid to become the next mayor of New York City this year, announced Monday that he has broken up with the Democratic Party to join America’s largest voting bloc of independents because politics has become too polarizing.
Hillsong's Brian Houston denies concealing father’s alleged abuse of boy
Hillsong Church’s founder and Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston denied allegations in court Tuesday that he concealed his late father’s sex abuse of a young boy during the 1970s shielding him from criminal prosecution.
Christian teen brothers charged with attempted murder of mother, church ‘praying for all involved’
A 16-year-old homeschooled Christian boy and his 13-year-old brother were arrested in Elverta, California, last Monday for attempting to murder their mother and 10-year-old brother, who have been hospitalized and are in critical condition, police say.
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