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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Married Hillsong Church administrator sexually assaulted Philadelphia pastor’s daughter: report
Around the time they received complaints about inappropriate sexual relations between staff and volunteers at Hillsong NYC, the embattled Australia-based Hillsong Church was in the throes of investigating a sexual assault of a pastor’s daughter at its headquarters a new report reveals.
Defiant Paula White slams Christian establishment: ‘Your opinion doesn’t matter’
Former President Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White has slammed the American Christian establishment for mischaracterizing her and her ministry, singling out the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission head Russell Moore for branding her a “heretic.”
Husband and wife founders of Miami megachurch spar over possible $120M estate in messy divorce
Apostle Guillermo Maldonado and Prophetess Ana Maldonado, the husband and wife team that birthed the Miami-based King Jesus International Ministry, one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing Hispanic churches, are now sparring over an estate court papers say could be worth as much as $120 million.
Kenneth Copeland doesn’t believe coronavirus can kill televangelist friend Frederick KC Price
After a weekslong bout with COVID-19 left famed televangelist Frederick KC Price hospitalized with a ravaged heart, lungs and kidneys sparking a global call for prayers, fellow televangelist Kenneth Copeland says he doesn’t believe the disease can kill his longtime friend.
Sanitation worker thanks God for helping him save 10-y-o girl from sex offender
An emotional Louisiana sanitation worker praised God profusely Monday for helping him save a 10-year-old girl from a registered sex offender who police allege abducted her a day earlier.
Former real estate broker John Termini steps up to help lead Hillsong NYC after sex scandal
Pastor John Termini, a former real estate broker and his wife, Katie, have stepped in to lead the scandal-scarred Hillsong NYC in the wake of an explosive sex scandal that took down the church’s former celebrity lead pastor Carl Lentz.
Televangelist Frederick KC Price fighting for life after COVID-19 ravages heart, lungs and kidneys
A global call for prayers is now circulating for the 89-year-old founder of the 28,000-member Los Angeles-based Crenshaw Christian Center, Frederick K.C. Price, after a weekslong bout with COVID-19 left him with a ravaged heart, lungs and kidneys.
Official denies John MacArthur makes more than $500K a year from Grace to You
California megachurch Pastor John MacArthur’s ministry denied he makes more than $500,000 annually from his Grace to You media ministry and defended the stewardship of his collective ministries' finances on Tuesday after a recent report suggested his private lifestyle belies the modesty he preaches at the pulpit.
Kentucky church votes not to resume indoor services until 70% of city is vaccinated
Leaders at First Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Kentucky, voted Monday to keep indoor worship services suspended until 70% of the city is vaccinated as a more highly transmissible coronavirus variant spreads rapidly around the U.S.
Some black leaders say there's room for dissent in SBC over CRT
As a racial and ideological divide over critical race theory continues to roil the Southern Baptist Convention, two of the denomination’s senior black leaders insist the denomination is big enough to accommodate dissent.
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