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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Stonebriar Community Church fires associate pastor for undisclosed ‘moral failure’
Stonebriar Community Church, a non-denominational megachurch in Frisco, Texas, that attracts around 3,000 weekly attendees and thousands more online, has fired its longtime associate pastor of equipping, Tony Cammarota, after he confessed to an undisclosed "moral failure" that disqualifies him from ministry.
Baltimore megachurch promises investigation after dozens allege childhood sex abuse
Greater Grace World Outreach, a global nondenominational Evangelical megachurch headquartered at Greater Grace Church in Baltimore, Maryland, has pledged to commission an independent investigation after dozens of former members say they were sexually abused as kids primarily by prominent male church members or leaders.
LexCity Church permanently shutters after former pastor charged with rape, sodomy of minor
Just over a week after former Executive Pastor Zachary King was charged with the rape and sexual abuse of a minor, LexCity Church in Lexington, Kentucky, has permanently shuttered because it wouldn't be "financially viable" to continue.
Robert Morris’ attorney blamed 12-year-old Cindy Clemishire for getting into his bed, initiating abuse
A former attorney for Gateway Church founder Robert Morris suggested Cindy Clemishire, a 54-year-old woman who accused him of sexually abusing her over multiple years as a child, is partly to blame because she climbed into his bed when she was 12. He also stated that she acted inappropriately with two other adult men in her home as a child.
Lakewood Church, others jump in to help after Hurricane Beryl batters coastal Texas
After Hurricane Beryl barreled into coastal Texas on Monday morning, Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston is among several churches using their resources to help communities in need, with over 1.6 million homes and businesses remaining without power Wednesday.
Missing Chicago pastor found dead in Des Plaines River; colleague insists he was not suicidal
Rev. Warren Beard, a beloved father of five, Sunday school teacher and assistant pastor at New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, who had been missing since July 2, was found dead Tuesday in the Des Plaines River. He was 53.
Family pleads for help to find missing Chicago Pastor Warren Beard
Family and friends of the Rev. Warren Beard, a beloved father of five, Sunday school teacher, and assistant pastor at New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, are desperately praying and calling on the public for help in finding him after he disappeared without a trace more than a week ago after visiting with friends in Joliet.
Global megachurch leader Enoch Adeboye cites Robert Morris’ fall as cautionary tale
Global megachurch leader Pastor Enoch Adeboye, who serves as the general overseer of the Nigeria-based Redeemed Christian Church of God, recently warned members of his flock to “flee youthful lust” while alluding to the collapse of Gateway Church founder Robert Morris’ ministry over allegations of child sexual abuse he committed in the 1980s as a cautionary tale.
Survivor Joyce Meyer, Dr. Ben Carson withdraw from Gateway Church series after child sex abuse allegations against Robert Morris
Childhood sex abuse survivor and televangelist Joyce Meyer, along with renowned neurosurgeon and former Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson, have both pulled out of a line-up of speakers scheduled for Gateway Church’s “Let’s Dive In! Summer Series” in the wake of child sex abuse allegations against founder Robert Morris.
Gateway Church settled lawsuit after multiple pastors accused of covering up sexual assault of minor
Just two months before Gateway Church founder Robert Morris resigned over an explosive allegation of child sex abuse, the megachurch settled a lawsuit in which at least five Gateway Church pastors and a youth leader were accused of concealing the sexual assault of a minor by another member.
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