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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Pastor Greg Locke says Facebook removed his Sunday service announcement for 'promoting a crime'
Popular internet preacher and lead pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee, Greg Locke, who insists his church will stay open during the coronavirus pandemic, said Facebook removed his post about this Sunday's service, accusing it of “promoting a crime.”
Paula White cites Old Testament plague to urge believers to call on God: Coronavirus can be stopped
President Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser, Paula White-Cain, called on Christians to continue praying for an end to the coronavirus pandemic Sunday and referenced the plague God sent on the Israelites for a failed rebellion against His chosen leader, Moses, and his brother, Aaron.
'Unbearable tragedy': Christian family loses fourth member to coronavirus
A close-knit Italian-American Christian family that lost three members to the coronavirus after a family dinner just over a week ago lost a fourth member Thursday.
Burying the dead now harder for funeral homes under coronavirus restrictions
Frantic funeral homes across the country say they are struggling to keep up with the rapidly changing new regulations on public gatherings and how they impact the burying of the dead in the age of the new coronavirus. Some say they are just praying that the government doesn’t ask them to shut down altogether.
3 members of Christian family including matriarch killed by coronavirus; several others hospitalized
A faithful New Jersey mother of 11 and grandmother of 27 died from the new coronavirus Wednesday just hours after the deadly virus killed one of her sons and five days after it took the life of her eldest child, a daughter.
‘I feel that my heart is ready,’ James MacDonald says days before return to pulpit
Founder of Harvest Bible Chapel in greater Chicago, James MacDonald, believes his “heart is ready” for what is expected to be an unusual return to the pulpit Sunday at Calvary Chapel South Bay in Gardena, California, just over a year after he was booted from ministry at his old church for a raft of misdeeds.
7 ways people have responded to the coronavirus: Improved hygiene tops the list
From hoarding toilet paper to cash and hand sanitizer, Americans have been reacting in various ways to the new coronavirus pandemic.
Calif. church shutters: Member dies of coronavirus, several others test positive
A church in Sacramento, California, announced that it will stay closed until at least early April after one of their beloved members died from the new coronavirus and several others tested positive.
National Black Church Initiative urges all churchgoers over 60 to stay home until further notice
The National Black Church Initiative, a coalition of 34,000 African American and Latino churches working to eradicate racial disparities, has urged leaders of churches in their network to advise their at-risk congregants to stay home amid the pandemic.
Pastor hospitalized 3 times before positive coronavirus test; criticizes access to testing
Terrance Hughes, co-pastor of New Covenant Christian Church / Alpha Omega Ministries Disciples of Christ who is also a candidate for Colorado House District 7, revealed he is now infected with the new coronavirus after being hospitalized three times before he was given a test for it.
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