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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Paul S. Morton, founding bishop of The Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International, has been fielding withering criticism online for insisting churches should remain open amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Among the 50 most unique items left behind in Uber vehicles in 2019 is a lanyard that says “Virginity Rocks.” And thanks to Danny Duncan, a young, irreverent, YouTube star from California, the phrase is now a fashionable statement American teenagers are now wearing on their clothes.
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With a new warning from the CDC against mass gatherings or events of 50 or more people over the next eight weeks, many churches are unprepared to provide online alternatives amid the new coronavirus pandemic a recent study shows.
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President Donald Trump was among hundreds of thousands of Christians who attended church online across the nation Sunday after he leaned heavily on Scripture on Saturday to declare a National Day of Prayer in the wake of the new coronavirus pandemic.
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Bethel Church in Redding, California and Elevation Church in North Carolina have joined a growing list of megachurches ...
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Texas-based televangelist Kenneth Copeland of Kenneth Copeland Ministries urged people not to panic over the new coronavirus, calling it a “very weak strain of flu” that healthy people shouldn’t fear.
Some churches refuse to close in wake of coronavirus despite warnings from governor
Some churches including Southern Baptist congregations in Kentucky say they have no plans to shutter amid the new coronavirus epidemic despite a request from Gov. Andy Beshear urging houses of worship to close temporarily Wednesday to help prevent community spread of the deadly virus.
Empowered21 shifts online after Israel imposes ban on international conferences
The Global Congress of Empowered21, a worldwide gathering of Pentecostal Christians, will now take place as an online event after the Israeli government imposed a complete ban on foreign travelers due to the new coronavirus pandemic.
Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell, adviser to Obama and Bush, pleads guilty to fraud
After denying any wrongdoing on his part for nearly two years, prominent Houston pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell has admitted to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection to his role in a multimillion investment scheme that preyed on the elderly.
Megachurch fired pastor Victor Couzens after bank said his moral failures were no good for business
Inspirational Bible Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, fired their longtime pastor Victor S. Couzens after their lender, Union Bank &Trust in Lincoln, Nebraska, insisted on a leadership change because his moral failures were affecting the church’s ability to repay their $4.7 million mortgage.
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