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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Victim, church members outraged after former SBC pastor convicted of sex crimes returns to pulpit
The Rev. Darrell Gilyard, a registered sex offender and protégé of former Southern Baptist Convention President Paige Patterson, is under fire for getting back into the pulpit after serving time in prison for molesting two teenage girls.
Bethel Church suspends faith healing work at hospitals amid coronavirus outbreak
Bethel Church, the controversial megachurch in Redding, California, that also runs a school of supernatural ministry, suspended their “faith healing” ministry at local hospitals where they are known to lay hands on the sick, due to the new coronavirus.
Pregnant youth pastor killed in crash after singing ‘Ain’t No Grave (Can Hold My Body Down)’
Just hours after singing "Ain’t No Grave (Can Hold My Body Down)," Alabama youth pastor Breanna Brown Eaton and her unborn daughter died and her husband Jacob was left critically injured in a grisly crash late Saturday.
Coronavirus could become ‘horrendous situation’ if spread not contained, Ben Carson warns
Renowned retired neurosurgeon and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson warned Sunday that if the coronavirus is not contained, America could end up in a “horrendous situation.”
Notre Dame ranked as top university in the world for theology, divinity and religious studies
Quacquarelli Symonds, a leading global higher education company, has ranked the Catholic University of Notre Dame in Indiana as the top university in the world for theology, divinity and religious studies in their 2020 World University Rankings, released in London on Wednesday.
Church of the Nativity shuttered in Bethlehem after coronavirus infections
The Palestinian Authority announced Thursday that the Church of the Nativity after at least seven hotel workers in Bethlehem were infected with the coronavirus.
Jamal Bryant tells congregants Lysol won’t kill new coronavirus, but EPA says it does
Pastor Jamal Bryant warned his congregation that the popular brand of disinfectant and antiseptic known as Lysol will not protect them from the Covid-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus, but the EPA says it can.
Florida church says member diagnosed with coronavirus, asks for prayers
A Florida church confirmed this week that a member is one of two people in the Tampa Bay area confirmed by the CDC to have tested positive for the COVID-19 strain of the coronavirus.
After viral proposal, youth pastor marries high school sweetheart on ABC’s ‘Strahan, Sara & Keke’
A youth pastor from North Carolina who proposed to his high school sweetheart in a now viral Family Feud style event last December topped off his love for her last Friday with a wedding through tears on ABC’s ‘Strahan, Sara & Keke’ show.
South Korean cult church blamed for COVID-19 says members are being persecuted, killed
Leaders of Shincheonji Church of Jesus, a secretive religious sect that many see as a cult and has been blamed for the propagation of the COVID-19 virus in South Korea, say their members are now being attacked and killed as alarm increases over the new coronavirus.
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