Leonardo Blair
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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Fewer Americans are ‘convinced’ beyond a doubt that God exists, Gallup says
While nearly 80 percent of Americans were “convinced” just over a decade ago that God exists, only 64 percent of Americans today are so strongly persuaded in their belief in God a new analysis from Gallup says.
13-y-o prayed as he walked miles to get help after mother, brothers killed in Mexican ambush
Days after watching the execution of his mother and two of his brothers by armed gunmen in Mexico last Monday, Devin Langford, 13, who walked 14 miles and several hours to get help for his surviving siblings, said he prayed to God over and over to get him through the ordeal.
Eric Mason calls James White ‘racist’ for calling black churches 'especially' theologically unsound
Bible expert Eric Mason has slammed fellow scholar James White for making what he argues is a “racist” claim that black churches are "especially" theologically unsound when compared to churches of other ethnic groups.
Adverse childhood trauma such as divorce, abuse linked to leading causes of death, CDC says
Adverse Childhood Experiences such as divorce, racism, witnessing violence, substance abuse or having a parent in jail have now been linked to at least five of the 10 leading causes of death in America, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
White owner of Word Network apologizes for controversial meme showing pimping of black pastors
Kevin Adell, the white owner and CEO of the Word Network billed “the largest, African-American religious network in the WORLD,” has apologized for sharing a meme which depicts him pimping popular black preachers.
World Evangelical Alliance announces plans to strengthen, expand network for spiritual awakening
After more than a decade since the organization’s last general assembly, Bishop Efraim Tendero, secretary general of the World Evangelical Alliance, announced Friday at their latest gathering, that they are now ready to reach every nation of the world with the Gospel through strategic partnerships and focus.
Missionaries killed in crash with orphan boy, 4 others in South Africa
A Canadian couple serving as missionaries were killed alongside their two children when their vehicle was hit in a head-on collision in South Africa on Sunday.
Federal judge blocks Trump admin’s ‘conscience rule’ that allowed refusal of healthcare for religious reasons
A federal judge in New York has voided the Trump administration’s “conscience rule” that would have allowed healthcare workers to abstain from participating in abortions or providing other services such as contraception or gender transition procedures due to moral or religious objections.
Catholic Church investigating after two nuns went to Africa on mission trips and returned pregnant
Just months after Pope Francis publicly acknowledged that nuns were being sexually abused by priests and bishops, officials in Rome have reportedly launched an investigation after two Italy-based nuns who served on separate mission trips to Africa returned pregnant.
After 9 members of Mormon family are executed in Mexico, police say it may be a case of mistaken identity
Officials in Mexico believe it may have been a case of mistaken identity after nine members of a prominent fundamentalist Mormon family were shot and torched to death in broad daylight by gunmen, suspected to be members of a drug cartel, Monday.