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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Woman, 85, kills gunman and survives after he shot her multiple times
Christine Jenneiahn, a gutsy 85-year-old mother who killed a gunman who invaded her home and survived despite being shot multiple times, will not be prosecuted for defending herself and her disabled son, officials said.
16-year-old with long police record arrested for attacking woman on steps of NYC church
Detectives with the New York City Police Department have arrested and charged a 16-year-old boy in connection with a brutal assault and robbery of a 68-year-old woman on the steps of St. Demetrios’ Greek Orthodox Church in Jamaica, Queens, New York, on Sunday which left her critically injured.
OJ Simpson dies from cancer; family asks for privacy and grace
Disgraced American football legend and retired actor O.J. Simpson died Wednesday from cancer, his family has announced. He was 76.
Finding missing pastor’s wife, Jilian Kelley, Veronica Butler alive now ‘more challenging': investigator
The chances of finding Jilian Kelley, a 39-year-old pastor's wife, and Veronica Butler, 27, alive after they disappeared more than a week ago with signs of “foul play” is growing “more challenging” as time wears on.
Pastor’s missing 13-year-old son, Gunner Blair, found safe after frantic search
The Conway Police Department in South Carolina confirmed Thursday that Gunner Blair, the 13-year-old son of Langston Baptist Church Pastor Brandon Blair, who disappeared for hours in the woods behind the church on Wednesday, has been found after a desperate search and is safe.
Idaho man planned suicide attack on churches to support ISIS: FBI
An 18-year-old Idaho man who pledged his support to the Islamic State and planned a suicide attack on churches in Coeur d'Alene has been charged with attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization after his plan was thwarted by federal authorities Saturday.
Master portrait artist Zimou Tan revives the Gospel in art but won’t depict the face of Jesus
About a month before his solo exhibition billed “The Lord was there” opened at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie on March 1, master portrait artist Zimou Tan had a completely different vision of what the show would look like. But God, he said, interrupted everything.
Son fatally stabs mother while listening to Jay-Z, Kanye West’s ‘No Church in the Wild’
A 21-year-old pre-med student at the University of Florida with no history of mental illness confessed to fatally stabbing his mother more than 70 times in Frostproof on Saturday while listening to Kanye West and Jay-Z's song “No Church in the Wild,” authorities said.
Pastor, ex-officer who fled after sexual battery charge is back in custody thanks to Texas church
Days after he fled prosecution in Florida for allegedly sexually assaulting an alcohol-impaired teenager, former police officer and pastor, Monte Lavelle Chitty, is now back in custody thanks to a quick-thinking Texas church.
Jim Staley claims solar eclipse will release sixth seal of Revelation, is God’s warning to America
Reformed Passion for Truth ministry leader Pastor Jim Staley, who pleaded guilty to defrauding elderly victims of millions of dollars in an investment scam in 2015, says he believes Monday’s total solar eclipse is a warning from God to America and is connected to the release of the sixth seal of the book of Revelation in the Bible
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