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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Viral TikTok videos claim Putin shows Jesus as black in historic icons
Scores of viral videos on the social platform TikTok are claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin recently opened up a vault revealing historic icons depicting Jesus, the Virgin Mary and his disciples as black. Fact-checkers from news agencies like Reuters and AFP say, however, that the claim is fabricated.
Mother of youth minister shot dead by pastor’s son in love triangle confident justice will be served
Shaylor Wilcots, the mother of late New Generation Church Youth Minister Denzel Branch, who was shot dead by his lead pastor's son Joshua Bell during a dispute near the church on Sunday, is confident justice will be served as she prepares to bury her son on Saturday.
Speculation grows as search for pastor’s wife Jilian Kelley and Veronica Butler continues
Speculation about what happened to 39-year-old pastor's wife, Jilian Kelley, who disappeared in Oklahoma Saturday with 27-year-old Veronica Butler as they headed to pick up Butler's children, continued to grow Wednesday as authorities still search for the missing woman.
Pastor accused of raping impaired teen now on the run, is former cop
Monte Lavelle Chitty, a 62-year-old Florida pastor and former police officer accused of getting a 15-year-old member of his church drunk and sexually assaulting her, is now on the run weeks after he was released on a $75,000 bond.
Youth minister shot dead by pastor’s son in love triangle near New Generation Church
Easter Sunday at New Generation Church in Dallas, Texas, culminated with a bloody murder as the congregation's youth minister was gunned down in a rage-filled attack by the pastor's son, who confessed to an affair with the minister's wife prior to their recent divorce, police say.
Former Chi Alpha pastor gets no prison time for sexual abuse of family member
William C. Robinson, a former pastor for the Corpus Christi, Texas, chapter of the embattled Chi Alpha Campus Ministries, who pleaded guilty to the continuous sexual abuse of an underage family member beginning when she was 9, will serve no prison time.
Missing pastor’s wife, woman in custody dispute ‘could be in danger,’ investigator says
Officials at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation fear a pastor's wife who disappeared with a woman she was accompanying to pick up children on Saturday "could be in danger."
Pastor Greg Locke declares Christianity ‘under attack’ in US after 200 Bibles torched near church
Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, told members of his flock that the setting on fire of around 200 Bibles in a trailer near his church by an unidentified suspect on Easter Sunday is proof that Christianity is "under attack" in the United States.
Pastor shot at church says God told him ‘stop trying to die’ in spirited return to pulpit
In a spirited return to his pulpit just weeks after being shot in the face by carjackers, Pastor Clemmie Livingston Jr., of Zionfield Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, said God told him to “stop trying to die” as he bled in the aftermath of the shooting.
Pacific Coast Pastor Ashley Wilkerson: Bible translators changed Scripture to diminish women leaders
Ashley Wilkerson, senior co-pastor of Pacific Coast Church in Tacoma, Washington, which she leads with her husband JonFulton Wilkerson, has drawn criticism for suggesting that Bible translators altered Scripture to diminish evidence that women served as apostles, deacons and even pastors in the early church.
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