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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Man accused of pimping teen says he was ‘counselor’ at Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church
An Alabama man accused of pimping and having sex with a teenager who had been selling nude content on Snapchat beginning when she was just 12, claims to have been a volunteer youth pastor at Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church for the last 12 years, where he served as a “counselor” for children aged 5 to 18.
Young COGIC leaders call on Donnie Swaggart to repent for rebuking black church
Scores of young leaders in the Church of God In Christ, America’s largest black Pentecostal denomination, have called on evangelist Donnie Swaggart to publicly repent for his recent rebuke of the black Church.
First-time missionary killed in Angola months after family raised concern about security
Beau Shroyer, a pastor and former police officer from Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, who began working with his wife Jackie, and five children as missionaries in Lubango, Angola, for SIM-USA, was “killed while serving Jesus” last Friday, months after his family raised concern at a local church about ongoing security concerns they had at the mission. He was 44.
Atheist group demands coach Deion Sanders stop pre-game prayers with football team
Head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes football team, Super Bowl winner and NFL Hall of Famer Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders, is coming under fire from an atheist group for holding team prayers and other religious activities.
Cross-waving sanitation worker calls Kamala Harris ‘devil,’ ‘anti-Christ’ at Trump’s MSG rally
David Rem, a 60-year-old sanitation worker in New York City who said former President Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was a benefactor of his family beginning in the early 1970s, called Vice President Kamala Harris, who is seeking to become the nation’s first female president, the “devil” and the “anti-Christ” at a star-studded rally of supporters held at Madison Square Garden Sunday.
Youth pastor pimped teenager, lived off her earnings beginning when she was 12, police say
A youth pastor who volunteered at an undisclosed church in Alabama has been arrested and charged in Plantation, Florida, with one count of living off the earnings of a teenager he allegedly began pimping when she was just 12.
Pastor Donnie Swaggart rebukes black Church for endorsing Kamala Harris
Evangelist Donnie Swaggart, the only son of controversial televangelist Jimmy Swaggart is now coming under fire from black Christians after he delivered a scathing rebuke of the black church and Bishop John Drew Sheard, the presiding bishop and chief apostle of the Church of God in Christ, Inc., for endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
Beloved Alabama pastor allegedly fatally shot by daughter; wife hospitalized with injuries
A beloved Alabama pastor was fatally shot by his own daughter at his home on Sunday while his wife, who was also shot during the attack, is recovering from injuries she is expected to survive.
Tongues-talking Tyler Perry caught on video raining ‘dollars’ on stripper at Usher concert
Tongues-talking movie-mogul Tyler Perry, whose Christian values have been criticized by fans over the years, has come under scrutiny again after he was caught on video raining fake money on a stripper at R&B singer Usher’s Past Present Future Tour in Atlanta, Georgia, on Sunday.
Televangelist Apollo Quiboloy may have sexually abused 200 women, police say
Police in the Philippines say televangelist and Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy, who has pleaded not guilty to human trafficking and the sexual abuse of children, might have sexually abused some 200 women as he faced some of his accusers in that country’s senate on Wednesday.
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