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.
Officials at Futures Church headquartered in Australia were left in shock last Wednesday after Daniel Menelaou, a youth pastor with the Alpharetta, Georgia, campus of the global megachurch, was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography.
Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, offered prayers to congregants and reminded them on Sunday that the church had drawn a “bright line” of separation from founder Robert Morris following his indicted last Wednesday on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child by a multi-county grand jury in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma’s “tough on crime” Attorney General Gentner Drummond, who launched his 2026 bid to become the state’s governor just two months ago, used a frontier-era law most frequently used to prosecute cold cases to charge megachurch pastor, Robert Morris, with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child stemming from allegations made by Cindy Clemishire last June.
Samantha Marion, the woman who has been charged with the fatal shooting of prominent Memphis, Tennessee, Pastor Ricky Floyd on Wednesday morning, is now reportedly on suicide watch in jail as her mother insists she was defending herself after she was attacked.
A day after being indicted on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child by a multi-county grand jury in Oklahoma, the bond for disgraced Gateway Church founder Robert Morris was set at $50,000 on Thursday as he faces a possible 100 years maximum in prison if convicted on all counts.
Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit accusing Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, of misallocating their tithes and failing to honor a money-back guarantee have removed former Executive Global Pastor Kevin Grove as a defendant.
Ricky Floyd, a prominent pastor in Memphis, Tennessee, well-known for his community-building and people empowerment skills, was shot dead during an altercation with a woman outside a bar Wednesday morning, according to police. He was 58.
Robert Morris, founding pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, was indicted on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child by a multi-county grand jury in Oklahoma on Wednesday. The indictment stems from allegations made by Cindy Clemishire last June that he sexually abused her over multiple years in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12.
A Long Island pastor who told investigators that he couldn’t stop himself from abusing children and has a penchant for preying on youth aged 11 and 15, pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child in federal court in Central Islip Tuesday.
A pastoral team commissioned by the Messianic Jewish umbrella organization Tikkun International has suggested there might be a biblical path for International House of Prayer Kansas City founder Mike Bickle to return to ministry.
