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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More US missionaries rescued from Haiti as UN report calls situation ‘cataclysmic’
More U.S. missionaries and other Americans who got stranded in Haiti after criminal gangs overran the country in late February have been rescued after weeks of waiting as a new report from the United Nations described the troubled Caribbean nation’s condition as “cataclysmic.”
TD Jakes’ relationship with Diddy under scrutiny again in wake of raid, lawsuits
The relationship between televangelist and megachurch Pastor T.D. Jakes and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has come under renewed public scrutiny following a raid of two of Combs’ homes Monday by federal agents and a recent lawsuit filed by Christian music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones alleging a slew of sex, gun and drug crimes.
Despite discontent about their job, overall health, wellness of pastors better than general public: study
While record levels of pastors have seriously considered quitting and expressed discontent with their jobs in recent years, in general, they are faring better than the general public in health and wellness a new report from the Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations study has found.
Indiana church fires pastor accused of having sex with foster daughter over 100 times
A week after their lead pastor Errol Wright, was accused of having sex with his teenage foster daughter more than 100 times, Community Christian Church in Tell City, Indiana, said he has been fired and they are grieving over the ordeal.
MAG Church disaffiliates from Assemblies of God over Chi Alpha abuse scandal
Former Assemblies of God pastor J.R. Armstrong of MAG Church in Orange, Texas, announced that his congregation recently voted to follow in his footsteps to disaffiliate from the world's largest Pentecostal denomination amid a sexual abuse scandal impacting its Chi Alpha Campus Ministries.
Serial bigamist who posed as pastor had at least 10 wives he met in black churches
A man accused of serial bigamy in Houston, Texas, who posed as a pastor or bishop at small black churches around the country, was sentenced to three years in prison after he was found to have had at least 10 wives whom he married for financial gain.
Manhattan school district calls for review of policy allowing trans-identified athletes in girls’ sports
Officials in Manhattan’s largest school board district, Community Education Council District 2, sparked outraged among LGBT officials Wednesday when they voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution that could ban boys from competing in girls' sports.
Sage Steele believes devil tried to silence her with golf ball strike at PGA Championship
Christian sports anchor and former "SportsCenter" host Sage Steele told Liberty University students that she believes the devil tried to use a devastating blow to her mouth from a wayward golf ball that knocked out eight teeth at the PGA Championship in May 2022 weeks after she filed a lawsuit against ESPN for retaliation to silence her.
World Vision warns of grave impact on Haitian children as violence escalates, missionary evacuated
Global Christian humanitarian aid organization World Vision has warned that children in Haiti are facing grave insecurity as escalating violence in the troubled Caribbean nation continues to lead to the death and displacement of thousands.
Gunman shoots pastor twice after telling him ‘God is not going to bless you tonight’
Texas Pastor Thomas Wilson of Meadowbrook Baptist Church is thanking God for sparing his life after a gunman he refused to lend his phone to shot him twice and robbed him moments after telling him “God is not going to bless you tonight.”
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