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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Pastor accused of having sex with teenager more than 100 times while he was her legal guardian
An Indiana woman who says she has lost her faith in humanity after she was forced to have sex more than 100 times as a teenager by her pastor as he served as her legal guardian, says despite everything she went through, “I never lost my faith in God.”
Pastor paid hitmen nearly $40K to kill daughter’s boyfriend: police
A California pastor who allegedly paid hitmen nearly $40,000 last October to kill his daughter's boyfriend has been arrested and charged with solicitation for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
Majority of Americans say religion is losing influence in public life: Pew
Most American adults say religion is losing influence in public life and many are not happy about it, a new study from the Pew Research Center has found.
Father thanks God for sparing family after deadly tornado rips through Ohio home
An Ohio father whose young children and their mother were on their way home to join him but decided to turn around last Thursday just before a deadly tornado destroyed his home is thanking God for sparing his life and keeping his family safe.
Ron DeSantis pledges help for American missionaries trapped in Haiti
As many American missionaries seek to be evacuated from Haiti after getting trapped there amid political turmoil and escalating violence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he has authorized rescue flights to help missionaries get out of the troubled Caribbean nation.
Marriages surge past 2M nationally for first time since 2019
After falling to a historic low during the COVID-19 pandemic, marriages in the United States saw a significant rebound in 2022 and surged past the 2 million mark for the first time since 2019, new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
Evangelicals divided on how churches, leaders should engage on public policy issues
While there has been a longstanding debate over how involved churches and their leaders should be when it comes to public policy issues, a majority of Evangelicals only agree on two issues they think churches and their leaders should be very involved with — abortion and what is acceptable in public expressions of faith.
Woman recorded shooting pastor will not face death penalty
A woman recorded on video fatally shooting a Nevada pastor in front of his family during a longstanding HOA dispute in December will not face the death penalty if she is convicted of murder.
NY lawmaker pushes to decriminalize adultery
Slamming a New York State Penal Law that makes adultery a class B misdemeanor as “archaic,” Democratic State Assemblymember Charles D. Lavine introduced a new bill Monday to decriminalize a sin that was punishable by death in the Old Testament of the Bible.
Pastor shot in mouth during carjacking speaks, is grateful to be alive
Nearly three weeks after he was shot in the mouth by carjackers as he was getting ready for a service at his church in Memphis, Tennessee, Pastor Clemmie Livingston Jr. is on the mend.
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