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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Corey Turner, pastor of global Pentecostal megachurch, confirms resignation over adultery
Weeks after stepping down as global senior pastor of the Australia-based Neuma Church over allegations that he committed adultery with a female pastor in the Pentecostal megachurch, Pastor Corey Turner confirmed his resignation over a "morally inappropriate relationship."
YWAM founder says ministry grieving globally for 11 missionaries killed in crash
Youth With a Mission elder, Darlene Cunningham, who co-founded the interdenominational Christian training organization with her late-husband, Loren Cunningham, in 1960, said the 11 missionaries killed and eight others injured in a grisly crash in Arusha, Tanzania, on Saturday, is a historic loss for the ministry and tears are falling around the world over the event.
Pastor shot in mouth at Memphis church as gunmen steal Sunday School teacher’s car
A beloved pastor is now fighting for his life at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, after he was shot in the mouth outside his church on Sunday as he tried stopping thieves from stealing a Sunday School teacher’s car, witnesses say.
Brian Houston says ‘girls kissing’ tweet was made to embarrass him by someone he knows
Less than a week after vowing to find out who hacked his X account and tweeted the words "ladies and girls kissing," Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston claims the post was made by someone he knows who was attempting to embarrass him.
Pastor apologizes for saying he wouldn't convict rapist if woman was wearing shorts
Pastor Bobby Leonard, the longtime leader of Bible Baptist Tabernacle in Monroe, North Carolina, has apologized after a clip of a sermon in which he said he wouldn't convict a man for raping a woman who was wearing shorts went viral, sparking a local protest and triggering widespread backlash online.
Mother found dead with 4 children hours after posting ‘they have a heart for the Lord’
The family of a celebrated Missouri educator who killed herself and her four children Monday say she was driven to “darkness” due to “spurious litigation and unfounded allegations” by her former boyfriend and ex-husband in a contentious custody battle over their children who she said had “heart for the Lord.”
Family of pastor killed after cop crashed into him upset by seeing his colleagues in courtroom
The family of late Connecticut pastor, Tommie Jackson who was killed after he was hit by a speeding police cruiser last Summer say they were “insulted” after more than 30 people, said to be mostly officers, showed up in court Wednesday to support their 25-year-old colleague charged with the pastor’s death.
Bethel’s Kris Vallotton apologizes to abuse victims after declaring ‘I love Mike Bickle’
Kris Vallotton, senior associate leader of Bethel Church in California, apologized to victims of abuse and sexual misconduct in the Church after offering support in a sermon Sunday to International House of Prayer Kansas City founder Mike Bickle, who faces sexual misconduct allegations from multiple women.
Widow of assassinated Haitian president accused of being accomplice because she wanted power
Martine Moïse, the widow of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, who was assassinated in July 2021, is among 51 people indicted by a Haitian judge for allegedly being an accomplice to her late husband’s murder.
After days of prayer, missing 11-year-old girl is found dead in river
After multiple days of searching and prayer vigils, Audrii Cunningham, an 11-year-old girl from Livingston, Texas, who went missing last Thursday after she was sent to catch the school bus with an adult male family friend has been found dead, and the family friend has been charged with her murder, officials announced Wednesday.
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