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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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.
SBC disfellowships 4 more churches, including 2 that support women pastors
The Southern Baptist Convention has disfellowshiped four more churches deemed not to be in friendly cooperation with the denomination's regulations, including one for having a female senior pastor and another that allows women in church leadership.
Pastor saves worshiper’s life with Heimlich after she chokes on mint
A Georgia pastor whose sermon on spiritual warfare at a revival service in Alabama was interrupted by an older adult congregant choking on a mint quickly responded by saving her life with the Heimlich maneuver last Thursday, and it was all caught on video.
Cindy Jacobs ‘deeply grieved’ by Mike Bickle scandal as IHOPKC co-founder urges ‘full confession’
As allegations of spiritual and sexual misconduct continue to mount against International House of Prayer Kansas City founder Mike Bickle, Cindy Jacobs, a self-professed prophet and preacher, said she is "deeply grieved" by the scandal and is praying for the 24/7 prayer ministry and Bickle's victims.
Mike Bickle contacted accuser for advice before she went public, former staffer claims
Mere hours before Tammy Woods alleged in an interview with The Kansas City Star that International House of Prayer Kansas City founder Mike Bickle groomed and sexually abused her in the 1980s when she was just 14, her former pastor allegedly sought her advice amid mounting abuse allegations from multiple women.
Joel Osteen weeps during prayer for 7-year-old boy shot in the head at Lakewood Church
Nearly a month after he was overcome with tears as he announced to his congregation that they had paid off a $100 million loan, Lakewood Church Pastor Joel Osteen was overcome with tears again as he prayed for 7-year-old Samuel Moreno-Carranza, who was shot in his head at the megachurch last Sunday when his mother instigated an armed attack on the church and engaged two off-duty police officers in gunfire.
Woman who claims Mike Bickle sexually abused her at 14 pens open letter
Tammy Woods, a now 57-year-old mother and grandmother who claims she was groomed and sexually abused by International House of Prayer Kansas City founder Mike Bickle in the 1980s when she was just 14, has penned an open letter to him explaining why she went public.
Joel Osteen announces special Sunday services after Lakewood Church shooting
Lakewood Church’s longtime Pastor Joel Osteen invited members of the public to join him Sunday for special services to heal from a tragedy he “never dreamed we’d have to deal with" a week after a deadly shooting at the megachurch.
Investigation into house fire where father lost 6 kids could take months, officials say
An investigation into a house fire in South Bend, Indiana, from which a 67-year-old Christian father managed to save himself but was unable to help any of his six children escape could take several months to complete, fire officials say.
7-year-old son of Lakewood shooter barely clinging to life after being shot in head: grandmother
Samuel Moreno-Carranza, the 7-year-old son of late Lakewood Church shooter, Genesse Ivonne Moreno, is barely clinging to life at Texas Children's Hospital after being shot in the head during a gunfight between his mother and off-duty officers at the Houston megachurch his grandmother says.
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