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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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was forced to shut down unfounded rumors Wednesday that their ailing leader, Thomas S. Monson, had died after being hospitalized this week.
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As allegations that the Potter's House Denver pastor Chris Hill had an affair with a married church member continue to swirl, the member's husband recently announced that he is "separated." Meanwhile, the megachurch is remaining mum.
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Jack Dillon Young, the 20-year-old driver who crashed into a bus killing 13 members of the First Baptist Church of New Braunfels in Texas reportedly confessed that he was texting when the accident occurred.
Pastor Lands in Hot Water for Saying Men and Women Can't Be 'Just Friends'
Hans Fiene, a Lutheran pastor from Illinois, is now the center of a heated debate online after he suggested in an op-ed Tuesday that heterosexual men and women cannot be "just friends."
99 Religious Groups to Congress: Oppose Trump Plan to Let Pastors Endorse Candidates
A coalition of 99 church groups and other religious organizations urged Congress not to repeal the controversial Johnson Amendment Tuesday, despite the repeal effort being one of President Donald Trump's signature campaign promises to evangelicals.
Catholic School Teacher Charged With Having Sex With Student
A 25-year-old Roselle Catholic High School teacher in Union County, New Jersey, has been arrested for having sex with an underage student multiple times and could face up to 10 years in prison for her crime.
Paul Washer Released From Hospital After Heart Attack; Fans Rejoice
Fans of beloved HeartCry Missionary Society founder Paul Washer, who suffered a massive heart attack at his home in Virginia last month, are now praising God since his release from the hospital last Friday after enduring emergency surgery some two weeks ago.
Potter's House Denver Pastor Chris Hill Accused of Affair With Married Member
Chris Hill, the married and popular senior pastor of The Potter's House Denver and mentee of megachurch preacher Bishop T. D. Jakes, has been accused of having an affair with a married parishioner with no interest of reconciling with his wife, Joy Turner Hill.
Names of 13 Church Members Killed in Texas Bus Crash Released
The Texas Department of Public Safety on Thursday identified the 13 members of the New Braunfels First Baptist Church killed in a tragic bus crash Wednesday.
Sunday School Teacher Found Dead With Son in Apparent Murder-Suicide
David Michael Pittore-Montiel, a doting father and Sunday school teacher who struggled to overcome a difficult life, lost his battle Thursday morning when police found him dead at his home in Longview, Washington, along with his 7-year-old son, Michael, in an apparent murder-suicide.
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