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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Online pastor, wife allegedly sold $3.2M in worthless cryptocurrency to Christians
An online pastor and his wife are facing civil fraud charges in Colorado for selling some $3.2 million in a worthless cryptocurrency they created called “INDXcoin” to hundreds of Christians while claiming that God said the investment would make them wealthy.
Christian father loses 5 of his children in South Bend house fire
A Christian father from South Bend, Indiana, was left in shock after five of his six children died after a massive blaze erupted at his home on Sunday evening.
IHOPKC’s executive director blames ministry failures on lack of training
International House of Prayer Kansas City’s newly appointed interim executive Kurt Fuller has blamed the embattled 24/7 prayer ministry’s leadership failures on a lack of training as an in investigation into alleged misconduct by IHOPKC founder Mike Bickle remains ongoing.
IHOPKC bans ‘prophet’ Bob Hartley from 24/7 prayer room after allegations of sex abuse, predation
The embattled International House of Prayer Kansas City has banned self-styled "prophet" Bob Hartley of Hartley Hope Ministries from its 24/7 prayer room after he was publicly accused of sexual assault and a pattern of predatory behavior, allegations he denies.
Black churches suffered more but adapted better during pandemic: study
Compared to white and multiracial churches, majority-black congregations suffered more from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic but appear to have adapted better to the challenges presented by the virus, a new study shows.
Florida pastor who lashed misbehaving students at church school will not be charged
Terence Gray, the senior pastor of Saint Mark AME Orlando, who was accused of child abuse after administering corporal punishment to 16 misbehaving students at a school run by his church last November, will not be charged with a crime, Florida's Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Andrew Bain's office announced Wednesday.
Tearful Joel Osteen announces Lakewood Church paid off $100M Bank of America loan
Thanks to their faithful giving, an emotional Joel Osteen announced to members of his megachurch in Houston, Texas, that they have finally paid off a $100 million loan from Bank of America they had been servicing for some 20 years.
TD Jakes: ‘We like our heroes dead’
Megachurch pastor and businessman T.D. Jakes lamented that “we like our heroes dead” during a recent revival service in Maryland, where he spoke about the death of Moses and the transition of power to Joshua.
Beloved twin sisters perish in fire at church where both served as pastors
Parishioners and family members are now mourning identical twin sisters and pastors, Kimberly and Stephanie Hjelt, who led the Word & Spirit Church in Portland, Oregon, after they both perished in a three-alarm fire that destroyed their parsonage on Sunday. The sisters were 76.
Police continue search for 6 missing people tied to online cult leader who bashed Jesus
Police in Berkeley, Missouri, who have been searching for four adults and two children who went missing after they were served eviction papers for a rental home in St. Louis last August said they had ties to Rashad Jamal, an imprisoned self-styled spiritual guru, prophet and rapper with thousands of followers online.
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