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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Bill to Define Person as 'Human Being From Moment of Fertilization' Could Outlaw All Abortions in Alabama
A bill seeking to legally define a person as "any human being from the moment of fertilization or the functional equivalent thereof" could focus the abortion debate on the issue of when life begins.
Target Says Women's Bathrooms Open for Biologically Male Customers to Use
Minnesota-based retail giant Target announced Tuesday that transgender people are free to use the bathrooms and fitting rooms in their stores that match the gender they identify with, not their sex.
Pearl Jam Cancels North Carolina Concert, Claims Bathroom Bill Is 'Despicable'
Popular rock band Pearl Jam joined a growing list of people protesting North Carolina's bathroom bill when they announced the cancellation of their upcoming show scheduled for Wednesday in Raleigh.
Chinese Christian Union Sues San Francisco Over Public Open Air Urinal
San Francisco's Chinese Christian Union and some of their neighbors have teamed up in a lawsuit against the city over the construction on an open air urinal in a public park.
Televangelist Paula White Hawks 'Resurrection Life' for $1,144 'Seed'
Longtime televangelist and senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Florida, Paula White offered her followers an Easter Sunday deliverance from a spiritual death sentence for a $1,144 "resurrection seed" she says was set by God.
Utah Gov. to Sign Legislation Declaring Porn a 'Public Health Hazard'
Republican Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert is expected to sign legislation Tuesday declaring pornography a "public health hazard" and punish computer technicians who fail to report finding child pornography during their work
Innocent Man Says Christian Faith Helped Him Forgive Crooked Cop Who Framed Him
Jameel McGee, an innocent black man from Michigan who was imprisoned for four years after a police officer framed him as a drug dealer is calling the now former officer a friend after his Christian faith helped him forgive.
Pastor and Wife Killed in Horrific Hit-And-Run After Visiting Newborn
A 60-year-old pastor and his wife died last Tuesday when they were mowed down inside their car by a speeding driver who ran a red light and fled the scene.
Brazil President Dilma Rousseff One Step Closer to Impeachment, Led by Evangelical Christian in Congress
Brazil's unpopular leftist President Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party suffered a crushing defeat Sunday, after that country's lower house of Congress, led by unapologetic evangelical Christian Eduardo Cunha, voted to impeach her.
Judge Rules Worship of Flying Spaghetti Monster Is Not a Religion but Riposte to Intelligent Design
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the case of an inmate in Nebraska demanding that prison officials accommodate his worship of the Flying Spaghetti Monster because it is not a religion but a riposte of intelligent design.
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