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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Barely a week since the Satanic Temple in Phoenix, Arizona was approved to deliver the opening prayer at an upcoming meeting of the Phoenix City Council, members voted Wednesday to replace its longstanding tradition of prayer with a moment of silence prayer instead.
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Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that if he had to choose between Republican candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz for president, he would rather see Trump in the White House.
House Speaker Paul Ryan Knocks Culture's 'Growing Impatience With Prayer'
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday knocked America's "growing impatience with prayer" and the feeling that praying is just an abstract notion that amounts to doing nothing.
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The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control is now urging condom use to prevent the spread of the Zika virus after health officials in Texas reported that a Dallas resident contracted the virus through sex.
Emanuel AME Church Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
A group of politicians from Illinois have nominated the Emanuel AME Church of Charleston, where nine people were brutally gunned down during a Bible study last June, for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Donald Trump Wants Iowa Do-Over Due to Ted Cruz's 'Fraud' Against Ben Carson
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump now wants a do-over of the Iowa caucuses or a nullification of the results for rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz due to alleged "fraud."
Mark Driscoll Will Launch New Church in Phoenix This Year
It's official. Former Mars Hill Pastor Mark Driscoll will make his comeback this year at a new church plant in Phoenix, Arizona, called The Trinity Church.
Cruz Campaign Used 'Dirty Tricks,' 'Deceit' to Steal My Supporters, Ben Carson Claims
The campaign of retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson accused winner of Monday night's Republican caucus in Iowa, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz of using dirty politics to siphon some of his supporters.
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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz quoted Scripture, thanked God and his strong conservative grassroots movement as he emerged atop the pack of Republican presidential candidates after the Iowa caucuses Monday night.
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