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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Thousands join search for missing Texas pastor 5 days after he left home
A massive search continued Monday for 47-year-old Texas Pastor Phillip Loveday five days after he left his home for his secular job at Kinder Morgan but never showed up and he hasn’t contacted his family since.
Tennis star Coco Gauff thanks church family, God for biggest win of her life at Mubadala Citi DC Open
Nineteen-year-old American tennis star, Coco Gauff, publicly thanked God, and her church for helping her overcome her first-round loss at Wimbledon last month to win the Mubadala Citi DC Open women’s final on Sunday where she beat Greek World No.9 Maria Sakkari 6-2, 6-3 in impressive fashion.
Christian ministry in Haiti praying through tears as kidnapped nurse and daughter still missing
As they hit the one-week mark since New Hampshire nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter were kidnapped from their campus near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Christian education ministry, El Roi Haiti, said they have been aching and praying through tears for the release of their founder’s wife and daughter.
Pastor, wife and 3-year-old son jailed on charges of luring innocent people to Christianity
A pastor, his wife, and young son have been jailed for allegedly luring innocent people to Christianity in violation of an anti-conversion law in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state where Christians only make up less than 1% of the 200 million population.
Texas missionaries escape Niger after coup as State Departments issues Level 4 Travel Advisory
A group of student missionaries from the Harmony Hill Baptist Church in Lufkin, Texas, were safely on their way back to the U.S. Thursday after their return from a mission trip in Niger was delayed by the ousting of the country’s democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum by soldiers last week.
Christian Ministry in Haiti urges more prayers for kidnapped nurse, gang reportedly wants $1M ransom
El Roi Haiti, the Christian education ministry in Haiti from which New Hampshire nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter were kidnapped as she did work for the ministry “following in the footsteps of Jesus,” has called for more prayers for her safe return as gang members have reportedly demanded a ransom of $1 million.
Jerry Falwell Jr. sues Liberty University claiming exploitation of 'Jerry Falwell trademark’
Former Liberty University president, Jerry Falwell Jr., has filed a lawsuit against Liberty University for exploiting the trademark and image of his father, Jerry Falwell, who founded the Evangelical Christian university in 1971, without consulting the Falwell family or "authorization of the Dr. Jerry L. Falwell Family Trust."
Belief in God, angels, Heaven, Hell and devil hit record lows: study
The shares of Americans who believe in God, angels, Heaven, Hell, and the devil have all tumbled to the lowest levels ever recorded over the last two decades and belief in God and Heaven have made the steepest dips, new data from Gallup show.
State Department doesn’t believe kidnapping of American nurse in Haiti connected to travel advisory
State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said Monday that he does not believe that the abduction of an American nurse and her child from a Christian education ministry in Haiti last Thursday is connected to the department’s issuance of a Level 4 Travel Advisory that same day telling Americans to leave for the Caribbean nation soon as possible.
American nurse and child kidnapped from Christian ministry in Haiti
An American nurse and her child were kidnapped Thursday from a Christian education ministry founded and directed by her husband in Haiti less than two years after 17 missionaries were kidnapped in the troubled Caribbean nation.
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