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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TD Jakes says society breaking down because 'we are raising up women to be men’
Megachurch Pastor T.D. Jakes suggested in a recent sermon that families are being lost in contemporary culture because “we are raising up women to be men” while subverting their femininity.
John Gray experiencing 'miraculous' recovery after suffering life-threatening embolism: wife
More than a week after he was hospitalized with a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, Relentless Church Pastor John Gray is now slowly on the mend, according to his wife, Aventer Gray, and she’s calling it a “miracle.”
Stress reaches ‘all-time high’ among world’s workers as 60% detach emotionally: report
Stress among the world’s workers reached an all-time high in 2021, with 60% reporting they felt emotionally detached from their jobs while many others reported not feeling hopeful about the future, according to the State of the Global Workplace: 2022 Report from global analytics and advice firm Gallup.
JD Hall’s former church says he embezzled money, physically assaulted wife and son
An elder with Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana, said Friday that former pastor, Jordan Daniel "J.D." Hall, a polemics blogger known for criticizing Christian leaders, embezzled thousands from the church and was kicked out of his home for being physically abusive.
Rick Warren’s Saddleback successor Andy Wood is ‘cleared’ of abuse allegations
Just over a month after a preliminary investigation cleared Pastor Andy Wood of allegations of leadership abuse during his time at Echo.Church, elders at Saddleback Church say that Rick Warren’s named successor has been completely “cleared” by two separate investigations.
‘More than a pretty face:’ 7 reactions to the death of fmr. President Donald Trump’s ex-wife Ivana Trump
Tributes praising her skills as a mother, businesswoman and socialite who was “more than a pretty face” followed the sudden death of former President Donald Trump’s first wife Ivana Trump at her home in New York City Thursday.
As millions face global hunger crisis, World Vision seeks $2 billion for the food insecure
Edgar Sandoval Sr., president and CEO of World Vision USA, says the COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by the war in Ukraine, climate shocks and inflation, has turned a once looming hunger crisis into a present danger for nearly 4 million people in Kenya, and millions of others around the globe.
Tetsuya Yamagami, Shinzo Abe’s alleged assassin, blamed Unification Church for mother’s bankruptcy
Tetsuya Yamagami, the 41-year-old man charged with the assassination of Japan's former and longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last Friday, allegedly targeted the late politician because he thought he was connected to the Unification Church, which he blamed for his mother going bankrupt.
World to reach 8 billion people in November, India to unseat China as most populous in 2023: UN
By Nov. 15, the world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion, and by 2023, India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country, according to a new report from the United Nations.
Illinois pastor loses 2 daughters and sister in tragic highway crash
An Illinois pastor and his family are now grieving the loss of two of his three daughters and his sister after a tragic crash along Old U.S. Highway 50 on Friday.
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