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.
Evangelicals, non-denominational Christians and people who identify with no religion are the leading religious groups among the majority of Americans who oppose the rapid increase in the number of artificial intelligence-generated videos on social media, according to findings from a new study that has surprised researchers.
The annual "Christmas Spectacular" produced by the multi-campus Champion Forest Baptist Church in Texas turned into a nightmare for one patron earlier this month after she appeared to be kicked in the face by a camel while watching a procession of performers from an aisle seat in the sanctuary.
Just five days before he was supposed to celebrate his 56th birthday, former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle perished with his wife daughter and son if a fiery plane crash in North Carolina on Thursday.
Nearly two months since American missionary pilot Kevin Rideout was kidnapped from his home in the highly secure Château 1 neighborhood of Niamey in the capital of Niger in West Africa, local Christians say they are worried about the silence around efforts to rescue him.
The Catholic Archdiocese of New York has agreed to sell the land it currently owns beneath the historic Lotte New York Palace Hotel—New York’s first five-star hotel—for $490 million dollars to help pay survivors of priest sex abuse.
Former megachurch pastor Micahn Carter and his wife, April, have announced plans to start a new church in Indianapolis, Indiana, as he continues to pursue a defamation lawsuit against his former assistant, who alleges he raped her in a church office in 2019.
Jackie Shroyer, the 44-year-old wife of late Minnesota missionary Beau Shroyer, who is alleged to have been the mastermind behind a murder-for-hire plot that led to his death in Lubango, Angola, in October 2024, has been convicted and sentenced to 24 years in prison.
Micah Sykes, the 31-year-old son of Grammy-nominated Christian singer Jubilant Sykes, who has been charged with his murder, was homeless and struggling with mental illness for years, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
A growing consumption of ultra-processed foods such as breakfast cereals, yogurts, soda, cookies and even infant formula is fueling an increase in chronic diseases, including mental illnesses around the world, according to a global team of public health experts..
Reactions to the death of Grammy nominated gospel and opera singer, Jubilant Sykes, continue to emerge Thursday following his fatal stabbing at his home in California and the arrest of one of his sons, Micah Sykes by local police.
