Leonardo Blair
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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Christians worry they'll be wiped out of Gaza after mother, daughter shot dead at church
A church leader is worried that Gaza's Christian community will be wiped out in Israel's war with Hamas after Israeli soldiers were accused of fatally shooting two Christian women on the grounds of Gaza City's only Catholic church on Saturday.
As rents soar, homelessness hit record high: HUD
As rents soared and programs focused on preventing evictions and housing loss ended, homelessness hit a record high in 2023, with roughly 20 out of every 10,000 people in the United States found to be experiencing homelessness on a single night, a new report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development shows.
Pastor Steven Smith says he’s willing to step down over handling of abuse case
Pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, Steven Smith, told his congregation Sunday that he is willing to step down for failing to inform them that a former church official charged with guiding children had been credibly accused of abusing minors at the church.
Tennessee mom praises God after baby boy swept up by tornado is found alive in tree
A young Tennessee mother who nearly lost her two children as a massive tornado swept her family out of their home earlier this month is thanking God for keeping her 4-month-old son alive. He was found in a tree after the tornado separated him from the family.
Arkansas pastor apologizes for not telling congregation ex-church employee accused of child abuse
Steven W. Smith, pastor of the more than century-old Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, apologized to his congregation Sunday for not disclosing that a former church official charged with guiding children had been credibly accused of abusing minors at the church while their parents were busy with worship.
Former pastor gets 40 years in prison for abusing 2 daughters starting when they were 8
A former South Carolina pastor who was convicted of sexually molesting his two daughters in his parsonage for years before they were eventually able to disclose his abuse as adults, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for his crimes.
Facing divorce, Pastor Sam Collier admits he was ‘drunk in love’ and got married too soon
Pastor Sam Collier is “in disbelief.” This wasn’t the way his love story was supposed to end. In the beginning, he had imagined doing life with Toni Collier forever. Now they're facing divorce.
Pastor’s alleged theft of $540 rocks church community
A North Carolina pastor has been placed on administrative leave after he was arrested and subsequently replaced for allegedly spending $540 of his small-town church’s money for his personal use.
IHOPKC announces new investigators for Mike Bickle allegations
Eric Volz, International House of Prayer Kansas City’s new spokesperson, who serves as managing director of international crisis agency, David House, announced Sunday that the leaders of the ministry have hired a new third-party investigator to review allegations of abuse against founder Mike Bickle.
Former pastor who killed wife, attacked daughter wants to stop mental health treatment
A former Alabama pastor who was institutionalized and ordered to undergo mental health treatment after he was found not guilty of killing his wife and attacking his daughter by reason of mental defect in 2013 is now seeking to stop his treatment so he can live close to his family again, but a judge has insisted he continue getting help.