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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Ex-Harvest pastor sexually abused, trafficked children in Romania: lawsuit
Three men have filed federal lawsuits claiming they were sexually abused and trafficked by a former Harvest Christian Fellowship pastor, Paul Havsgaard, while living in the now-defunct church-run children’s homes in Romania. The filings also accuse the church's founder, Greg Laurie, and missions pastor Richard Schutte of negligence in failing to prevent the abuse and covering it up for 20 years.
Judge denies motion to dismiss lawsuit accusing Gateway Church, Robert Morris of fraud
U.S. District Judge Amos L. Mazzant has denied a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit accusing Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, and its embattled founder, Robert Morris, of misappropriating church funds.
Assemblies of God seek to stop deposition of CEO Doug Clay in Chi Alpha abuse lawsuit
Lawyers for the Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, have asked a Texas District Court Judge to quash a pending deposition of the organization’s General Superintendent and CEO Doug Clay in the ongoing Chi Alpha Campus Ministries lawsuit.
Pastor, wife who sold worthless cryptocurrency to Christians ordered to repay $3.4M
A Denver judge has ordered online pastor Eligio "Eli" Regalado and his wife, Kaitlyn, who sold some $3.2 million in worthless cryptocurrency to their Christian followers, to repay nearly $3.4 million in restitution.
Billionaire Bishop Edir Macedo sells luxury condo in Porsche Design Tower for $13M
Bishop Edir Macedo Bezerra, the billionaire founder of the neo-Pentecostal Universal Church of the Kingdom of God who Brazilian authorities once accused of using church funds to enrich himself, has sold his luxury condo unit in the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, for $13 million.
John McKinzie, lead pastor of Hope Fellowship, resigns over ‘sexual sin and moral failure’
John McKinzie, the lead pastor of the multi-campus Hope Fellowship in North Texas, who announced the firing of one of the megachurch’s student pastors for “inappropriate contact with a minor” earlier this year, has resigned after confessing to his own “sexual sin and moral failure.”
Jamal Bryant’s megachurch gets unemployed churchgoers 300 job offers after altar call
Following an altar call offering prayers for unemployed churchgoers seeking jobs earlier this month, Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, announced that the church has since connected some 300 of them with job offers.
Brooklyn Tabernacle Pastor Jim Cymbala rebukes Christians celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination
Senior Pastor of the multi-racial Brooklyn Tabernacle, Jim Cymbala, condemned the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk as an act of hate on Sunday and rebuked Christians who have been celebrating his death as anti-Christian.
Pastor Frederick D. Haynes III takes leave of absence after undisclosed medical diagnosis
Pastor and social activist Frederick D. Haynes III, who leads the Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, has taken a temporary break from his pulpit following a recent undisclosed medical diagnosis for which he is expected to undergo surgery.
Country music star John Rich claims Joel Osteen will never preach about End Times like Billy Graham
Country music singer John Rich has claimed Pastor Joel Osteen of not preaching about the End Times from Matthew 24 like the late evangelist Billy Graham because he doesn’t want to make his congregation uncomfortable.
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