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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Marvin Winans’ Perfecting Church sued by Detroit over stalled church project
The future home of the famed pastor’s congregation located on a sprawling piece of prime real estate in Michigan remains incomplete after 18 years and the city has filed a lawsuit to get it done.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams says it was a mistake to take prayer out of public schools
Just over a year after creating his Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships, New York City Mayor Eric Adams urged faith leaders to boldly exercise their faith in in the public square and argued that it was a mistake for the Supreme Court to ban prayer in public schools.
Former youth pastor gets 60 years in prison for sex crimes involving boys
A former Southern Baptist youth pastor was sentenced to 60 years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to 13 counts of sexual assault and child pornography charges involving six different boys.
Hilarion Heagy, Eastern Catholic monk, renounces Christianity for Islam
Hilarion Heagy, an Eastern Catholic monk and priest, recently renounced Christianity and embraced Islam triggering multiple headlines in Islamic media and consternation among some who knew him to be a devout Christ follower.
As vigil continues for Jimmy Carter, many celebrate his legacy of faith
As former President Jimmy Carter entered at-home hospice over the weekend and the nation prepares for the inevitable, many who know him, including his pastor at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia, agree that a big part of his legacy is his exemplary life of faith.
Journalists mourn as reporter is fatally shot, colleague injured at crime scene in Florida
Journalists around the country mourned the loss of a Spectrum News 13 reporter who was fatally shot Wednesday while covering a murder scene in Pine Hills, Florida.
Pastor, congregation stop gunmen in church with prayer
A gang of armed young men who allegedly entered the All Creation Northview Holiness Family Church in Ferguson, Missouri, to commit a robbery, had their plans thwarted when the pastor and his congregation showered them with prayer.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, management firm fined $5M for hiding $32 billion
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its affiliated investment manager, Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc., have been fined a collective $5 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for using shell companies to obscure the size of their investment portfolio, which grew to about $32 billion in 2018.
Husband of retired children’s ministry director accused of sexually abusing minor in church
Leaders of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, are calling on individuals whose children have ever participated in the church’s children’s ministry to contact the church or local law enforcement if they have ever experienced abuse in the ministry after an allegation of sexual abuse in the ministry.
Tributes pour in for Christian Atsu after soccer star is found dead under earthquake rubble in Turkey
Nearly two weeks after he went missing following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey on Feb. 6, the body of devout Christian soccer star Christian Atsu was recovered from rubble Saturday in Hatay Province in southern Turkey. He was 31.
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