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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Amid tough times for humanitarian aid agencies, World Vision’s CEO is absorbing fear and exuding hope
Earlier this year when Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that a significant majority of programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development would be canceled, it sent shockwaves of uncertainty through the global community of non-governmental organizations.
Diego Fuller, pastor accused of sexual assault, says he'll partially step back from pulpit
Founding pastor of Journey Fort Worth Church in Texas, Alonzo Diego Fuller, says he will only partially step away from his pulpit due to financial constraints, after denying recent allegations that he sexually assaulted a former parishioner.
NY Gov. Kathy Hochul under fire for telling black church not to spend inflation checks at 'liquor store'
New York's Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul is facing criticism from her opponents for telling black congregants at a megachurch in Buffalo not to spend their upcoming inflation refund checks at the "liquor store." She insists, however, that the jab was a "lighthearted joke," and the church's pastor has come to her defense.
Dead Evergreen High School shooter was ‘radicalized': police
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Golden, Colorado, has revealed the identity of the teenager who shot two of his classmates at the Jefferson County High School before fatally shooting himself on Wednesday.
Leader of global La Luz del Mundo church charged with abusing generations of church members
Naason Joaquin Garcia, leader of the global La Luz del Mundo megachurch, who is already serving a 16-year, eight-month sentence in California for the sexual assault of three minors, is facing new federal charges alleging that he sexually exploited women and children in the church for generations.
Chet Snyder, The Journey Fairfield pastor, facing multiple sexual assault charges
Chet Snyder, pastor of The Journey church in Fairfield, Illinois, who is also the head girls’ volleyball coach at Frontier Community College, is now facing multiple sexual assault charges from two young men, including the aggravated sexual abuse of a minor.
Pastor Aaron Williams Jr. arrested for sex act in SUV with woman who is not his wife
Aaron Williams Jr., an aspiring politician and pastor of Maddox Memorial Church of God in Christ in Mansfield, Ohio, is set to be arraigned in Mansfield Municipal Court on Tuesday after he was arrested last month for allegedly engaging in a sex act with a woman who is not his wife in the back on an SUV at the Clearfork Reservoir Park.
Sophia Forchas, 12-year-old girl shot in head, could be third fatality of Annunciation Church shooting: doctor
Sophia Forchas, a 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head during a mass shooting while praying at the Annunciation Catholic Church in downtown Minneapolis on Aug. 27, could become the third Annunciation School student to die from the attack, according to her doctor.
DHS announced $110M security grant for houses of worship week before church shooting
A week before the deadly Aug. 27 mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Department of Homeland Security awarded $110 million to more than 600 faith-based organizations to beef up their security.
Pen Peery, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, ousted after confessing adultery
After more than a decade serving as the senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte in North Carolina, sixth-generation Presbyterian minister Pendleton Barnes Peery has been ousted for breaking his marriage and ordination vows.
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