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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When your faith makes you an enemy of the state
It was July 20, 1999. Michael Yu, an accountant and Falun Gong practitioner remembers what happened in China well. Then Chinese President Jiang Zemin had declared millions of Yu’s fellow Falun Gong practitioners a threat to the government. A warrant was also issued for the arrest of Li Hongzhi who had founded the spiritual movement only seven years earlier in 1992.
How big business is driving the Uyghur genocide in China
Silence and ignorance from corporations have become "an emblematic problem" as governments push back on human rights abuses committed by the Chinese government amid the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
Texas pastor allegedly killed by daughter during prayer session
Pastor Gloria Jordan, the former leader of First Pentecostal Church in Wichita Falls, Texas, whose death authorities initially ruled to be natural causes, is now believed to have been killed by her daughter during a prayer session.
Whoopi Goldberg suspended from ‘The View’ for saying Holocaust 'not about race'
“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg was suspended by ABC News for two weeks after saying that the Holocaust was "not about race," sparking vociferous commentary on social media.
Younger Evangelicals have a more ‘global mindset,’ broader interests in charitable giving: study
When it comes to charitable giving, Evangelicals over 40 tend to focus more on domestic efforts and have formed preferences for what they want to support. For their younger counterparts, however, a new study shows donors have a more “global mindset” and a broader range of causes they want to support with their dollars.
‘Sweet’ Brooklyn pastor found murdered at home where son confessed: 'I slit her up'
Tracey Sydnor, a beloved Brooklyn mother who was appointed as the administrative pastor of The Cathedral of Hope Upper Room Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant just over two months ago was found stabbed to death in her home Saturday. Her 40-year-old son admitted that he “slit her up,” the New York Police Department said.
Brian Houston’s stepping down from helm of Hillsong rings hollow for some
As Hillsong Church Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston announced Sunday that he is stepping down from his role for all of 2022 as he faces a criminal charge of allegedly concealing sex abuse committed by his father decades earlier, the significance of the move rings hollow for some who have legally tangled with the evangelical network over abuse.
Venue Church struggles as Pastor Tavner Smith takes time off amid affair allegations
Pastor Tavner Smith’s Venue Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is seeking volunteers as several worshipers and employees have left the once-popular megachurch amid allegations Smith was intimately involved with a church staffer while in the process of divorcing his wife, Danielle.
TD Jakes’ eldest daughter Cora says she’s ending marriage to husband of 10 years, rapper SkiiVentura
Just over a decade after wedding her husband, rapper Richard Brandon Coleman, who goes by the stage name SkiiVentura, Cora Jakes Coleman, the eldest daughter of megachurch Pastor T.D. Jakes, has announced that she is ending her marriage.
Black church fund project gets $20M on MLK Day
As many churches struggle to stay open amid the COVID-19 pandemic with dwindling membership and finances, The National Trust for Historic Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, received a $20 million gift on Monday to help preserve the legacy of the black church in America.
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