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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The Washington National Cathedral has denied allegations that a now viral video clip circulating on social media shows a black clergyman delivering a defiant and subtle snub to President Donald Trump during a recent prayer service held at the church.
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Petr Jasek, a respected Czech missionary who is also a journalist, was found guilty of espionage and sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Sudanese court on Sunday for taking video footage showing the persecution of Christians by government authorities.
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Gospel music star Kirk Franklin and his youngest daughter Kennedy got embroiled in a war of words with a Twitter user Sunday over President Donald Trump's controversial executive order on refugees. The musician issued a stern warning to the user after he felt his daughter was threatened.
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Jihadist groups said Sunday that President Donald Trump's controversial executive order on immigration is proof that the United States is at war with Islam.
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The average age of Protestant pastors in the U.S. has increased by a decade over the last 25 years, putting it just six years below the current Minimum Retirement Age of 62, according to a recent study by the Barna Group.
Pastor Caught in Bed With Parishioner's Wife Won't Resign Because God Has Already Forgiven Him
A Tallahassee, Florida, pastor who was forced to flee naked after he was caught having an affair with a parishioner's wife says he will not step down from his position because God has already forgiven him and his wife is standing by him.
Eddie Long's Family Defends Him as Man Who Loved Unconditionally, Says Church Will Go On
Led by their quiet matriarch, Vanessa Long, the family of the late Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, defended his legacy as a man who loved unconditionally and rallied members of the megachurch he founded to "get back to the business of ministry."
Philippines President Says He Was Abused by Catholic Priests, Church Is Full of Feces
Sharp-tongued Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who once called former president Barack Obama the son of a whore, ripped into the Catholic Church Tuesday and dismissed its officials as corrupt and full of feces.
Pew-Making Business Swindles Churches in 6 States of More Than $250K
Custom Church Interiors, an Arizona company that boasts a more than 50-year-old reputation of providing "superior worship furnishings for churches, synagogues, funeral homes and courtrooms," is now under fire from churches in at least six states that say the company fleeced them of more than $250,000 then disappeared.
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