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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Judge Orders AIDS-Afflicted Pastor Who Had Sex With Female Members in Church Removed From Pulpit After Colorful Hearing
Pastor Juan D. McFarland of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, was forced to relinquish his pulpit in shame by a local judge Thursday after delivering an incriminating confession that he has full blown AIDS, slept with female members inside the church, abused drugs and church money while declaring he would not leave the ministry in recent weeks.
Christian Talk Radio Host Josh Kimbrell Charged With Sex Crime Against 3-Y-O Boy; Supporters Defend Character
Josh Kimbrell, 29, a Christian talk radio host and chairman of the Palmetto Conservative Alliance Foundation in South Carolina, was arrested and charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a 3-year-old boy. His supporters, however, have shot down the charge, saying it stems from a bitter custody battle between him and his ex-wife.
'I Don't Want to Die,' Says Brittany Maynard, Cancer Afflicted Woman Scheduled for Assisted Suicide
After sparking a vociferous debate about assisted suicide when she announced in a viral YouTube video earlier this month that she will commit suicide under Oregon's Death With Dignity Act on Nov. 1 to escape her terminal brain cancer, 29-year-old Brittany Maynard recently declared "I don't want to die."
Dr. Daniel Varga, Official at Faith-Based Texas Hospital, Apologizes for Mistakes in Diagnosing Thomas Eric Duncan
Dr. Daniel Varga, chief clinical officer for Texas Health Resources, the umbrella medical group for Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital where now deceased Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan died and two nurses were infected with the deadly virus after treating him, apologized Thursday for what he said were mistakes in his initial diagnosis.
Amber Vinson, 2nd Ebola Infected Nurse Called CDC Several Times Before Flying; 'Somebody Dropped the Ball,' Says Health Official
As President Barack Obama attempted to calm fears about the spread of the deadly Ebola virus Wednesday, one health official has charged that someone at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "dropped the ball" in allowing Amber Vinson, the second nurse infected with the virus to fly.
City of Houston Demands That Pastors Turn Over Sermons Addressing Homosexuality or Gay Mayor Annise Parker
A group of pastors in Houston, Texas are now fighting to block subpoenas from the city's lawyers demanding that they turn over all sermons addressing homosexuality, gender identity or the city's first openly lesbian mayor, Annise Parker.
Atheist Gets Nearly $2 Million in Court Settlement Because He Was Forced to Attend Religious Drug Treatment Program
A Shasta County, California, atheist who charged that his civil rights were violated when he was sent back to prison for protesting a religious drug-treatment program while on parole was recently awarded nearly $2 million in a court settlement for his troubles.
Televangelist Ernest Angley Accused of Pushing Vasectomies, Abortions; Inspecting Genitals
A number of former members of televangelist Ernest Angley's Grace Cathedral church in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, have accused him of being a homosexual and running a cult which encourages female members to get abortions and male members vasectomies. His church said Tuesday, however that, "it's a bunch of lies."
Newest Ebola Patient Took Frontier Flight 1143 With 132 Passengers Day Before Diagnosis; World Has Less Than 60 Days to Control Virus Says UN
A day before she was diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus, 26-year-old Amber Vinson, the second Dallas healthcare worker now quarantined, took Frontier Airlines flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas and now all 132 passengers who were on that flight with her are being asked to contact the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
'Miracle' Baby Dumped in Trash by 13-Y-O Mother Found Alive; 'She Was Going to Die' Said Couple Who Saved Her and Now Want to Adopt
A newborn baby girl who police say was dumped in a trash receptacle by her 13-year-old mother could soon find herself a new home in the arms of the loving couple who helped rescue her in Merced, California, last Thursday.
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