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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19-Year-Old Student at Christian College Bleeds to Death After Secretly Delivering Stillborn Baby in Dorm Room
A 19-year-old student who may not have known she was pregnant bled to death in her dorm room at the Christian-focused Benedict College in Columbia, S.C., after secretly delivering a stillborn baby.
Was Popular Youth Pastor Matt Pitt's Arrest About an Honorary Sheriff's Badge, or Greed, Money, Politics and Lies?
The explosive and controversial arrest of popular Youth Pastor Matt Pitt of The Basement has very little to do with an honorary sheriff's badge and a lot to do with greed, money, politics and lies according to Pitt's lawyer and security director for The Basement.
Teens Help Save Dallas Woman Kidnapped by Stranger Armed With Gun and Butcher Knife
A Dallas, Texas woman who was kidnapped in her own car by a stranger armed with a gun and butcher knife is grateful today after two teenagers checking out her attractiveness from a nearby car realized she was being kidnapped and called police who completed the save.
Rand Paul on Syria: 'America Should Only Go to War to Win…US Should Not Fight a War to Save Face'
As President Barack Obama seeks to shore up support for the hotly debated plan to launch a military strike against Syria, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) charged on Wednesday that military action is the wrong approach to the Syria dilemma and he won't support it.
'Batwoman' Co-Authors Quit After DC Comics 'Prohibited' Lesbian Marriage
Co-authors of the DC comic "Batwoman," J.H. Williams and W. Haden Blackman, have announced they will be leaving the comic after the release of Issue 26 in December due creative issues with DC over the comic including a decision to nix the portrayal of Batwoman's lesbian wedding.
Drug Addicted Pastor Charged With Breaking Into Former Church Member's Home and Stealing Her Pain Medication
A pastor from Smyrna, Tenn., who escaped prison in 2011 for stealing drugs from the home of one of his church members, was caught last month trying to do the same thing to another former congregant and he's now stewing in jail as the court decides what to do with him.
'Where Was Your God?' Man Pumped Six Bullets in Body of Atheist Who Asked Where Was God When His Dad Died
A 33-year-old California man is now facing a prison sentence of 126 years to life after he was found guilty of murdering his atheist friend who mocked him about his faith in God, and asked where He was when his father died. The murder occurred while the friends were drinking, snorting cocaine and playing video games.
High School Soccer Player Used Broomstick in Horrific Rape of Freshman Boy at Sports Camp, Say Prosecutors
A Massachusetts judge ordered 17-year-old Somerville High School soccer player Galileo Mondol remanded in jail until a dangerousness hearing Friday, after prosecutors revealed that he watched as a 16-year-old student used a broomstick to rape a freshman boy at a sports camp two Sundays ago.
Young Love of Old Pastor Cut Short in Deadly Crash That Kills Him and New Wife After Just a Year of Marriage
A beloved Pentecostal preacher from Biddeford, Maine, who thought he would never find love again after his wife died in 2009, was killed Saturday in a tragic car crash along with the woman who made him change his mind to marry again just a year ago.
Gay Activists Used 'Mafia Tactics' to Shut Down Bakery, Says Christian Couple
Speaking publicly for the first time since gay activists forced a shutdown of their bakery because they refused to bake a wedding cake for two lesbians, Christian couple Aaron and Melissa Klein said their business was killed with "mafia tactics."
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