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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Ex-GOP Senator Rick Santorum Says New Role as CEO of EchoLight Studios Shouldn't Be a Surprise
Former Pennsylvania Senator and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum has joined the movie industry as the new CEO of faith-based EchoLight Studios and he doesn't think anyone should be surprised by it.
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In an evening wrapped in fun, pomp and ministry, a Christian academic who prayed that her first attempt at writing Christian fiction would find its way into America's public schools won big on Monday night at the 2013 Christy Awards gala held in St. Louis, Mo.
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When former "American Idol" finalist, now country music singer, Danny Gokey's first wife Sophia died just a month before he auditioned for the iconic show in 2008, he wanted to wallow in the pain of a loss he thought he would never get over.
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Atlanta's oldest black church, Friendship Baptist, is locked in a price war with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed after he told them he could not afford the church's $24.5 million asking price to relocate their church for the development of a new $1 billion football stadium for the Atlanta Falcons.
USCIS No Longer Wants Proof of Church Membership From Atheist; Grants Her Citizenship
An atheist woman whom the USCIS asked to deliver proof of membership to a church by Friday or risk the rejection of her U.S. citizenship application after she declined to "take up arms to defend the United States" on moral grounds, was relieved of the request by the agency and approved for citizenship by the agency on Thursday.
More Than 1,000 Attend Memorial for Popular Pastor Killed in Deadly Crash Minutes Before Father's Day
He was a worshipper and his friends and family celebrated his life exactly the way he would have wanted it – with worship, forgiveness and simply loving the Lord.
Nigeria's Redeemed Christian Church of God Dedicates $15.5M Pavilion Center in Texas
A 25-year-old vision revealed by the Holy Spirit to Pastor E.A Adeboye of the Nigerian Redeemed Christian Church of God came to pass when his church dedicated its $15.5 million Pavilion Center on 800 acres of prairie land in Hunt County, Texas on Wednesday.
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