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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Leader of global La Luz del Mundo church charged with abusing generations of church members
Naason Joaquin Garcia, leader of the global La Luz del Mundo megachurch, who is already serving a 16-year, eight-month sentence in California for the sexual assault of three minors, is facing new federal charges alleging that he sexually exploited women and children in the church for generations.
Chet Snyder, The Journey Fairfield pastor, facing multiple sexual assault charges
Chet Snyder, pastor of The Journey church in Fairfield, Illinois, who is also the head girls’ volleyball coach at Frontier Community College, is now facing multiple sexual assault charges from two young men, including the aggravated sexual abuse of a minor.
Pastor Aaron Williams Jr. arrested for sex act in SUV with woman who is not his wife
Aaron Williams Jr., an aspiring politician and pastor of Maddox Memorial Church of God in Christ in Mansfield, Ohio, is set to be arraigned in Mansfield Municipal Court on Tuesday after he was arrested last month for allegedly engaging in a sex act with a woman who is not his wife in the back on an SUV at the Clearfork Reservoir Park.
Sophia Forchas, 12-year-old girl shot in head, could be third fatality of Annunciation Church shooting: doctor
Sophia Forchas, a 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head during a mass shooting while praying at the Annunciation Catholic Church in downtown Minneapolis on Aug. 27, could become the third Annunciation School student to die from the attack, according to her doctor.
DHS announced $110M security grant for houses of worship week before church shooting
A week before the deadly Aug. 27 mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Department of Homeland Security awarded $110 million to more than 600 faith-based organizations to beef up their security.
Pen Peery, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte, ousted after confessing adultery
After more than a decade serving as the senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Charlotte in North Carolina, sixth-generation Presbyterian minister Pendleton Barnes Peery has been ousted for breaking his marriage and ordination vows.
Gospel singer Vicki Yohe claims ex-lover, televangelist David E Taylor, slept with at least 100 women
Grammy-nominated gospel artist Vicki Yohe claims her embattled former lover, televangelist and self-styled “apostle,” David E. Taylor who was recently arrested by federal authorities, has slept with at least 100 women while doing ministry, and exploited her for money and access to her 1.2 million Facebook followers.
Journey Fort Worth Pastor Diego Fuller denies sexually assaulting former parishioner after arrest
Alonzo Diego Fuller, the founding pastor of Journey Fort Worth Church in Texas has “categorically” denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a former parishioner after he was arrested by police in Fort Worth.
Woman who fatally shot Memphis Pastor Ricky Floyd indicted on elevated charges
A woman previously charged with the fatal shooting of Ricky Floyd, the late senior lead pastor of Pursuit of God Church, during a religious dispute outside a bar in Memphis, Tennessee, is now facing elevated charges as investigators question her claim of self-defense.
Mom killed husband, 2 kids, herself week after employer alerted police to embezzlement
About a week before New Hampshire mother, Emily Long, was found dead inside her Madbury home along with two of her three children and her terminally ill husband, her employer reported her to police for stealing more than $600,000 from his business.
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