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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A defense attorney for Rock Church International Pastor John Blanchard initially struck a deal with Chesterfield County Commonwealth's Attorney Stacey Davenport of Virginia to do a psychosexual evaluation and sex offender-related counseling in exchange for tabling a child prostitution case against him.
Pastor charged for allegedly texting minor about ‘wanting to smell her underwear’
Fred McCoy Gammon Jr., an Oklahoma pastor accused of sending several sexually suggestive text messages to a minor, including an alleged desire to “smell her underwear,” has been charged with child sexual abuse but insists he is innocent.
8 witnesses testified against Hillsong founder Brian Houston in court case, wife Bobbie reveals
Eight witnesses testified against Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston in court late last year as he faces criminal charges of concealing his father's child abuse. Houston was the only person who testified in his defense, his wife, Bobbie, revealed in a social media post.
10% of high school students attempted suicide in 2021; more than half of girls sad or hopeless: CDC
Poor mental health and suicidal ideation and attempts have increased among high school students over the last decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and more than half of girls struggle with “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness.”
Televangelist Peter Popoff is selling his California mansion for $8.1M
Controversial televangelist and prosperity preacher Peter Popoff, who amassed millions of dollars through his ministry hawking "debt cancelation" and healing "miracle water" advertised as a "powerful biblical point of contact," is now selling his California mansion for $8.1 million.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Christian Super Bowl ad ‘fascism’ and sparks a firestorm of reactions
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., sparked a still raging firestorm of reactions Sunday night when she compared an advertisement about Jesus during the Super Bowl to “fascism.”
Before shooting his teacher, 6-year-old allegedly threatened to kill student with gun at recess
Shortly before he shot his teacher as she sat at a reading table in his class at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia on Jan. 6, a troubled 6-year-old boy allegedly showed off his mother’s gun to another student and threatened to shoot him if he told anyone according to a notice of claim filed on behalf of the injured teacher.
Christian Soccer star Christian Atsu still missing after massive earthquake in Turkey
Despite reports that devout Christian soccer star and current Hatayspor player Christian Atsu was rescued alive from the rubble of his apartment building after a massive earthquake in Turkey on Monday, a team official confirmed Wednesday that they have still not found him.
Memphis police officer praised for talking suicidal teenage father off bridge
A Memphis police officer is now receiving high praise from the public for convincing a suicidal teenage father not to end his life on the I-40 Mississippi River Bridge last Thursday.
Christian soccer star Christian Atsu buried under rubble after massive earthquake in Turkey
Hours after scoring a last-minute goal to give his Turkish team Hatayspor a 1-nil victory over Kasımpaşa on Sunday, devout Christian soccer star Christian Atsu is now among an unknown number of people still buried under rubble in the aftermath of a massive earthquake that left at least 2,600 people dead in Turkey and Syria.
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