
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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Cultivation Church reveals lead pastor’s wife had affairs with male staffer, female member
Cultivation Church, a multi-campus Assemblies of God congregation in Louisiana, announced to its congregation Sunday that the lead pastor’s wife was removed from leadership for engaging in a two-year affair with a married staffer.

Church asked to leave reservation after pastor calls Sun Dance 'idol worship'
Sarah Lucas, a lead pastor of the Foundations for Nations Church, which she co-founded with her husband, Jason, on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, is facing criticism and protests after calling the sacred Sun Dance ritual of the Northern Arapaho Tribe “idol worship” in a recent sermon.

Televangelists Andre and Jenny Roebert to divorce on 'biblical grounds' after 34 years of marriage
André and Jenny Roebert, founders of the global Christian television network Faith Broadcasting Network (FBN), known on-air as MyFaithTV, headquartered in East London, South Africa, are getting a divorce after 34 years of marriage on “biblical grounds.”

Church says prayer prevented ‘worse’ outcome after 5 people shot at funeral survive
Leaders of Greater Love Tabernacle Church in Detroit, Michigan, said prayer prevented a shooting from “being worse” after five people were shot outside the building during a funeral service last Friday and survived.

Raid on Pastor Greg Locke’s home part of IRS, US Attorney probe, former staffer claims
A recent pre-dawn raid by federal agents on the home of Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke is part of an ongoing probe by the Internal Revenue Service alleging he misappropriated church funds, a former staffer and police claimed.

Pastor Brian Carn’s Kingdom City Church evicted from Charlotte building
Self-styled prophet Pastor Brian Carn Jr. and congregants of the Charlotte campus of his Kingdom City Church in North Carolina have been evicted for failing to pay nearly $76,000 in rent.

Pastor reflects year after wife, daughter murdered at church in shocking attack
A year after his wife and daughter were fatally shot inside his church and he survived being shot several times, Jerry Gumm, the 82-year-old pastor of Richmond Road Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, remains adamant that the tragedy will not stop him from praising the Lord.

Woman says God saved her life by telling her to finish movie before tree crashed into bedroom
A Florida woman is singing praises to God for saving her life after He stopped her from going to bed at her usual time when a tree crashed into her bedroom during a thunderstorm.

Life Church Pastor Nathan Peternel returns to public ministry after restoration
Appearing both humbled and grateful, Nathan Peternel, lead pastor of the multi-campus Life Church in Pendleton, Indiana, has returned to his pulpit following four months of restoration for violating the Assemblies of God bylaws concerning recording an intimate woman between him and his wife.

Pastor found guilty of raping married parishioner he promised ‘revival’
Eddy Noelsaint, a Florida pastor who was accused of drugging and raping a married parishioner after promising her a “spiritual revival” in his home, has been found guilty of four counts of sexual battery.


























