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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Court orders Pastor Tony Spell to keep 50-yard distance from man he beat up over threats
Unless he’s checking his mailbox, Pastor Tony Spell of Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been ordered to go no closer than 50 yards to the home of a 20-year-old neighbor he beat up last month for allegedly threatening to rape and murder his family and harm his congregation.
Pastor Greg Locke says 'we have nothing to hide' after feds raid home
Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke said he and his family "have nothing to hide" after some 60 federal agents ransacked their home in a pre-dawn raid in an investigation alleging he misappropriated church funds and other alleged crimes.
Jamal Bryant prays for family of Nolan Wells as death investigation continues
Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, led his congregation in prayer for the family of Nolan Wells on Sunday as authorities continue to investigate the death of the 18-year-old whose body was found near Horn Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast a week ago.
Lindsey Graham’s pastor remembers him as patriot who ‘loved America’
Members of Corinth Baptist Church in Seneca, South Carolina, and their pastor, Tim Tate, grieved the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham Sunday as a brother in Christ who “loved America.”
Nolan Wells’ mother says she asked God for help getting answers about his death
With the support of civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton, her legal team led by attorney Ben Crump, and her husband, Christine Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, revealed Friday that she prayed for help getting answers about the death of her 18-year-old son, and she believes God answered.
5 pastors react to the death of Nolan Wells on Horn Island
Just days after 18-year-old Nolan Wells was found dead near Horn Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Monday after traveling there by boat with a group of friends on July 4, a flood of reactions have been emerging on social media as his family calls for a full and transparent investigation.
Parents of Nolan Wells ask for prayers, answers as police investigate Horn Island death
Christine Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, who was found dead near Horn Island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast Monday after traveling there by boat with a group of friends on July 4, is asking for answers and prayers as questions swirl around his death.
Toddler found alive in morgue after being declared dead
An Arizona toddler who was mistakenly declared dead after he nearly drowned in his family’s backyard pool in February was later found alive in the morgue at Dignity Health Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, according to local police.
Ex-Rhema Bible Church co-pastor Craig Hagin convicted of disturbing the peace
Craig W. Hagin, former co-pastor of Rhema Bible Church in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, has been convicted of disturbing the peace — just over three months after he and his now-estranged wife, Mia Hagin, were arrested for “animal cruelty”.
High-rise sags, buckles in Manhattan forcing evacuation of Episcopal Church HQ, other buildings
The Episcopal Church's Church Center building at 815 Second Avenue in Manhattan was among several buildings evacuated Tuesday after structural columns buckled and several floors sagged in the nearby 37-story former Pfizer headquarters, which is being converted from a commercial office building into a residential development.
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