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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Rock legend Alice Cooper who has drawn inspiration from horror films and vaudeville to shock his millions of fans around the world, is really a devout Christian who reads the Bible and pray daily to stay sober.
Survivor wants Atlanta spa shooter charged with killing 8 to be ‘ultimately judged' by God
Elcias Hernandez-Ortiz, the only person to survive being shot by former Southern Baptist youth leader Robert Aaron Long, 22, during a March shooting spree that left eight people dead at three massage parlors in Georgia says he wants him to be “ultimately judged" by God as a local prosecutor announced she plans to seek the death penalty for his crimes.
Senior pastor, football coach arrested for relationship with 17-y-o student
Miami-Dade County Public Schools confirmed Thursday that they have fired Edward Williams Sr., a popular football coach and leader of the Jesus People Full of Faith Ministries after he was arrested for being involved in an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old student at Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School in Florida.
Man stabs wife in ‘brutal attack’ in argument over attending church on Mother’s Day
A Texas mother was repeatedly stabbed in a “brutal attack” by her husband during an argument over attending church on Mother’s Day and he is now on the lam police say.
Woman killed after attending church without husband for first time in 36 years
An Illinois husband is now grieving after his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident after she attended church without him for the first time in 36 years on Mother’s Day.
10-y-o Christian refugee is now America’s newest chess master
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a once-homeless Christian refugee in New York City who fled persecution with his family from Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, is now America’s newest national chess master at the age of 10. And he and his family are thanking God for the achievement.
Saddleback Church 'in violation’ of SBC doctrine by ordaining women pastors, Al Mohler says
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler says Rick Warren's California-based Saddleback Church is in "direct violation" of denominational teaching for ordaining three women pastors and is calling for the denomination to reaffirm its teaching.
Global Fire Ministries founder Jeff Jansen leaves wife to ‘pursue his own desires’
Global Fire Ministries founder Jeff Jansen, who was among several charismatic voices who prophesied that former President Donald Trump would win a second term, has left his wife and family to “pursue his own desires" and remains “unrepentant and unremorseful,” his ministry announced.
Controversial televangelist Ernest Angley dies at 99
Members of Grace Cathedral in Ohio wept openly in the sanctuary as leaders announced the death of their controversial founding pastor, televangelist Ernest Angley Friday. He was 99.
Most Christian and Missionary Alliance leaders say qualified women should get pastor title too
A majority of leaders in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, a denomination with a statement of faith that lines up with the majority of evangelical Christianity say qualified women in ministry should also be allowed to use the title “Reverend” instead of just men.
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