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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Melvin Banks Sr., founder of largest black-owned Christian publishing company, dies at 86
Melvin E. Banks Sr., the founder of Urban Ministries, Inc., the largest independent, African American-owned and operated Christian media and publishing company, passed away Saturday at 86.
John MacArthur’s men’s conference postponed after threats from California officials
John MacArthur’s Shepherds’ Conference for men in church leadership, which was expected to draw some 3,000 attendees to the megachurch in Sun Valley, California, next month, has been postponed due to “ongoing litigation" and "threats" from the state.
Brian Houston announces plans to revamp management at Hillsong Church
Citing the denomination’s rapid growth and a desire to make way for younger leadership and a more effective organizational structure, Hillsong Church Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston announced Sunday that he and his wife, Bobbie, have decided to bring on more support at the top.
Frederick KC Price’s youngest daughter remembers him as her ‘first Valentine’ in touching tribute
Two days after her father's death from COVID-19, Stephanie Price Buchanan, the youngest daughter of the late Frederick K.C. Price, remembered the beloved televangelist in a touching tribute in which she called him her “first Valentine.”
Chrishan and Danielle Jeyaratnam to replace Carl Lentz as new leaders of Hillsong NYC
Hillsong Church’s Global Senior Pastor Brian Houston announced Sunday that Chrishan Jeyaratnam and his wife, Danielle, will replace Carl Lentz as leaders of Hillsong East Coast following the sex scandal that brought down the church’s former leader.
Married Hillsong Church administrator sexually assaulted Philadelphia pastor’s daughter: report
Around the time they received complaints about inappropriate sexual relations between staff and volunteers at Hillsong NYC, the embattled Australia-based Hillsong Church was in the throes of investigating a sexual assault of a pastor’s daughter at its headquarters a new report reveals.
Defiant Paula White slams Christian establishment: ‘Your opinion doesn’t matter’
Former President Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White has slammed the American Christian establishment for mischaracterizing her and her ministry, singling out the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission head Russell Moore for branding her a “heretic.”
Husband and wife founders of Miami megachurch spar over possible $120M estate in messy divorce
Apostle Guillermo Maldonado and Prophetess Ana Maldonado, the husband and wife team that birthed the Miami-based King Jesus International Ministry, one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing Hispanic churches, are now sparring over an estate court papers say could be worth as much as $120 million.
Kenneth Copeland doesn’t believe coronavirus can kill televangelist friend Frederick KC Price
After a weekslong bout with COVID-19 left famed televangelist Frederick KC Price hospitalized with a ravaged heart, lungs and kidneys sparking a global call for prayers, fellow televangelist Kenneth Copeland says he doesn’t believe the disease can kill his longtime friend.
Sanitation worker thanks God for helping him save 10-y-o girl from sex offender
An emotional Louisiana sanitation worker praised God profusely Monday for helping him save a 10-year-old girl from a registered sex offender who police allege abducted her a day earlier.
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