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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Sean Feucht claims vindication as judge dismisses lawsuit over $250K donation
Activist missionary and worship leader Sean Feucht celebrated a “day of vindication” Monday after a California judge dismissed without prejudice a lawsuit filed by Christian philanthropist and businessman Steve Bray, accusing him of misspending a $250,000 donation he made to his ministry more than three years ago.
Father of ‘miracle’ baby trusting God as hospital discharges son nearly 1 year after birth
An extremely premature baby who was born weighing less than 2 pounds at just 24 weeks and five days gestation nearly a year ago was discharged from North Memorial Health's neonatal intensive care unit in Maple Grove, Minnesota, and now thriving in the care of his thankful parents.
Christian groups preach Jesus at 9/11 memorial amid carnival of distractions
In the first five months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Lower Manhattan, New Yorkers could not get enough of the tracts and Bibles Pastor Mike Veach of First Bible Church of Staten Island and his team distributed as they sought to relieve the city from the trauma of the tragedy.
9/11 advocate asks Trump to bring Saudi Arabia to justice at 25th memorial
Terry Strada, whose husband died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, called on President Donald Trump to bring the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to justice and called out former presidents in attendance at the 25th 9/11 Memorial Friday.
New York marks 25 years after 9/11 in spectacle of hope and grief
On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, New Yorkers and people from around the world converged in a spectacle of hope and grief at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
Former Allen University board member sues board, AME Church, alleging fraud
A former trustees at Allen University has filed a lawsuit accusing trustees and church officials of failing to investigate, or refusing to investigate, multiple allegations of financial misappropriation and misuse of school property.
Pastor Lorenzo Sewell declares ‘enough is enough’ at first-ever RNC midterm convention
Lorenzo Sewell, senior pastor of 180 Church in Detroit, Michigan, who delivered a standout prayer during President Donald Trump's second inauguration, rallied Republicans again Wednesday night at the party’s first-ever midterm convention with a quick sermon he called “Enough is Enough.”
Megachurch Pastor Delman Coates claims lawyer scammed him out of millions
The Rev. Delman Coates, senior pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Maryland, has sued the estate of a Rhode Island attorney and others, alleging he was defrauded of millions of dollars in a real estate lending scheme.
Beloved pastor dies after suffering injury on cruise ship at son's wedding
Weeks after suffering a cervical spinal cord injury and nearly drowning during his son’s wedding celebration aboard a cruise ship in Italy, Pastor Steve Junker of Chippewa Lutheran Church in Brandon, Minnesota, has died. He was 58.
Nicki Minaj declares faith as SBA names her as judge in Million Dollar Pitch Competition
Outspoken rapper-turned-religious-freedom advocate Nicki Minaj continued the public reaffirmation of her Christian faith, sharing Scripture and declaring that she wants to “see my Jesus someday” in a recent nod to the gospel song "I've Got My Mind Made Up."
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