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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Couple married 60 years killed in church bus crash on way to Sunday service
A Kentucky church and its wider community in Frankfort are grieving after a beloved couple who were members of the congregation for more than 50 years were killed on their way to worship service Sunday after the church’s bus crashed into a telephone pole.
Chosen People Ministries calls for prayers as Iran’s missile attacks kill 8 in Israel
Mitch Glaser, president of Chosen People Ministries, one of the oldest and largest Messianic Jewish organizations in the United States urged Christians to pray for Israel as well as a group of 60 people connected to his organization who are still trapped there as a new round of missile attacks from Iran hit the country killing at least eight people on Monday.
Sean Feucht calls allegations of financial, moral misconduct spiritual warfare
After more than a week of silence on allegations of financial, spiritual, and moral misconduct by former workers of his multiple ministries, activist missionary and worship leader Sean Feucht dismissed them as a spiritual attack and urged his followers to reject them.
Cindy Clemishire files defamation lawsuit against Robert Morris, Gateway Church
Cindy Clemishire, the woman who alleges she was sexually abused by Gateway Church founder Robert Morris in the 1980s, beginning when she was just 12, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the Southlake, Texas, church and Morris seeking over $1 million.
Adam Sheafe, suspect in murder of Pastor William Schonemann, was religiously motivated, police say
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona has named Adam Christopher Sheafe, a troubled ex-convict who was released early from prison, as the main suspect in the murder of beloved New River Bible Chapel Pastor William Schonemann, who was found dead in bed with his hands pinned to a wall inside his home on April 28.
Deitrick Haddon slams BET's selection of rapper GloRilla for Gospel Award
Popular gospel singer and founding pastor of Hill City Church in California, Deitrick Haddon, has criticized BET for giving secular rapper GloRilla the Dr. Bobby Jones Best Gospel/Inspirational Award at the 2025 BET Awards on Monday.
Pastors faring worse than US adults in relationships, well-being but most don’t get help: study
Despite faring worse than practicing Christians and U.S. adults in general in their relationships, physical, emotional and mental health, most pastors don't get professional support. A majority of them also appear to be unaware that these are the areas of their lives where they have the greatest need, according to a new report.
Luther Seminary announces plans to sell upper campus as majority of students study online
After more than 120 years in St. Paul, Minnesota, Luther Seminary, the largest seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, will sell its 10-acre upper campus.
Christian share of global population shrinks despite remaining largest religious group: study
A new Pew Research Center report shows that although Christianity continues to be the world’s largest religious group, its share of the rising global population has fallen over the last decade, mainly due to people walking away from the faith.
Memphis Theological Seminary establishes scholarship in name of murdered pastor
Memphis Theological Seminary in Tennessee has launched a scholarship in the name of slain United Methodist Church Pastor Rev. Autura Eason-Williams to support Methodist students committed to “justice and the love of Christ.”
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