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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Jeremiah Johnson of Jeremiah Johnson Ministries apologized to his followers Thursday for “inaccurately prophesying” that President Donald Trump would win a second term and warned Christians to repent of their idolatry of the populist leader.
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As the nation reels in the aftermath of a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by angry supporters of President Donald Trump Wednesday, leaders across the political divide have been deliberating about what should be the most appropriate response to it.
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A campaign on GiveSendGo has raised more than $100,000 for the legal defense of Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the Afro-Cuban international chairman of the far-right Proud Boys group who was arrested Monday for the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Washington, D.C., church.
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A Michigan widow, whose Christian husband recently died from COVID-19, is defending her embattled pastor over his comments that he died from the virus because he had no faith.
Facebook bans Trump ‘indefinitely’ following deadly Capitol riot
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of social media giant Facebook, announced Thursday that President Donald Trump has been banned from the platform “indefinitely” and for “at least the next two weeks” following a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.
5 reactions to Rev. Raphael Warnock’s historic election as Georgia’s first black senator
Longtime civil rights activist the Rev. Raphael Warnock was elected as Georgia’s first black senator, defeating Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in a closely contested runoff.
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Condolences are still pouring in for the family and friends of Gerald Burnett Sr., a popular educator and music minister who died in the choir room of Mountain View Church of Christ in Dallas, Texas, after a worship service on Sunday. He was 41.
NC woman says her ‘faith in God has been restored’ after sister survives COVID-19 battle
A woman in eastern North Carolina who spent several weeks supporting the recovery of her sister who battled COVID-19 alone at a local hospital says she and some members of her family have rekindled their faith in God after her sister recovered.
Rapper Mase returns to pulpit as new senior pastor of troubled The Gathering Oasis Church
Mason Durell Betha, popularly known as rapper Mase who rose to fame in the 1990s before finding faith and developing a rocky record as a church leader, has been named as the new senior pastor of The Gathering Oasis Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
Quoting Bible, New York gov. vows not to take COVID-19 vaccine until minorities get it
Citing Scriptures from Matthew and Galatians in the Bible’s New Testament, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo vowed to wary members of one of New York City’s most storied black megachurches that he will not take the coronavirus vaccine until it’s available to “black, Hispanic and poor communities.”
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