
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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Doctor who violated Texas abortion law is sued by disbarred lawyers
Alan Braid, a Texas abortionist who admitted that he violated the state’s new law banning most abortions after six weeks gestation, was sued Monday by two disbarred pro-choice attorneys from Illinois and Arkansas who are both seeking to test the validity of the law many legal experts have called unconstitutional.

Megachurch charter bus crash injures over 30, several still critical
A bus transporting more than 30 high school girls and volunteers affiliated with the multi-campus Lives Changed By Christ megachurch in Pennsylvania crashed Sunday leaving several in critical condition.

Youth pastor shot dead while trying to help congregant save burning home in Myanmar
A beloved youth pastor was reportedly shot dead as he tried to help one of his congregants save their burning home after it was set ablaze by Myanmar’s military junta during an attack on civilians in Chin state Saturday.

After failed stint as pastor’s wife, Nadia Hilton returns to porn as a ‘Christian’
Crystal DiGregorio, popularly known by her stage name Nadia Hilton has resurrected her X-rated career on online subscription service OnlyFans after an unsuccessful stint as a pastor's wife.

Texas doctor violates state abortion law days after it goes into effect
A Texas obstetrician and gynecologist who began his career before abortion became a constitutional right through Roe v. Wade in 1973 announced Saturday that he violated the state’s new law banning most abortions in the state after six weeks gestation, just days after it became effective on Sept. 1.

Pastor Robert Jeffress: ‘There is no credible religious argument against the vaccines’
Pastor Robert Jeffress, leader of the 12,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, says there “there is no credible religious argument against” COVID-19 vaccines as an increasing number of Americans seek religious exemptions to vaccination mandates.

Why Owen Strachan thinks critical race theory is a threat to the Church
In his new book, Grace Bible Theological Seminary Provost and Research Professor Owen Strachan seeks to save the American church from the “slithery hiss“ of critical race theory he believes is a threat to Christians.

For peace in Ethiopian conflict, church leaders say diplomatic process must be fair
As tensions continue to mount in the ongoing civil war in Ethiopia that has left thousands dead and some two million people displaced, leaders in the North American Dioceses of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church called for a “fair” diplomatic process that will hold the Tigray People’s Liberation Front accountable.

Christian Rep. Lauren Boebert: I don't ‘give a darn about mask mandates’ because my colleagues are hypocrites
Christian Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado says she doesn’t “give a darn about mask mandates” because some of her colleagues like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, both Democrats, only wear masks for “political theater.”

‘Bleak’ future ahead for majority of Americans due to lower education: study
Americans who don’t have a college degree are now facing a “bleak” and deadlier future compared to those who do, according to Princeton researchers who recently found increasing deaths by drugs, alcohol and suicide, known as “deaths of despair,” are largely concentrated among this group while a college degree appears to act as a talisman against them.


























