
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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Gateway Church founder Robert Morris released from jail
Disgraced Gateway Church founder Robert Morris was released from the Osage County Jail in Oklahoma on Tuesday morning following the completion of a six-month sentence for sexually abusing Cindy Clemishire for multiple years beginning when she was 12 in the 1980s.

10 people saved after man points gun at pastor during teen's funeral and no one gets hurt
Some 10 people surrendered their lives to God during a funeral service in Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday, when no one got hurt after a grief-stricken man, who declared he did not believe in Jesus, pointed a gun at the pastor officiating the ceremony for a teenager who died by gun violence, and ordered him to be quiet.

Military reduces faith codes to address 'political correctness,' 'secular humanism'
In reforms meant to address an infection of "political correctness and secular humanism" in the Army Chaplain Corps, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the number of alphanumeric faith code identifiers used to mark a service member’s religious affiliation to help Army chaplains support them will be reduced from more than 200 to just 31.

As Trump admin. champions monthly prayer, advocacy group files lawsuits
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a secular advocacy organization, is suing the U.S. Departments of War and Labor, alleging the agencies have illegally withheld public records on monthly Christian prayer services hosted by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.

Catholic Church won’t survive without ordaining women, cardinal warns
Unless the Catholic Church breaks its 2,000-year tradition of ordaining only men to the priesthood, Archbishop of Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich doesn’t believe it “can continue to exist.” And the majority of Catholic women agree with him, he claims.

Department of Labor launches new Center for Faith website targeting religious discrimination
In a bid to combat rising cases of religious discrimination, the United States Department of Labor has launched a new website for its Center for Faith, with resources for Christians and other Americans who may have faced religious discrimination in the workplace.

DoorDash delivery worker, 78, gets nearly $1M from strangers
Richard Pulley, a 78-year-old Tennessee man forced out of retirement to work 12-hour days as a DoorDash delivery driver to help cover his family’s expenses after his wife lost her job, has received a check for nearly $1 million in donations from over 30,000 people to help him retire.

Oklahoma House passes Cindy Clemishire Act to void NDAs in child sex abuse cases
Representatives in the Oklahoma House have unanimously voted to pass a bill known as the Cindy Clemishire Act and Trey’s Law, which would make any non-disclosure agreements intended to exploit or conceal details of a child sexual abuse claim void and unenforceable.

Charges are dropped against students involved in accidental death of teacher
Forgiveness and a call for grace from the widow of beloved Georgia high school teacher Jason Hughes have prevailed as prosecutors dropped all charges against five students who were involved in a junior-senior wars game that led to his death.

Ligonier exec. says church excommunicated him, wife after they reported suspected abuse of daughter
Days after Ligonier Ministries announced that Stephen J. Nichols would end his tenure as president of Reformation Bible College and chief academic officer in May, the well-known church historian says he and his wife, Heidi, were excommunicated by Saint Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, Florida, after they reported the suspected sexual abuse of their daughter.


























