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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Pastor accused of choking woman pregnant with his child at Southside Impact Church
Rashan Lamar Wilson, lead pastor of Southside Impact Church in Charleston, South Carolina, who is also a relationship expert, was arrested and charged Monday for allegedly strangling the pregnant mother of his children until she passed out.
Administrator who tried to rig online polls for Trump 'made great contributions,' Liberty University says
Liberty University responded to news that one of its administrators was paid by Trump "fixer" Michael Cohen to rig online polls during the 2016 election by saying he is an "outstanding" employee who has "made great contributions."
Christian dishwasher fired by hotel because she refused to work Sundays awarded $21M
A devout Christian dishwasher and mother of six who was fired by Hilton's Conrad Hotel in Miami, Florida, for refusing to work on Sundays was awarded $21 million in punitive damages by a federal jury Monday after she sued for the violation of her religious rights.
Christian school founder sued for $150K donation after he is arrested for touching children, failing to build new school
A man who donated $150,000 to the founder of a Christian school in Kansas has filed a lawsuit to get his money back after the founder failed to build the school and got arrested for unlawful touching of underage children.
Families should not be ‘collateral damage’ in border wall fight, says Benjamin Watson
Benjamin Watson urged President Donald Trump to end the suffering caused by the government shutdown.
After beating cancer, Mark DeMoss, founder of America’s largest Christian PR firm, to close business
Two years after being diagnosed with cancer and beating it, Mark DeMoss, founder of DeMoss, which market’s itself as America’s largest PR agency serving faith-based organizations and causes since 1991, announced Tuesday that he will officially close his business on March 29.
Church pays off lunch debt for entire school district, more than 200 students get better meals
More than 200 students will now have access to more substantial lunches in the Royse City Independent School District ...
Horrific details of Jayme Closs' kidnapping revealed as suspect Jake T. Patterson is charged
In court documents released on Monday, Wisconsin investigators detailed the four minutes of murder and mayhem endured by 13-year-old kidnapping survivor Jayme Closs as she was captured by 21-year-old suspect Jake Thomas Patterson.
Jayme Closs: Two churches that prayed for 88 days celebrate return of kidnapped teen
Two churches that prayed for 88 days for the safe return of 13-year-old Jayme Closs who was kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin, home where her parents were murdered, celebrated the power of prayer and faith on Sunday after the teen was reunited with her family.
America’s youngest black legislator is a pro-life Christian Republican inspired by Barack Obama
Caleb Hanna, the West Virginia State University student who at 19 became the youngest African American to be elected to a state legislature, is a pro-life Christian Republican who says he was inspired by former President Barack Obama.
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