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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IHOPKC’s board says 24/7 Prayer Room will no longer be connected to a church
After months of deliberation, the board of the embattled International House of Prayer Kansas City has decided that their vaunted 24/7 Prayer Room will not be operated under the umbrella of any church following the shuttering of several arms of the ministry, including the Forerunner Church, in the wake of a sexual misconduct scandal involving founder Mike Bickle.
Ex-church assistant stole $300K in offerings to feed TikTok addiction
A former administrative assistant at the St. Francis of Assisi University Parish in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is now facing a possible 20 years in prison after she plead guilty to stealing some $300,000 from her church and spending most of the money on gifts for TikTok content creators leaving church officials baffled.
Officer who killed Sonya Massey after she rebuked him in Jesus’ name is ‘emissary of Satan,’ dad says
The father of 36-year-old Sonya Massey — who was shot dead by a sheriff's deputy inside her home in Springfield, Illinois, after she rebuked him "in the name of Jesus" earlier this month — called the officer who killed his daughter an "emissary of Satan."
Elevation Church collects over $100M in tithes, offerings in 2023 as attendance soars
Pastor Steven Furtick’s multi-campus Elevation Church, headquartered in North Carolina, collected more than $108 million in tithes and offerings in 2023, as in-person church attendance soared to more than 17,000 worshipers weekly with three new campuses, according to the megachurch’s 2023 annual report.
Former pastor who killed wife to challenge charge that murder was premeditated
Sylvester Ofori, a self-styled prophet and the former leader of Floodgates of Heaven International Ministries in Orlando, Florida, who fatally shot his estranged wife in 2020, plans to concede that he killed her but will challenge the allegation that he premeditated the murder.
EPIC Church mulls sale as ex-pastor faces multiple grooming allegations
EPIC Church in Kansas City, Missouri, is now contemplating a sale of their building to Summit Park Church following the resignation of pastor Bobby Hawk amid allegations of grooming from multiple women, including one who said the pastor put her hand under his thigh when she was 12.
Pastor reveals grandson accused of killing wife, 4 kids struggled with mental illness
Three days after his grandson allegedly murdered his wife and four children in their home on Thursday night, Allan Kendrick, lead pastor of Oasis of Praise Church in Bessemer, Alabama, revealed how his family had been struggling to get help with his mental illness from multiple government agencies, including with Medicaid, to pay for his care.
Former Gateway Church pastor believes there was a cover-up of Robert Morris’ child sex abuse
Stephen LeBlanc, a former Gateway Church pastor in Texas who has known the church’s founder Robert Morris since the 1980s, says he was shocked to learn about recent allegations that Morris sexually abused Cindy Clemishire over multiple years in the 1980s beginning when she was 12.
200-year-old church destroyed by fire after lightning strike
The state Fire Marshal in Zebulon, Georgia, is now investigating a fire after the historic Zebulon United Methodist Church was destroyed by fire following a lightning strike during a storm that moved across the area Wednesday.
Former SBC President Johnny Hunt claims pastor’s wife stalked, seduced him
Former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt, who previously admitted to engaging in "kissing and some awkward fondling" with the wife of a younger minister who accused him of sexual assault while on a beach vacation with his family in Panama City, Florida, in 2010, says he was stalked and seduced by the woman.
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