Leonardo Blair

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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  • Florida family found guilty of selling bleach as COVID-19 cure through fake online church

    Florida family found guilty of selling bleach as COVID-19 cure through fake online church

    A Florida man and three of his sons who duped consumers into purchasing more than $1 million worth of a "Miracle Mineral Solution" through a fake online church to cure ailments including COVID-19 and cancer that was nothing more than a poisonous "powerful bleach" when ingested, were convicted on federal fraud charges Wednesday.

  • Stovall Weems sues ARC, Chris Hodges, Dino Rizzo for 'engineering takeover' of Celebration Church

    Stovall Weems sues ARC, Chris Hodges, Dino Rizzo for 'engineering takeover' of Celebration Church

    Celebration Church founders Stovall and Kerri Weems have filed a lawsuit accusing the Association of Related Churches, one of North America's largest church-planting organizations, and several high-profile members of its executive team, including Church of the Highlands founder and leader, Chris Hodges, of "engineering" a takeover of the church and damaging their reputations.

  • Rock Church named in lawsuit over death of former elder's 11-year-old daughter

    Rock Church named in lawsuit over death of former elder's 11-year-old daughter

    The Rock Church in San Diego, California, and one employee have been named among several defendants in a civil lawsuit alleging numerous failures to report and investigate child abuse less than a year after Leticia McCormack, a one-time elder and former volunteer, was charged with the murder of her 11-year-old adopted daughter, Arabella.

  • Poorest Americans most likely to have ‘great deal’ of confidence in Church: Gallup

    Poorest Americans most likely to have ‘great deal’ of confidence in Church: Gallup

    While confidence in the Church or organized religion remains at historic lows, the poorest Americans, those living in households earning less than $50,000 annually, are more likely to express “a great deal” of confidence in religious institutions, a new survey from Gallup suggests.

  • LDS Church could be a $1 trillion denomination by 2044, report suggests

    LDS Church could be a $1 trillion denomination by 2044, report suggests

    With an estimated wealth of $236 billion in 2022, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could potentially cover all of its current expenses “forever” with returns from current investments without collecting any additional tithes from congregants. It could also become a $1 trillion denomination as early as 2044, a new report from The Widow’s Mite contends.

  • Iraqi Christians fear president’s revocation of decree places them in harm’s way

    Iraqi Christians fear president’s revocation of decree places them in harm’s way

    Christians in Iraq protested a decision by Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid to withdraw a decade-old decree recognizing Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako as the head of the Chaldean Church "in Iraq and the world" and allowing him to legally protect the assets of Christians and the local church.

  • More than a third of Americans have ‘sleep divorce,’ study suggests

    More than a third of Americans have ‘sleep divorce,’ study suggests

    More than a third of American adults say they sleep separately from their partner in another room occasionally or consistently in a practice known as “sleep divorce” in a bid to improve their nightly sleep, a new survey from The American Academy of Sleep Medicine shows.

  • Pastor Greg Locke unites with Benny Hinn after years of branding him ‘false prophet’

    Pastor Greg Locke unites with Benny Hinn after years of branding him ‘false prophet’

    Three days after announcing that he scrubbed thousands of videos from his Facebook page to 'minimize collateral damage' and focus on his deliverance ministry, internet-famous preacher Greg Locke met with televangelist and faith healer Benny Hinn for the first time after years of branding him a "false prophet." Now, they are "friends," according to Hinn.

  • 735 million people facing hunger globally, and Africa is most at risk: UN report

    735 million people facing hunger globally, and Africa is most at risk: UN report

    There are now an estimated 735 million people worldwide facing hunger, and Africa remains the most at-risk region when it comes to the global hunger crisis, the latest "State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World" report published Wednesday by five United Nations specialized agencies shows.

  • JD Greear backs black churches’ challenge to SBC’s vote to ban women pastors

    JD Greear backs black churches’ challenge to SBC’s vote to ban women pastors

    Former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, J.D. Greear, has backed the National African American Fellowship’s challenge to a recent vote by SBC messengers to ban women from serving as a "pastor of any kind" as an "unnecessary infringement upon the autonomy of the local church."

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