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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Atheists Call for 'Bible-Free' Hotel Rooms, Want Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' Instead
The Freedom from Religion Foundation, America's largest association of atheists and agnostics, began a campaign Monday to rid all hotel rooms of Bibles distributed by The Gideons International and replaced with copies of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species."
Norway Offers Free Flights and Cash for Refugees to Leave Country
Norway's conservative government is now offering refugees seeking asylum there a free flight home plus more than $9,000 in cash if they choose to go back to their home country.
Man Sues 'the Met' for Making Jesus White
One of New York City's most iconic museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is being sued by a Manhattan man for portraying Jesus as white in "racist" paintings.
IRS Proposes Churches, Nonprofits Get Social Security Numbers From Donors
The IRS may soon require churches and other nonprofit charities to report the Social Security numbers of their donors contributing at least $250 annually.
Pastor Davey Blackburn Says God Allowed Wife's Murder So Church Could Live
Davey Blackburn, the grieving Indiana pastor whose pregnant wife, Amanda, was shot dead during a home invasion on Nov. 10, said God told him he allowed his wife to die so the church could live.
Jimmy Carter Says His Cancer Is Gone
Former President Jimmy Carter who revealed this summer that he had been diagnosed with advanced cancer that had been found on his liver and brain, announced Sunday that the cancer is gone.
Amid Slipping Poll Numbers, Ben Carson Tells Supporters Media Is Twisting His Words
With less than two months to go before the Iowa Caucuses on Feb. 1 and his poll numbers slipping, GOP 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson told his supporters Friday that the media and political class "just don't understand me."
Hillary Clinton Responds to Rape Accusations Against Bill Clinton
Democratic 2016 presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton was forced by a female voter to respond to rape and sexual assault accusations against her husband, former President Bill Clinton, during a campaign event in New Hampshire on Thursday.
'Affluenza' Teen Ethan Couch Who Killed Pastor, 3 Others in Drunken Crash Seen in Beer Pong Video
Ethan Couch, the Texas teenager who was sentenced to only rehab and probation after killing a beloved pastor and three others in a drunken crash in 2013 because he had "affluenza" is now being investigated after a video surfaced online this week showing him playing beer pong.
3-Y-O Boy Raped During Church Service, Parents Sue for $37.5M
The family of a 3-year-old boy who was raped in a bathroom by a teenage male volunteer as they worshipped at a Tennessee church last summer has filed a staggering $37.5 million lawsuit against the organization for negligence.
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Celebrity ad promoting males in girls' sports draws ire of champion gymnast: 'Bodies play sports, not identities'
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