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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After paying "upwards of $10 million" to extortionists to keep his illness secret, actor Charlie Sheen publicly admitted on Tuesday morning that he is HIV positive.
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Republican 2016 presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson has released what he said Monday is a satellite image of a Chinese radar station in Syria.
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Amanda Blackburn, the 28-year-old pregnant wife of Pastor Davey Blackburn of Resonate Church who was murdered inside the couple's home in Indianapolis last Tuesday, was expecting a girl.
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In a terror attack President Barack Obama called "an attack on all humanity" at least 100 people were reported dead after a shooting rampage and explosions in Paris Friday night.
Trump Mocks Carson's Christian Conversion, Calls Him Scary Pathological Enigma
Real estate mogul and 2016 Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has openly mocked political rival Dr. Ben Carson's religious conversion.
Does Dallas Now Allow Men in Women's Bathrooms?
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has slammed an anti-discrimination ordinance amended in the city of Dallas Tuesday to distinguish between "sexual orientation" and "gender identity and expression," as an attempt to allow men to use women's bathrooms.
Pastor Whose Wife Was Shot Dead Says There Will Be Church on Sunday
As police in Indianapolis search for the burglar who killed his pregnant wife on Tuesday, Pastor Davey Blackburn of Resonate Church told his followers Friday morning that there will be church on Sunday.
Pastor Steven Furtick Says Jesus Wouldn't Want Him to Reveal How Much Money He Makes
Pastor Steven Furtick of the popular Elevation Church in North Carolina says Jesus wouldn't want him to reveal how much money he earns or donates.
Egyptian Officials Knock Ben Carson's Theory That Joseph Built Pyramids to Store Grain
Antiquities officials in Egypt aren't pleased with 2016 GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson's claim that the country's iconic pyramids were built by the biblical Joseph to store grains instead of the bodies of ancient pharaohs.
Pregnant Wife of Pastor Dies After She Is Shot in Head During Home Invasion
A 28-year-old pregnant pastor's wife who was shot in the head during a home invasion in Indianapolis on Tuesday has died.
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