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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Some two months after he survived an assassination attempt on his life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, authorities have arrested a man identified as Ryan Wesley Routh in connection with what the FBI described as another apparent “attempted assassination” on the life of former President and Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
Abyssinian Baptist Church will install Kevin Johnson as new senior pastor this month
Three months after announcing that the Rev. Kevin R. Johnson was selected as its new senior pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, the renowned black Baptist congregation founded in New York City more than 200 years ago, will officially install him this month.
Televangelist Apollo Quiboloy pleads ‘not guilty’ as more alleged victims come forward
Televangelist and Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy who surrendered to authorities Sunday after a contentious two-week standoff with Philippines Police over his arrest has pleaded not guilty to human trafficking and the sexual abuse of children as more alleged victims have come forward.
Pastor Greg Locke says family won’t return home after drive-by shooting
Controversial Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke says he and his family will not be returning to their home following a "surreal" drive-by shooting in which gunmen riddled his house and truck with 60 bullets in less than three seconds just over a week ago.
Pastor, father of 11, Baptist college exec. fatally shoots himself after accusation of child molestation
David Baker Sr., a Tennessee pastor and father of 11, who served as vice president of Independent Baptist Online College, walked into a local hospital Wednesday and fatally shot himself a day after he was charged with aggravated sexual battery of a minor family member.
Robert Morris’ son, James Morris, names new house of worship Passage Church
James Morris, the son of disgraced Gateway Church founder Robert Morris in Southlake, Texas, has announced that the new church he intends to plant will be called Passage Church.
23 years after 9/11, pastor who served at Ground Zero explains why it’s important to remember
For the last 40 years, Pastor Mickey Stonier, has been helping to care for victims of trauma and he will never forget his time serving at Ground Zero in New York City as a member of a disaster response team in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Pastor who went to Vegas to save daughter found with drugs, guns in hotel room
David McGee, the founder of Cross the Bridge Ministries in North Carolina who told his followers that he was going to Las Vegas, Nevada, to rescue his only daughter from the infamous tunnels below that city, recently triggered a counterterrorism response from local authorities after he was found with drugs and guns in his hotel room.
Windsor Village Church celebrates early prison release of former pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell
When her husband, Kirbyjon Caldwell, who formerly led the 14,000 member Windsor Village United Methodist Church in Texas, began his six year prison term in June 2021 for defrauding members of his church and other investors, Suzette Caldwell, the church’s current senior pastor said she “cried a river.”
Wanted for child sex crimes, megachurch pastor Apollo Quiboloy surrenders after weeks-long manhunt
After a contentious two-week standoff with Philippines police at his church's 74-acre compound in Davao City, popular televangelist and Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader Apollo Quiboloy surrendered to authorities Sunday to answer to child sex trafficking and other charges.
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