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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China Is Now the World's Largest Economy Based on Purchasing Power Parity, Says the IMF
After years of the United States wearing the coveted crown China is now ranked the world's largest economy based on purchasing power parity, according to recent GDP data released by the International Monetary Fund.
Alabama Pastor Confesses From Pulpit That He Has AIDS, Slept With Church Members Inside Building, Abused Drugs and Money
A Montgomery, Alabama, Baptist congregation is reeling after their longtime pastor confessed at the pulpit a few Sundays ago that he has AIDS, knowingly slept with church members inside the building without revealing his status, and abused drugs and mishandled the congregation's money.
Second Texas Patient Exhibiting Symptoms of Ebola Is Transported to Dallas Hospital
A second patient has been transported to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas after exhibiting symptoms of Ebola Wednesday. The patient, Sgt. Michael Monnig, had been inside the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan was staying to get a quarantine order signed. Monnig and the two county health officials who entered the apartment with him did not wear protective gear.
Atheists Want Painting That Suggests 'Real American Children Pray' Removed From School's Office But District Refuses
The Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin, is now lobbying an Oklahoma School District to remove a painting by artist Donald Zolan because it suggests that "real American children pray." The district, however, has refused to comply with the secular group's request.
Ebola Patient Thomas Eric Duncan Dies; Public Officials Extend Their Condolences to His Family
Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, who became the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States on Sept. 30, died Wednesday.
Supreme Court Blocks Gay Marriage in Idaho a Day After Federal Court Declares Practice Legal in Nevada and Idaho
A day after a federal court struck down bans against gay marriage in the states of Nevada and Idaho, sparking celebration in the gay community, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy temporarily blocked that ruling Wednesday morning.
29-Y-O Cancer-Stricken Brittany Maynard to End Her Life After Husband's Birthday Under Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law
Brittany Maynard says she will commit suicide under Oregon's Death With Dignity Act on Nov. 1, one day after her husband's birthday, at home in bed to escape the burden of her terminal brain cancer.
Scientist Who Helped Discover Ebola: Outbreak Now 'Human Catastrophe … I Really Never Thought That It Could Get This Bad'
Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who named Ebola and was part of a team of scientists who discovered the virus in Kinshasa, formerly Zaire, in 1976, says the Ebola outbreak is no longer an epidemic but a "human catastrophe" he never thought "could get this bad."
Supreme Court Decision Will Make Gay Marriage Legal in 30 States; Court Watched 'Marriage Burn to Ashes' Says Conservative Group
Monday's unexpected Supreme Court ruling not to get involved in the national debate over same-sex marriage is expected to eventually bring the number of states where gay marriage is legal to 30 as lower court rulings in support of the practice are allowed to stand.
Shelter Dog No One Wanted Is Named 'Lazarus' After It Survives Euthanasia Attempt
A 4-year-old mutt that no one wanted was named "Lazarus" — after a man Jesus rose from the dead — when it was found alive and drinking water hours after it had been administered a lethal dose of chemicals meant to kill it.
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