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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Burundi Wants Churches to Have at Least 500 Members and a Building Before They Can Register; Foreign Churches Need 1,000
Citing a survey last year which found that there were some 557 practicing Christian denominations in the small Central African nation, Burundi's lower house of parliament has passed a bill requiring churches to have at least 500 members and a building to stanch the "proliferation of churches" in that country.
'I'm Coming Home:' Lebron James Says He Is Leaving Miami Heat to Return to Cleveland Because 'This Is What Makes Me Happy'
NBA superstar Lebron James announced Friday that he is leaving the Miami Heat to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers in his home state of Ohio where he started his career and it made the Internet happy.
'I'm Not Interested in Photo Ops' Obama Tells Rick Perry After Gov. Asks Him to Take First-Hand Look at Border Crisis
President Barack Obama rejected a request from Texas Governor Rick Perry that he take a first-hand look at the crisis unfolding at the U.S. border with thousands of migrant children telling him 'I'm not interested in photo ops'.
Glenn Beck Pledges to Help Illegal Immigrant Children at Border; They Are Here 'Through No Fault of Their Own,' He Says
Media personality Glenn Beck pledged Tuesday to help the thousands of illegal immigrant children at the United States border, warning that Americans "must open our hearts" to avoid punishing the children caught in the middle of a political fight.
ISIL Members Dig Up Grave of Biblical Prophet Jonah, Torch 11 Churches as Christian Population Rapidly Shrinks in Iraq
A local Nineveh official in Iraq confirmed last Friday with almost certainty that militant members of the Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) dug up the grave of revered biblical prophet Jonah (Younis in Arabic) in the east of Mosul as Christians continue to flee that country by the hundreds daily.
Mom Allegedly Suffocates Infant Son Because She 'Didn't Want Him Anymore;' Posts Pictures on Facebook
A 22-year-old mother from Queens, New York, who allegedly suffocated her 11-month-old son because she "didn't want him anymore," is now in police custody and facing the scorn of shocked friends and family who cannot understand why she would do something so sinister.
Pastor Impregnates 20 Members of His Congregation and Claims the Holy Spirit Told Him to Do it
A self-styled 53-year-old pastor from Nigeria who impregnated more than 20 members of his congregation, including several married women and young girls, claiming that the Holy Spirit told him to have sex with them has been arrested for sexual abuse.
Pastor, Church Members Plead Guilty to Torturing Boy, Forcing Him to Dig His Own Grave Because He Raped 7-Y-O Sister
A pastor and two members of his small Corona, California, church pleaded guilty Monday to torturing and threatening the life of a 13-year-old boy whose mother had asked them to teach her son how to be a man after he sexually assaulted his 7-year-old sister.
Christian Mother of 3, Holly Fisher, Attacked by Liberals for Celebrating Religious Freedom on Twitter After Hobby Lobby Win
A photo of Holly Fisher celebrating Hobby Lobby's Supreme Court victory posted on Twitter was supposed to be lighthearted. But when the Christian mother of three realized she was under attack from liberals, she followed it up with a photo of herself standing with a gun and a Bible on Independence Day — that's when all hell broke loose.
Germans Reach World Cup Final After Handing Crushing 7-1 Defeat to Brazil in World Cup; 5 Goals Scored in 29 Minutes
The Germans were relentless and merciless in their crushing 7-1 defeat of Brazil in their World Cup semi-final match, which left fans in the host country shell-shocked and in tears after witnessing the most stunning defeat the country has ever been dealt in 94 years of Brazilian soccer.
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