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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Lakewood executive offers theory of how cash ended up in church wall as plumber gets $20K reward
The plumber who recently discovered an undisclosed sum of cash and checks stacked inside a wall at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, seven years after some $600,000 was reported stolen from a safe received a $20,000 reward from Crime Stoppers of Houston. Meanwhile, a church executive offered a possible theory of how the money ended up in the wall.
Study finds kids ages 9-12 sharing nudes more than doubled in 2020, researchers concerned
The share of minors ages 9-12 who are sharing self-generated nude images online more than doubled in 2020, and advocates involved in combatting online child sex abuse are worried about the trend, a new study shows.
Man accused of killing woman in church shouldn't be held criminally responsible, lawyer says
A man accused of murdering 69-year-old retiree Evelyn Player inside a bathroom at the Southern Baptist Church in East Baltimore, Maryland, should not be held criminally responsible for her death, his lawyer argued as charging documents revealed how the praying grandmother fought her attacker to stay alive.
Churches, nonprofits optimistic about giving in 2022 despite pandemic: study
Cash giving to members of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability totaled $15.5 billion in 2020 despite the coronavirus pandemic. And with nearly three-quarters of affiliated churches and nonprofits reporting giving at the same rate or higher for the first three quarters of 2021, optimism for giving in 2022 among these ministries is high a new survey shows.
18-year-old Latter-day Saints missionary shot multiple times in Alabama church
An 18-year-old missionary from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remained in “serious but stable condition” over the weekend after being shot multiple times while serving in the church’s Alabama Birmingham Mission on Friday by an unknown assailant who police say is still on the run.
3 more missionaries kidnapped in Haiti released; prayers urged for release of remaining 12
Three more of the 17 Christian Aid Ministries missionaries kidnapped in Haiti on Oct. 16 were released Sunday night, the Ohio-based international aid ministry announced Monday as it urges continued prayers for 12 colleagues still held captive by the notorious 400 Mawozo gang.
Parents of Oxford shooting suspect charged with involuntary manslaughter
James and Jennifer Crumbley, the parents of the 15-year-old Oxford High School shooting suspect in Michigan, were each charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter by Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald on Friday for their alleged role in the tragedy that left four students dead and several others injured. The couple hasn't been located and they're being sought by authorities as fugitives.
Money found in Lakewood Church wall may be connected to 2014 theft, police say
Houston police have confirmed that evidence from checks found inside a wall at Lakewood Church last month suggests they are connected to the March 2014 theft from the Joel Osteen-led megachurch.
‘Happily married’ music minister fatally shoots wife, adult son and daughter
William Conway Broyles, the “happily married” longtime music director of Hodges Boulevard Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville, Florida, stunned his neighbors and church when he confessed to fatally shooting his wife, daughter and one of his two adult sons in their home Wednesday morning, but told police he was “too scared” to kill himself.
Ex-con with history of sexual assault arrested for murder of woman inside church bathroom
Manzie Smith Jr., a 62-year-old ex-convict with a lengthy rap sheet has been arrested and charged with the murder of 69-year-old retiree Evelyn Player, who was found stabbed to death two weeks ago inside a bathroom at the Southern Baptist Church in East Baltimore, Maryland.
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