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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Parents of Oxford shooting suspect met with school about concerning behavior hours before massacre
Hours before the 15-year-old Oxford High School shooting suspect went on a deadly rampage at the Michigan school on Tuesday, his parents met with school officials about “concerning” behavior in class, according to investigators.
15-year-old Oxford High School student charged as adult in shooting that left 4 dead, 7 injured
A 15-year-old suspect in the Oxford High School shooting in Michigan that left four students dead and seven others injured was charged as an adult with four counts of first-degree murder and other charges, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said Wednesday.
Thousands call for Oxford High stadium to be renamed after hero student who tried to disarm shooter
More than 66,000 people have backed an online petition calling for the Wildcat Stadium of Oxford High School in Michigan to be renamed after standout football player Tate Myre, who died along with three others after reportedly attempting to disarm the 15-year-old sophomore who went on a shooting rampage at the school Tuesday.
Community turns to prayer after shooting rampage leaves 4 dead, 7 injured at Oxford High School
Scores of students and adults in Oxford, Michigan, sought solace in three separate prayer meetings Tuesday night hours after a 15-year-old sophomore shattered the peace of their community when he went on a shooting rampage at Oxford High School killing four students and injuring seven others.
Most Catholics, mainline Protestants say faith in God not required to enter Heaven: study
The majority of Catholic and mainline Christians say that people who don’t believe in God can go to Heaven, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. The study was released three years after Pope Francis sparked a firestorm of religious debate by telling a young boy that his deceased atheist father might still end up in Heaven.
Christian Rep. Lauren Boebert says insult of Rep. Ilhan Omar ‘isn’t about religion’
Christian Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado defended herself as a “strong Christian woman” who never wants to “offend someone’s religion” Monday hours after a botched attempt to apologize to Democrat Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for suggesting in a viral video that the hijab-wearing politician could be a suicide bomber.
Human trafficking lawsuit claims Mennonite teens suffered mental and physical abuse on farm
The Eastern Pennsylvania Mennonite Church and associated entities have been accused in a federal lawsuit of exploiting Mennonite boys and young men through a program they claimed would reform “troubled boys” but caused them physical and mental harm instead.
Pastor, marriage counselor resigns after preaching ‘the best person to rape is your wife’
Burnett L. Robinson, a New York pastor and marriage counselor who has spent more than 35 years in ministry, apologized and resigned from his post at the Grand Concourse Seventh-day Adventist Church last Wednesday after he declared in a sermon that “the best person to rape is your wife.”
Christian Aid Ministries continues work in Haiti despite abduction of missionaries by gang
The staff of the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries has been praying day and night for the safe return of 15 of their 17 missionaries kidnapped by the notorious 400 Mawozo gang in Haiti while continuing to work through the crisis, the international organization said.
Missionaries released in Haiti were 2 sick adults, no ransom was paid: report
Two of the 17 missionaries recently released in Haiti were sick adults and no ransom was paid despite threats from the leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that volunteers of the Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries would be killed if they did not receive $1 million each for their release, a new report suggests.
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