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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Family pleads for help to find missing Chicago Pastor Warren Beard
Family and friends of the Rev. Warren Beard, a beloved father of five, Sunday school teacher, and assistant pastor at New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, are desperately praying and calling on the public for help in finding him after he disappeared without a trace more than a week ago after visiting with friends in Joliet.
Global megachurch leader Enoch Adeboye cites Robert Morris’ fall as cautionary tale
Global megachurch leader Pastor Enoch Adeboye, who serves as the general overseer of the Nigeria-based Redeemed Christian Church of God, recently warned members of his flock to “flee youthful lust” while alluding to the collapse of Gateway Church founder Robert Morris’ ministry over allegations of child sexual abuse he committed in the 1980s as a cautionary tale.
Survivor Joyce Meyer, Dr. Ben Carson withdraw from Gateway Church series after child sex abuse allegations against Robert Morris
Childhood sex abuse survivor and televangelist Joyce Meyer, along with renowned neurosurgeon and former Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson, have both pulled out of a line-up of speakers scheduled for Gateway Church’s “Let’s Dive In! Summer Series” in the wake of child sex abuse allegations against founder Robert Morris.
Gateway Church settled lawsuit after multiple pastors accused of covering up sexual assault of minor
Just two months before Gateway Church founder Robert Morris resigned over an explosive allegation of child sex abuse, the megachurch settled a lawsuit in which at least five Gateway Church pastors and a youth leader were accused of concealing the sexual assault of a minor by another member.
Robert Morris did not get severance after resignation over abuse scandal, Gateway Church reveals
Gateway Church founder Robert Morris received no severance payout after he resigned from the Texas megachurch in the wake of allegations that he sexually abused Cindy Clemishire over multiple years in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12.
Robert Morris Ministries cancels future radio, television broadcasts after child sexual abuse scandal
Following allegations that came to light last month that Gateway Church founder Robert Morris sexually abused Cindy Clemishire over multiple years in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12, Pastor Robert Morris Ministries has now canceled “all future radio and television broadcasts.”
Benny Hinn says world’s darkest days ahead, giving to God will protect followers financially
Benny Hinn says the world is on a collision course with its darkest days ever, and only those who give money to the Lord’s work will be protected financially.
Zachary King, former megachurch pastor, charged with rape, sodomy of minor
Zachary King, a pastor with “significant experience serving in youth ministry” at multiple megachurches, including LexCity Church in Kentucky, from which he recently resigned as executive pastor, has been charged with the rape and sexual abuse of a minor.
Missionary, 5 family members perish in fire at Wisconsin vacation rental
Pastor Steve Witte, a missionary affiliated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, commonly referred to as WELS, perished in a fire along with five members of his family while at a vacation rental in the state, the Synod has announced.
The Meeting House megachurch temporarily shutters because it can’t get abuse insurance
More than two years after former teaching pastor Bruxy Cavey resigned from one of Canada’s largest megachurches amid allegations of sexual misconduct, The Meeting House has temporarily paused operations because no insurance company wants to cover its abuse liability or employment practices liability insurance.
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