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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Indiana church fires pastor accused of having sex with foster daughter over 100 times
A week after their lead pastor Errol Wright, was accused of having sex with his teenage foster daughter more than 100 times, Community Christian Church in Tell City, Indiana, said he has been fired and they are grieving over the ordeal.
MAG Church disaffiliates from Assemblies of God over Chi Alpha abuse scandal
Former Assemblies of God pastor J.R. Armstrong of MAG Church in Orange, Texas, announced that his congregation recently voted to follow in his footsteps to disaffiliate from the world's largest Pentecostal denomination amid a sexual abuse scandal impacting its Chi Alpha Campus Ministries.
Serial bigamist who posed as pastor had at least 10 wives he met in black churches
A man accused of serial bigamy in Houston, Texas, who posed as a pastor or bishop at small black churches around the country, was sentenced to three years in prison after he was found to have had at least 10 wives whom he married for financial gain.
Manhattan school district calls for review of policy allowing trans-identified athletes in girls’ sports
Officials in Manhattan’s largest school board district, Community Education Council District 2, sparked outraged among LGBT officials Wednesday when they voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution that could ban boys from competing in girls' sports.
Sage Steele believes devil tried to silence her with golf ball strike at PGA Championship
Christian sports anchor and former "SportsCenter" host Sage Steele told Liberty University students that she believes the devil tried to use a devastating blow to her mouth from a wayward golf ball that knocked out eight teeth at the PGA Championship in May 2022 weeks after she filed a lawsuit against ESPN for retaliation to silence her.
World Vision warns of grave impact on Haitian children as violence escalates, missionary evacuated
Global Christian humanitarian aid organization World Vision has warned that children in Haiti are facing grave insecurity as escalating violence in the troubled Caribbean nation continues to lead to the death and displacement of thousands.
Gunman shoots pastor twice after telling him ‘God is not going to bless you tonight’
Texas Pastor Thomas Wilson of Meadowbrook Baptist Church is thanking God for sparing his life after a gunman he refused to lend his phone to shot him twice and robbed him moments after telling him “God is not going to bless you tonight.”
Pastor accused of having sex with teenager more than 100 times while he was her legal guardian
An Indiana woman who says she has lost her faith in humanity after she was forced to have sex more than 100 times as a teenager by her pastor as he served as her legal guardian, says despite everything she went through, “I never lost my faith in God.”
Pastor paid hitmen nearly $40K to kill daughter’s boyfriend: police
A California pastor who allegedly paid hitmen nearly $40,000 last October to kill his daughter's boyfriend has been arrested and charged with solicitation for murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.
Majority of Americans say religion is losing influence in public life: Pew
Most American adults say religion is losing influence in public life and many are not happy about it, a new study from the Pew Research Center has found.
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