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.
Edited video footage released by the Houston Police Department of the fatal shooting of 36-year-old Lakewood Church shooter Genesse Moreno on Feb. 11 shows an officer praying for Moreno’s 7-year-old son who was shot in the head.
The wife of Zionfield Baptist Church Pastor Clemmie Livingston Jr., who was shot in the mouth by carjackers as he was getting ready for a service at his church in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday, says his injuries are “more serious than people know” and is now seeking the public’s help to get him the medical care he needs.
A Pentecostal church in St. Louis, Missouri, where an unidentified woman told police she was held captive and beaten by three men during a 30-day fast has been condemned by city officials.
Zionfield Baptist Church Pastor Clemmie Livingston Jr., who was shot in the mouth by carjackers as he was getting ready for a service at his church in Memphis, Tennessee, on Sunday, is also battling cancer, his family has revealed.
Weeks after stepping down as global senior pastor of the Australia-based Neuma Church over allegations that he committed adultery with a female pastor in the Pentecostal megachurch, Pastor Corey Turner confirmed his resignation over a "morally inappropriate relationship."
Youth With a Mission elder, Darlene Cunningham, who co-founded the interdenominational Christian training organization with her late-husband, Loren Cunningham, in 1960, said the 11 missionaries killed and eight others injured in a grisly crash in Arusha, Tanzania, on Saturday, is a historic loss for the ministry and tears are falling around the world over the event.
A beloved pastor is now fighting for his life at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, after he was shot in the mouth outside his church on Sunday as he tried stopping thieves from stealing a Sunday School teacher’s car, witnesses say.
Less than a week after vowing to find out who hacked his X account and tweeted the words "ladies and girls kissing," Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston claims the post was made by someone he knows who was attempting to embarrass him.
Pastor Bobby Leonard, the longtime leader of Bible Baptist Tabernacle in Monroe, North Carolina, has apologized after a clip of a sermon in which he said he wouldn't convict a man for raping a woman who was wearing shorts went viral, sparking a local protest and triggering widespread backlash online.
The family of a celebrated Missouri educator who killed herself and her four children Monday say she was driven to “darkness” due to “spurious litigation and unfounded allegations” by her former boyfriend and ex-husband in a contentious custody battle over their children who she said had “heart for the Lord.”
