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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Rock Church Pastor John Blanchard gets prostitution charge expunged; prays over baby for church dedication on Sunday
Despite a special prosecutor concluding that prostitution-related charges brought against him by local police nearly two years ago were "sound," a Virginia judge agreed last Wednesday to expunge the case from the record of Rock Church International Senior Pastor John Blanchard.
Historic Miami church needs $3M to save buildings from foreclosure
The historic St. John's Institutional Missionary Baptist Church in Miami, Florida, could lose several of its buildings to foreclosure in less than two weeks after a former pastor allegedly mishandled the finances of the 117-year-old church and left the congregation drowning in debt.
Pastor claims church members got killed by gang during Haiti protest because they lost faith
After at least seven of his members were executed when he led them into what local police have called an ill-advised protest against a powerful gang in Haiti on Saturday, Pastor Marcorel Zidor, leader of the Church of the Pool of Bethesda in Caradeux said they only died because they lost their faith.
Ron DeSantis calls racist Dollar General shooter ‘major league scumbag’ at prayer vigil
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called the white man who fatally shot three black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville because of their race, “a major league scumbag” at a prayer vigil for the victims Sunday where he was booed by some as he promised help for the grieving community.
At least 7 church members executed, others kidnapped, injured for challenging gang in Haiti
At least seven members of the Evangelical Church of the Pool of Bethesda in Caradeux, Haiti, were executed while several others were injured or kidnapped on Saturday after their pastor convinced them to protest a heavily armed local gang with just sticks, machetes, and the belief that God would protect them from bullets.
Faith-based global security ministry helped free kidnapped American nurse, daughter in Haiti
Concilium Inc., a faith-based global security company headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, worked with the U.S. State Department and other American law enforcement officials to secure the release of New Hampshire nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter, both of whom were kidnapped from the campus of Christian education ministry, El Roi Haiti, on July 27 near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the ministry said.
Family mourns after apparent suicide of Texas Pastor Phillip Loveday
Family of the-late Texas Pastor Phillip Loveday, who was found dead by police from an apparent suicide Tuesday, are now grappling with grief after the tragic end to their six-day search for him.
Morehouse College’s Christian valedictorian tells church they can call on both ancestors and Jesus for help
George Pratt, a 2023 history and religion graduate and co-valedictorian at Morehouse College, recently told congregants at Antioch AME Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, that Jesus isn’t the only name they can call on when they need spiritual help from God but they can call on the names of their ancestors to because like Jesus, their ancestors are also manifestations of God.
Kidnapped American nurse and daughter freed in Haiti, Christian ministry says
Alix Dorsainvil, a New Hampshire nurse and her daughter, who were kidnapped from the campus of Christian education ministry, El Roi Haiti, on July 27 near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, have been released, officials from the organization announced Wednesday.
Rickey Smiley, pastor, exult after black co-captain is defended from attack by white boaters in Montgomery
Christian comedian and talk show host Ricky Smiley publicly exulted with many black Americans online after a black cruise ship co-captain was successfully defended by colleagues and bystanders after he was violently attacked by a group of white boaters at the Riverfront Park in Montgomery, Alabama, on Saturday.
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