Leonardo Blair

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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  • 5 more Jehovah’s Witnesses arrested for sexual assault, exploitation of children

    5 more Jehovah’s Witnesses arrested for sexual assault, exploitation of children

    Following the filing of sexual abuse charges against nine members of Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations in October 2022 and February 2023, Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced Friday that she filed charges against five more men in the religious organization for sexual assault and exploitation of children.

  • Pastor Greg Locke repents, scrubs thousands of videos from Facebook to 'minimize collateral damage'

    Pastor Greg Locke repents, scrubs thousands of videos from Facebook to 'minimize collateral damage'

    Nearly four months after revealing that he got too involved with politics to the point where it was overshadowing his ministry, Greg Locke, the internet famous leader of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, announced that he scrubbed thousands of videos with billions of views from his Facebook page to minimize some of the “collateral damage” they caused.

  • Pastor, Al Sharpton’s brother gets 30 months for drug trafficking, tax evasion

    Pastor, Al Sharpton’s brother gets 30 months for drug trafficking, tax evasion

    Pastor Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, the troubled younger half-brother of civil rights activist Al Sharpton and founder of felon voting rights advocacy organization, The Ordinary People Society in Dothan, Alabama,  was sentenced to 30 months in prison Thursday for drug trafficking, income tax evasion, and lying to obtain Social Security disability benefits.

  • Record share of 40-year-olds in America have never been married: study

    Record share of 40-year-olds in America have never been married: study

    A record number of 40-year-olds in America have never been married, and they are more likely to be men, African Americans and those who possess a level of education equivalent to a high school diploma or less, a new analysis by the Pew Research Center shows.

  • Youth pastor who filmed underaged girls in church bathroom now facing 46 counts

    Youth pastor who filmed underaged girls in church bathroom now facing 46 counts

    Daniel Kellan Mayfield, the former youth pastor at First Baptist Gowensville in Landrum, South Carolina, who was arrested last month for allegedly recording girls, many of whom were underage, inside the church’s bathroom, is now facing 46 charges of criminal sexual conduct, court records show.

  • Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, wife separate so they can see other people

    Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, wife separate so they can see other people

    While they have no plans to divorce or stop living together in the same house, failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, have announced they have formally separated so they can see other people.

  • Pope Francis launches effort to honor modern-day Christian martyrs from all denominations

    Pope Francis launches effort to honor modern-day Christian martyrs from all denominations

    Pope Francis has commissioned a new working group in the Vatican's department of saint-making, known as the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, to identify Christians from all denominations worldwide who have been killed for their faith since 2000.

  • Houston megachurch exorcises ‘demonic’ statue found on property with burning

    Houston megachurch exorcises ‘demonic’ statue found on property with burning

    Members of a Houston megachurch exorcised the "demonic" influence of a miniature Grim Reaper found hidden on their property Sunday evening, destroying it in a blazing fire and prayers just a week after thieves were captured on video stealing a safe containing money and important documents from their church building.

  • TD Jakes appoints daughter, son-in-law as assistant pastors of The Potter’s House

    TD Jakes appoints daughter, son-in-law as assistant pastors of The Potter’s House

    In a move that perhaps many would not have predicted years ago due to the dramatic twists and turns she has had in her life, including getting pregnant at age 13, televangelist T.D. Jakes installed his daughter Sarah Jakes Roberts, and her husband Touré Roberts, as the first ever assistant pastors of The Potter's House in the church’s 27- year history.

  • Northview Church defends hiring pastor accused of leadership abuse

    Northview Church defends hiring pastor accused of leadership abuse

    Northview Church in Indiana is defending the hiring of CJ Johnson to serve as their senior pastor in 2021 despite former members of the now defunct Southland City Church in Minnesota, where he served in a similar role accusing him of leadership abuse in an environment that also lacked financial transparency.

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