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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Mother charged with murder of toddler, infant sons she thought were possessed by demons
A 22-year-old New York City mother has been charged with the murder of her sons, a toddler and an infant, she allegedly thought were possessed by the devil after police say they were found submerged in a bathtub inside her apartment at a homeless shelter with multiple stab wounds on Saturday.
2 injured in drive-by shooting outside Nashville church during funeral
Family members and friends of a 19-year-old woman shot dead in Nashville, Tennessee, earlier this month were forced to run for their lives after a church where the woman’s funeral was being held was sprayed with bullets in a drive-by attack on Saturday.
43% of Brits think metaverse will drive them toward the matrix as celebrities embrace virtual worlds
Some 43% of British people believe the metaverse will eventually lead them toward the matrix, “a simulated reality created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population” as heat and electrical activity from their bodies are used as an energy source, data from a new study show.
Parody ‘Jesus Christ’ account gets verified on Twitter and lots of prayer requests
Twitter’s new boss, Elon Musk announced Monday that the company has suspended the relaunch of their $8 a month Blue Verified subscription program until they have a strong system in place to prevent the verification of impersonators such as a parody account of Jesus Christ with nearly 900,000 followers.
Yale president calls report on university’s treatment of suicidal students disturbing ‘misinformation’
Yale University President Peter Salovey called a recent report by The Washington Post alleging that the school pressures suicidal students to withdraw and then reapply to get back into one of the world's most prestigious institutions of higher education "deeply disturbing for the misinformation it contains."
Megachurch pastor still preaching despite claims he stepped back from ministry over prostitution arrest
Despite a recent claim by Rock Church International in Virginia Beach that their lead pastor, John Blanchard, “voluntarily stepped back as lead pastor and from all his ministerial duties” due to a prostitution arrest, he was still boldly preaching at a prophetic conference in Texas last weekend.
4 University of Idaho students likely murdered in sleep, coroner reveals; vigil planned
Four University of Idaho students who were stabbed to death inside a home they shared in Moscow were likely attacked in their sleep, investigators revealed Sunday as security officials, including the FBI, continue a feverish hunt to find their killers.
‘I'm a Christian, not a Punk:’ Wife of relationship Guru Derrick Jaxn curses critics with Scripture
Forcefully declaring Scripture is more powerful than "carnal clapbacks," Da'Naia Jackson, the Christian wife of popular relationship guru Derrick Jaxn, publicly cursed detractors who mock and slander their names with Bible verses proclaiming suffering on their families, including loss of life.
Boy, 2, starves to death inside NY apartment after father suffers fatal heart attack
Nine months after David Conde Sr., 59 and his son, David Conde Jr., 2, were found dead inside an apartment in Geneva, New York, investigators have concluded that the toddler died of starvation when he was left with no one to care for him after his father suffered a fatal heart attack inside the home.
Megachurch asks congregants to forgive pastor for prostitution arrest because ‘all have sinned’
The leadership team of Rock Church International cited Romans 3:23 Wednesday as they urged congregants to extend forgiveness to the Rev. John Blanchard in an announcement that he has “voluntarily stepped back as lead pastor and from all his ministerial duties” for the second time in just over a year following his arrest for solicitation of prostitution last fall.
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