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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Tributes praising her skills as a mother, businesswoman and socialite who was “more than a pretty face” followed the sudden death of former President Donald Trump’s first wife Ivana Trump at her home in New York City Thursday.
As millions face global hunger crisis, World Vision seeks $2 billion for the food insecure
Edgar Sandoval Sr., president and CEO of World Vision USA, says the COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by the war in Ukraine, climate shocks and inflation, has turned a once looming hunger crisis into a present danger for nearly 4 million people in Kenya, and millions of others around the globe.
Tetsuya Yamagami, Shinzo Abe’s alleged assassin, blamed Unification Church for mother’s bankruptcy
Tetsuya Yamagami, the 41-year-old man charged with the assassination of Japan's former and longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last Friday, allegedly targeted the late politician because he thought he was connected to the Unification Church, which he blamed for his mother going bankrupt.
World to reach 8 billion people in November, India to unseat China as most populous in 2023: UN
By Nov. 15, the world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion, and by 2023, India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country, according to a new report from the United Nations.
Illinois pastor loses 2 daughters and sister in tragic highway crash
An Illinois pastor and his family are now grieving the loss of two of his three daughters and his sister after a tragic crash along Old U.S. Highway 50 on Friday.
Assemblies of God branch sued pastor accused of having sex with at least 3 congregants
A branch of the world's largest Pentecostal denomination recently sued several Brave Church of Miami board members for allowing their now-former pastor to continue leading even though an investigation found "significant incidents of gross sexual misconduct and immoral actions."
Pastor John Gray hospitalized with life-threatening saddle pulmonary embolism
Megachurch Pastor John Gray has been hospitalized with a life-threatening pulmonary embolism he called an “illegal transaction from Hell" as his wife, Aventer, is urging his followers to bombard Heaven with prayers so her husband can receive a “miracle” from God.
Fewer than half of Evangelicals believe Bible is literally true: study
While biblical literalism has long been held as the most dominant method of interpreting Scripture among Evangelicals, results of a new poll released by Gallup show that fewer than half of Evangelicals and born-again Christians believe the Bible should be taken literally.
10 reactions to Japan’s Shinzo Abe assassination: Biden ‘stunned,’ Trump calls it ‘bad news for the world’
World leaders reacted with a range of emotions shortly after the assassination of Japan’s former and longest-serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe, Friday morning. Abe died at the age of 67 after he was shot while campaigning for a candidate ahead of national elections.
$50K reward offered for return of $2M gold tabernacle stolen from Brooklyn church
A $50,000 reward is now being offered for the return of a centuries-old solid gold tabernacle worth $2 million that was ripped from the altar of the St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, New York in May.
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