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.
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Female victim of ex-Kanakuk Kamps director convicted for abusing boys files lawsuit
After a wave of lawsuits involving sex crimes with boys, a woman has now filed a lawsuit alleging Peter Newman, a convicted former director at the network of Christian sports camps called Kanakuk Kamps, sexually abused her when she was 9.
Sisters sue Coastal Church, former youth group assistant for $300M for childhood sex abuse
Two sisters have filed separate lawsuits seeking $150 million each against a Virginia multi-campus church and a former youth group assistant for the childhood sexual abuse they suffered beginning when they were just 6 and 10 years old.
Kidnapped US missionary Josh Sullivan rescued ‘miraculously unharmed’ after shootout left 3 dead
Five days after he was kidnapped by armed men from his church in Motherwell, South Africa, Tennessee missionary Josh Sullivan was rescued and “miraculously unharmed” following a “high-intensity shootout” that left three people dead.
Americans are swapping organized religion for personal truth: study
While respected Christian researchers like George Barna have been sounding the alarm on the dangers of syncretism to a biblical worldview in recent years, a new study published Monday suggests more Americans are leaving organized religion in search of personalized faith perspectives that embrace syncretism — a fusion of different religions.
Before abduction in South Africa, US missionary Josh Sullivan said he forgave man who robbed him
Months before he was abducted from his growing church in the impoverished Motherwell township in South Africa last Thursday, Tennessee missionary and married father of four Josh Sullivan said he was robbed of his wallet by a young neighborhood man who almost got killed for the crime.
A ministry in Brooklyn is teaching and proving that Jesus is stronger than addiction
Though he died in April 2011, the voice of Christian evangelist David Wilkerson still echoes loudly inside a well-kept neo-Federal style home at 416 Clinton Avenue in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill Historic District.
Ted Max resigns lead pastor role at Parkview Christian Church after 20 months
Twenty months after hiring Ted Max as its lead pastor, he and the multi-campus Parkview Christian Church in Illinois have mutually decided to take a step back from that decision.
More men turning to the Bible across every generation: study
Following years of declining Bible engagement in the U.S., nearly 10 million more Americans have engaged with the Bible this year compared to 2024. Across every generation, men have increased their engagement so much that the gap between the sexes has almost been erased, according to a new study.
Christian singer Amy Grant fights to save Nashville church founded by great-grandfather
Six-time Grammy winning Christian pop singer Amy Grant and other members of her family are now locked in a legal fight to save a church in Nashville, Tennessee, founded by her great-grandfather, civic leader, Andrew Mizell “A.M.” Burton.
NC county asks court to dismiss JD Greear-led megachurch’s religious discrimination lawsuit
Lawyers for the Chatham County Board of Commissioners in North Carolina have denied claims by The Summit Church that the county violated its civil rights when it rejected an application to rezone nearly 100 acres of land to house its Chapel Hill campus.
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