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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The family of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate who has been arrested and charged with the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, offered prayers for the family of the victim Monday night as the investigation of the murder continued.
Married worship leader arrested, fired after charges of sexually assaulting 16-year-old at church
Hunter Eubanks, a married worship leader who most recently served at Morningside Church in Tallahassee, Florida, has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl on church grounds.
Hip-hop’s first billionaire, Jay-Z, denies raping 13-year-old with Diddy: ‘Blackmail attempt’
Hip-hop’s first billionaire Shawn Carter, popularly known by his stage name Jay-Z, vowed to show Texas trial lawyer, Tony Buzbee, that he is not a celebrity to be toyed with after he was accused along with fellow rapper and music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs in a civil lawsuit Sunday of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000.
Michael Brown deactivating X account amid investigation into abuse allegations
Days after admitting to exercising a “definite lack of judgment” but denying allegations he engaged in sexual misconduct with a former female staffer he treated like a “family member” 23 years ago, Michael Brown, the founder of FIRE School of Ministry, says he will deactivate his account on the social media platform X until the investigation into the claims concludes.
Beloved pastor dies after falling through ice while skating after church
A beloved retired pastor who went ice skating after sharing the Gospel at his church in Minnesota on Sunday is now being remembered as a dedicated and active believer after he was found dead on Monday.
Vatican expels Texas church after nun accused of breaking chastity vow
After more than a year of feuding between Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson and Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Order of Discalced Carmelite in Arlington, Texas, over allegations she violated her vow of chastity with an unnamed priest, officials at the Vatican decided they will no longer recognize the monastery as a civil lawsuit between the two drags on.
Ex-minister at NM megachurch accused of sexually abusing woman he was counseling
The multi-campus Legacy Church in New Mexico has been named in a lawsuit accusing the organization of negligence after a woman alleged she was sexually abused for several months by a former minister at the church’s Steelbridge Ministries during her time receiving court-ordered drug treatment at the facility.
NY school that denied Bible club while allowing Gay Straight Alliance reverses stance
Officials at the Waterville Jr./Sr. High School in New York school who denied a student’s application to start a Bible club because it is “religious” while allowing others to establish clubs like the Gay Straight Alliance reversed their decision Thursday after they were threatened with a lawsuit.
Daystar’s Joni Lamb says 'Pete' did not abuse granddaughter, says child accused boy in preschool
Daystar Television Network's co-founder and President Joni Lamb pointedly shot down in more detail allegations by her son, Jonathan Lamb, and his wife Suzy that she covered up the sexual abuse of his daughter by a family member, claiming that her granddaughter accused a boy at her preschool of touching her.
Ex-youth pastor who filmed minors in church bathroom pleads guilty to possession of illegal images
Daniel Kellan Mayfield, a former youth pastor in South Carolina accused of filming young girls in the shower at a church bathroom without their knowledge, has pleaded guilty to one count of possession of illegal child sexual abuse images and could spend up to 20 years in prison and fined $250,000 for his crime, according to court records.
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