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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Bishop T.D. Jakes announced Sunday that he is handing over the leadership of his 80,000-member The Potter's House megachurch in Dallas, Texas, to his daughter Sarah Jakes Roberts and son-in-law, Touré Roberts.
Man claims megachurch youth pastor’s 16-year-old daughter began sexually abusing him at 14
Greater Grace World Outreach Church in Baltimore, Maryland, said they are investigating allegations made by a former member that church officials were aware that he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a daughter of Youth Pastor John A. Love beginning when he was 14 and she was 16.
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President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order Wednesday to establish a comprehensive national framework to prepare American students for the workforce of the future and spur innovation in American Artificial Intelligence.
James River Church announces exit from Assemblies of God, blindsiding national office
In a move that appeared to stun the national office Wednesday, Missouri's largest Assemblies of God congregation announced that its board of trustees unanimously decided to end affiliation with the world's largest Pentecostal denomination.
DOJ backs JD Greear-led megachurch’s religious discrimination lawsuit against county
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a statement of interest in support of a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by former Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear's The Summit Church in North Carolina, just over two weeks after lawyers for the Chatham County Board of Commissioners asked the court to dismiss it.
First Baptist Orlando Pastor Bill Curl forgives wife’s killer sentenced to life in prison
In an emotional session in the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida on Tuesday, First Baptist Orlando’s longtime Pastoral Care Minister, Bill Curl, forgave the man who fatally battered his wife during a home invasion earlier this year. The man pleaded guilty to the crime and was sentenced to life in prison.
Atlanta Dream Center, Assemblies of God accused of trafficking young missionary hopefuls in lawsuit
The Assemblies of God, along with the Atlanta Dream Center and multiple related organizations whose mission includes fighting human trafficking, have been accused in a federal lawsuit of trafficking hundreds of young adults seeking to become missionaries and pastors.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams suggests God’s hand was in dismissal of corruption case
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, whose criminal corruption case was dismissed with prejudice earlier this month, has suggested that God had a hand in the outcome of the legal action against him by the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York.
Man accused of murdering pastor in road rage incident goes on trial
Nearly three years after the Rev. Ronald K. Mouton was fatally shot in the chest after a 10-second argument with Uber driver Deshawn Longmire, the 25-year-old man is finally set to stand trial.
Tom Keesee, son of Faith Life Church founders, indicted on 11 counts of rape, other sex crimes
Following months of allegations of sexual abuse, Gary Thomas Keesee, a son of Gary and Drenda Keesee, founders and senior pastors of Faith Life Church in Ohio, was indicted by a grand jury on 27 counts of sex crimes, including 11 counts of rape.
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