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Steven Garasai Tari (1971 – 29 August 2013), also known as Black Jesus, was a Papua New Guinean religious figure, leader of a Christian-influenced cargo cult, who claimed to be the Messiah or the Christ, and is notorious for alleged rape and murder. He was convicted of four counts of rape in 2010 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno (Filipino: Mahál na Poóng Jesús Nazareno), officially and liturgically known as Jesús Nazareno, and popularly known as the Black Nazarene (Spanish: El Nazareno Negro; Filipino: Poóng Itím na Nazareno), [1] is a life-sized dark statue of Jesus Christ carrying the True Cross.
Black Jesus is an American live-action sitcom created by Aaron McGruder (creator of The Boondocks) and Mike Clattenburg (creator of Trailer Park Boys) that aired on Adult Swim. The series stars Gerald "Slink" Johnson, Charlie Murphy, Corey Holcomb, Kali Hawk, King Bach, Andra Fuller, and John Witherspoon. The series premiered on August 7, 2014.
The Cristos Negros or Black Christs of Central America and Mexico trace their origins to the veneration of an image of Christ on a cross located in the Guatemalan town of Esquipulas, near the Honduran and Salvadoran border. This image was sculpted in 1595 in wood and over time it blackened and gained a reputation for being miraculous.
Perrance Shiri (1955–2020; also "Black Jesus"), retired Zimbabwean air officer Steven Tari (1971–2013; also "Black Jesus"), Papua New Guinean religious figure Black Jesus, a character from the 1975 film Coonskin
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For some, this blackness was due to Jesus's identification with black people, not to the color of his skin, [58] while others such as the black nationalist Albert Cleage argued that Jesus was ethnically black. [59] A study which was documented in the 2001 BBC series Son of God attempted to determine what Jesus's race and appearance may have ...
The Black Christ of Esquipulas is a darkened wooden image of Christ enshrined within the Cathedral Basilica of Esquipulas in Esquipulas, Guatemala. It is one of the famed black Christological images of Latin America .