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Panama celebrates its black Christ, part of protest against colonialism and slavery

  • Written by S. Kyle Johnson, Doctoral Student in Systematic Theology, Boston College
The life-sized wooden statue of the Black Christ in St. Philip Church in Panama.Dan Lundberg/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Panama’s “Festival del Cristo Negro,” the festival of the “Black Christ,” is an important religious holiday for local Catholics. It honors a dark, life-sized wooden statue of Jesus, “Cristo Negro”...

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