The celebrations include a costumed parade with Black baby Jesus and lots of music and dancing. Every February, residents of Quinamayó, a town in southwest Colombia, celebrate Christmas.

The image involved an alteration of Poland’s most-revered icon, the Mother of God of Czestochowa, popularly known as the Black Madonna and Baby Jesus of Czestochowa.

The New Testament refers to a number of black people as well, including Simon of Cyrene, who carried Jesus’ cross (Matthew 27:32), and the Ethiopian eunuch, the emissary of Queen Kandake (or ...

The nativity scene outside St. Mark’s Episcopal Church features a Black baby Jesus swaddled in a keffiyeh lying in a bed of broken bricks and clumps of concrete and wire.

A Mexican statue of a baby Jesus resembling an adult Phil Collins has become a social media phenomenon. But the history of depictions of baby Jesus unearths some interesting parallels to this work.