Meet the Muslim actor playing Jesus in Bill O’Reilly’s ‘Killing Jesus’
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(RNS) “Bless you for playing Jesus, peace be upon him.”
This was the reaction of Lebanese-born actor Haaz Sleiman’s mother after she learned that her son had been cast as Jesus in National Geographic Channel’s Killing Jesus. The three Abrahamic religions will collide on Palm Sunday this year when the television special premieres, with a 24-year-old Muslim actor playing Jesus.
