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The film, The First Temptation of Christ, infuriated fervent Christians in the country.<\/p>\n
Two million people signed a petition calling for it to be axed, and the production company was attacked with Molotov cocktails last month.<\/p>\n
In the ruling against Netflix, the judge said: “The right to freedom of expression… is not absolute”.<\/p>\n
However, the ban is only temporary while a final decision is made.<\/p>\n
Why has the film caused uproar?<\/p>\n
The parody film, which was run as a Christmas special, was created by Brazilian YouTube comedy group Porta dos Fundos.<\/p>\n
Many of the country’s conservative Christians were angered by the portrayal of Jesus bringing home a presumed boyfriend to meet his family.<\/p>\n
On Christmas Eve, a group attacked Porta dos Fundos’s office in Rio de Janeiro with fire bombs.<\/p>\n
One man suspected of having been part of the attack has fled to Russia, and Interpol are working to arrest him.<\/p>\n
What’s in the ruling?<\/p>\n
A judge in Rio de Janeiro ordered Netflix to take the film down, the BBC’s Daniel Gallas reports from S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n
Judge Benedicto Abicair said his temporary decision would appease furious Christians until a final decision is made by a higher court.<\/p>\n
“Exhibiting the ‘artistic production’… may cause graver and more irreparable damage than its suspension,” the judge wrote.<\/p>\n
Neither Netflix nor Porta dos Fundos has yet commented.<\/p>\n
Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro once said he would rather have a dead son than a gay son.<\/p>\n
His son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, called the Netflix show “garbage” on Twitter, adding that Porta dos Fundos “do not represent Brazilian society”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n