The exhibition features over 90 artifacts that narrate the history of Christianity in Jordan from its beginnings to the ...

The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany Beyond the Jordan on the banks of the Jordan River officially recognized by the church as ...

And that “holy place” has a special geographical significance. The baptism of Jesus took place in the Jordan River, in the valley east of Jerusalem, just north of the Dead Sea and not far from ...

AMMAN - Under the patronage of his majesty King Abdullah, the "Jordan: Dawn of Christianity" exhibition has been inaugurated in Rome, Italy. The exhibition, which runs from January 31 to February 28, ...

The Jan. 10 inauguration of a vast church on the very spot where Jesus Christ was baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan River was an event of significant symbolic importance, both ...

The Vatican Secretary of State, who presided over the consecration of the Latin Church at Al-Maghtas on behalf of Pope Francis, made a new appeal for a ceasefire, hostage release, and peace based ...

The climax of his baptism is the voice of the Father, as Jesus emerges from the river Jordan, who is heard to say, “You are my Son, the Beloved”, followed by words variously translated as ...

Two thousand years ago, Jesus stood on the rocky shores of the Jordan River. His hair and clothes were still dripping with the water of his baptism. Suddenly the sky opened. The Holy Spirit ...