Jordan is planning a major development at the historic Baptism site of Al Maghtas, aiming to transform the area into a ...

A shrine near the traditional site of Jesus' baptism on the River Jordan hosted an Epiphany procession ... which commemorates the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist, was capped at 50 due to ...

the site in the desert area near the Jordan River where, according to ancient tradition, the Gospel story of the baptism of Jesus at the hands of John the Baptist took place. The celebration will ...

preached a message from God The baptism carried out by John was full immersion in the River Jordan. Baptism was not a new idea. There is evidence that a monastic group called the Essenes used ...

Marking the 25th anniversary of Pope St. John Paul II’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Fr Rif’at Bader, a Jordanian priest of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, remembers that pilgrimage and its ...

particularly Bethany Beyond the Jordan (Al-Maghtas), the baptism site of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist, and the preservation of this religious heritage under the Hashemite leadership.