ALONG THE JORDAN RIVER (AP) — The Bible says Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River. The river’s eastern bank, modern-day Jordan, and its western one both house baptismal sites, where rituals ...

On Tuesday, the Jordan River crossings (Kasser Al-Yahud) hosted an event commemorating the historic crossing of the Jordan River by the Israelites approximately 3,300 years ago. Led by the Jordan ...

Jordan announces a $100 million project to expand the facilities at the Jordan River site venerated as the place where Jesus was baptized. The “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” site lies on the ...

The Bible says Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River. The river’s eastern bank ... citing factors such as Israel’s open-ended occupation of lands it captured in 1967 and a lack of a ...

The Bible says Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River. The river’s eastern bank ... citing factors such as Israel’s open-ended occupation of lands it captured in 1967 and a lack of a ...

Though the faith-based film they made didn’t exactly connect with audiences, Johnny and June Carter continued to return to Israel to be where Jesus had walked during his time on Earth. In 1971, when ...

Today we are visiting one of my favorite sites: Qasr El Yehud (Arabic for break through point of the Jews) on the Jordan River, by far the most mentioned body of water in the bible (181 times).

Survivalist and TV star Bear Grylls recently was baptized in the Jordan River ... who has been open about his faith in the past, shared a photo of himself in the river’s waters.

They thought so much of themselves both spiritually and temporally that they named the river running through the area the Jordan River, to suggest that a very special people had now crossed into ...

The Bible says Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River. The river’s eastern bank ... citing factors such as Israel’s open-ended occupation of lands it captured in 1967 and a lack of a ...