The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany Beyond the ...

The church’s inauguration also reflected the Hashemite kingdom’s determination to establish itself as an essential stop-off point for pilgrims to the Holy Land.

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In Jordan, Bettany discovers the well-preserved Roman city of Jerash, and journeys to three biblical sites: Bethany Beyond the Jordan, the Dead Sea, and Machaerus, where John the Baptist was ...

Parolin inaugurated and consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, known as Bethany Beyond the Jordan ... Jordanian banks of the Jordan River: John Paul II in 2000, Benedict ...