This is confirmation season. While some of our candidates receive this great sacrament in the fall or winter, the vast ...

Jordan is planning a major development at the historic Baptism site of Al Maghtas, aiming to transform the area into a tourist destination in time for the 2,000th anniversary of Jesus' preaching ...

Over 2,000 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 ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

Three popes have visited the believed site of Jesus’ baptism on the Jordanian banks of the Jordan River: John Paul II in 2000, Benedict XVI in 2009 and Francis in 2014. Pope Paul VI first ...

This tradition is illustrated by the archaeological evidence, which references the practice of baptism since the 4th century. The majority of Christian connotations accepted that Bethany beyond the ...

Baptism is the promise and seal of forgiveness. When a person is baptized, God is assuring them that they are washed of all their sins through faith. So, again I ask: Why was Jesus baptized?

a religious festival commemorating Jesus' baptism in the Jordan River. The annual festival is recognised by UNESCO as an important intangible cultural heritage. Sign up here. Followers marched ...

The Latin church dedicated to the baptism of Jesus (facade), just a few meters from the east bank of the Jordan, in the area known as “Bethany beyond the Jordan,” in the local language ...

Why is the baptism of Jesus so important? Let us find out. Rewinding just a little, the context was that the Jewish people were waiting for the Anointed One, the one who would vindicate them ...