The crowds of people standing on the banks of the River Jordan will know for certain that this is the greater person John has been telling them about.

For example, the Christian Bible details the baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist in the Jordan River, making it a sacred place for many believers. Overview of Drought and Climate Change in ...

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 ...

allowing each to build a new church in this important place on the banks of the Jordan River. John Paul II visited the site in 2000 on his historic Jubilee pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Pope ...