Father Sergio Pérez, superior of the Community of the Institute of the Incarnate Word established on the site of the baptism ...

Three popes have visited the 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.

He also invited international pilgrims to visit the church, the Baptism Site, and other Christian pilgrimage locations in Jordan ... Pope Benedict XVI blessed the cornerstone of the church on May 10, ...

Rives said that Jesus "is the King who comes ... revealed in Christ's baptism, Rives said, is "the fullness of the Godhead presented: The Son is baptized in the Jordan River, the Holy Spirit ...

The whole historic baptism site ... It was Pope Benedict XVI who, during a visit to Jordan in 2009, laid the foundation stone for the building, alongside King Abdullah II. The project, funded ...

Pope Francis returned to St. Peter's Square ... This feast commemorates the moment when Christ went to receive the baptism of penance preached and administered by John the Baptist in the Jordan. What ...

Ahead of the 'Jordan: Dawn of Christianity' exhibition in the Vatican, Father Rifat Badar, a Jordanian priest with the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, describes how the nation offers hope to refugees ...

AMMAN - Secretary of State of the Holy See Cardinal Pietro Parolin on Tuesday concluded his visit to Jordan, where he presided over the Mass inaugu ...

The Holy See announces that Pope Francis has appointed Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin as a papal envoy to inaugurate the Church of the Baptism of the Lord in Jordan on Friday (JT ...

The structure stands on land in the Wadi al-Kharrar area donated by King Abdullah ... Church of the Baptism of Jesus in Wadi al-Kharrar, the site in the desert area near the Jordan River where ...

We have just heard in the Gospel the words that rang out from heaven when Jesus was baptized by John in the River Jordan ... salvation! — Pope St. John Paul II, Feast of the Baptism of 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 ...