Electricity from Naharayim powered Jewish and Arab cities alike, including Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem. It energized ports ...

During the liturgy, the faithful were sprinkled with holy water that had been collected from the Jordan River before Mass, ...

Environmentalists and Israeli officials clash over River Jordan pollution. JERUSALEM, July 29,2010 -- Qasr Al-Yahud is one of the most popular baptismal sites on the River Jordan. But it has found ...

The deadly attack on a Jerusalem synagogue yesterday escalated ongoing unrest in that city. For weeks, tensions have risen over a holy site contested by Muslims and Jews. That tension has spilled over ...

DEGANYA, Israel — At a baptismal site on the Jordan River just south of the Sea of Galilee, pilgrims kneel in the water as a priest intones a blessing, a high point of their visit to the Holy Land. A ...

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 spiritually ...