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Bullet-ridden chapel on River Jordan holds first mass since six-day war Harriet Sherwood © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Reuters Mass was celebrated on Sunday at the site where Jesus is believed to have been baptised on the banks of the River Jordan for the first time in more than half a century after more than 1,000 landmines were cleared. The service took place on Baptism of Christ Sunday, the day on which Christians commemorate Jesus’s baptism. The site has been off limits since the six-day war between Israel and some of its Arab neighbours in 1967. Israeli forces took control of the west side of the river from Jordan, which lies on the east side. The West Bank has been under Israeli military occupation ever since.

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