Kristen Burckhartt felt overwhelmed. She needed time to reflect, to let it sink in that she had just briefly soaked her feet in the water where Jesus is said to have been baptized, in the Jordan River.
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Israel pumps up religious tourism For the first time since 1967, Christians celebrated Mass at a war-damaged church in the West Bank, near one of the presumed sites of Jesus baptism in the Jordan River
Several people attended a Mass on Sunday, January 10, on the Jordan River in the West Bank, the place presumed to be the place of Jesus baptism. (Photo by NADIM ASFOUR/CTS)
With a fierce wind ruffling their brown habits, some 30 Franciscan friars gathered for a historic Mass last Sunday on the West Bank of the Jordan River at a strange little church that emerges from the beige sands like a small stone vessel.