The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at Bethany Beyond the Jordan on the banks of the Jordan River officially recognized by the church as ...

This is Holy Week for Christians. It is the last week of Lent and began with Palm Sunday on March 20. The days between Palm Sunday and Maundy Thursday are known as Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday and ...

Parolin inaugurated and consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, known as Bethany Beyond the Jordan ... s annual pilgrimage to Jesus’ purported baptismal site.