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Pella, City of a Thousand Faces: Jacob and Esau

One of the most enigmatic episodes in Genesis recounts how the patriarch Jacob, alone at night beside the ford of the Jabbok River in the region of Gilead, wrestles until dawn with a mysterious ...

Mount Nebo Today: Mosaics, Memory, and Horizon

Just a few kilometers from Madaba, Mount Nebo impresses not with its height, but with its enduring presence. Rising from the western highlands of Jordan, this site—associated since ...

The Friar Who Made the Mountain Speak

Towers of devotion in the Desert: Umm ar-Rasas and the Stylite Monks

In the otherworldly landscape of the Jordanian desert lies Umm ar-Rasas, an archaeological site that preserves one of the most distinctive vestiges of asceticism in the ...

How to Experience the Jubilee in Jordan

The Christian Jubilee is fundamentally a spiritual journey. Established in the 14th century, it was envisioned as a time of reconciliation, forgiveness, and inner renewal. Every Holy Year, millions set out—physically and symbolically—toward ...

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