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Christian Heritage in Jordan: An Invitation for Jubilee Pilgrimage

Jordan’s religious landscape is woven from layers of civilizations and spiritual traditions, shaped by centuries of migration, empire, and cultural exchange. The Hashemite Kingdom has played a central role in safeguarding this heritage, upholding ...

Pella, City of a Thousand Faces: A City Between Stones, Wind, and Memory

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Pella, City of a Thousand Faces: The Decapolis and the Echo of a Galilean Teacher

When the Gospels say that Jesus crossed to “the other side of the Jordan,” they do not point to an abstract space. They gesture toward a concrete, layered geography: Transjordan, a belt of land between river and desert where cities shaped by ...

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 ...

Tracing Ancient Footsteps in Modern Jordan

Few landscapes gather as many narrative threads as Jordan. Within its rugged plateaus, river valleys, and desert plains lie locations tied to Jacob, Moses, Joshua, Elijah, John the Baptist, the Magi, and Jesus. Each is drawn from a different era ...

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