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home > fellows' stories > fall 1999 > jordan

JORDAN AND ST. JOHN

by Heather Szerlag , IRP Fellow, Fall 1999
Reprinted with permission of The Canadian Broadcasting System: THE WORLD THIS WEEKEND

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JORDAN, January 22, 2000
This month Jordan officially opened the John the Baptist Archaeological Park. The place: Wadi Kharrar on the east bank of the Jordan River. Jordanians claim it's the site where Jesus was baptized. As Heather Szerlag reports, Jordan hopes for a tourism boom if they can convince travellers to make the site a stop on their millennial tour of the Holy Land.

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