The new church, one of the largest Catholic churches in the Middle East, commemorates the place where the public ministry of Jesus began. “This place, which is the holy place of the baptism of ...

Some church denominations celebrate The Baptism of the Lord Sunday, Jan. 10. Jesus had the Holy Spirit ... The Catechism of the Catholic Church puts it well, “Baptism is the first and chief ...

This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the baptism of Jesus Christ — celebrated in the Catholic faith on Jan. 12.

For 24 years, the Catholic community in the region has made a pilgrimage, gathering around its patriarch, to celebrate the baptism of Jesus on Jan. 12. Speaking from the window of the Vatican’s ...