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Jordan River, sacred to many, is dying.
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Byline: Joel Greenberg
DEGANYA, Israel _ At a baptismal site on the Jordan River just south of the Sea of Galilee, pilgrims kneel in the water as a priest intones a blessing, a high point of their visit to the Holy Land.
A few hundred yards downstream beyond an earthen dam, a pipe spews raw sewage into the riverbed, next to a canal dumping saline water collected from springs. With the fresh river water blocked by the dam, all that flows on is a polluted, salty stream meandering 60 miles south to the Dead Sea.
The Jordan, venerated by Christians as ...
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Magazine article from: Church History
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Magazine article from: Church History
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Christianity and the Middle East: Seventh Assembly of the Middle East Council of Churches
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Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christology.
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