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The Holy Land
Down the centuries hundreds and thousands of devout pilgrims have made
their way to the
Holy Land. This, the setting of the Incarnation, is
not merely the birthplace of the Christian faith but a country of miracles
and parables, of familiar Bible stories and the Passion of Christ.
Turkey & The
Seven Churches of Revelation
Since biblical times, Anatolia (Turkey) has played a major part in the history
of civilization.
The Old Testament contains a wealth of references
to the land and its people,
from Abraham father of the Jewish nation, who
came from Edessa, to Noah,
whose ark is said to have landed on Mount Ararat. In
the New Testament we read
from the book of Revelations about the Seven Churches
of Asia Minor.
Jordan
On the tour through Jordan we visit Historical and Biblical Sites, from Umm Qais
(Gadara) in the North to the sea port of Aqaba in the South. We stand
on Mount Nebo where Moses viewed the Promised Land; we visit the site of Bethany
beyond the Jordan, associated with the baptism of Jesus. At Madaba we visit
the Greek Orthodox Church of St George with its famous mosaic floor maps of
the Bible Lands. A tour to Jordan is not complete without a visit to the two
spectacular sites of Jerash and Petra. Jerash the best known of the Decaplois
cites is probably Jordan's most popular historical site after Petra. Petra
is undoubtedly Jordan's most famous attraction, a Nabatean city at the time
of Jesus.
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