{"id":22080,"date":"2014-02-14T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T20:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=22080"},"modified":"2014-02-14T16:48:39","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T21:48:39","slug":"february-14-2014-jordans-holy-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/02\/14\/february-14-2014-jordans-holy-sites\/22080\/","title":{"rendered":" Jordan, the Other Holy Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordanian Christians insist some of the most important ancient sites, such as the site of Jesus&#8217; baptism, are on their side of the Jordan River. &#8220;We are the ones who inherited this birthplace of Christianity. I think we are agents to carry this as witnesses to the whole world,&#8221; says Father Nabil Haddad, a priest in the ancient Melkite Catholic Church who lives in Amman. Correspondent Kim Lawton reports on the Christian presence in Jordan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use our interactive map to see the locations of some of the sites mentioned in this story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/a.tiles.mapbox.com\/v3\/religionethics.h87ghbg1\/mm\/zoompan,zoomwheel,geocoder,share.html\" height=\"500\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are the ones who inherited this birthplace of Christianity. I think we are agents to carry this as witnesses to the whole world,&#8221; says Father Nabil Haddad, a priest in the ancient Melkite Catholic Church who lives in Amman. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2014\/02\/14\/february-14-2014-jordans-holy-sites\/22080\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":22152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[1967,17926,325,8789,11,9711],"class_list":["post-22080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-holy-land","tag-interfaith","tag-jordan","tag-jordan-river","tag-middle-east","tag-orthodox-christian","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-international","faith-christian","faith-eastern-orthodox","faith-muslim"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>February 14, 2014 ~ Jordan, the Other Holy Land | February 14, 2014 | Religion &amp; 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