Inside Jordan’s plan to revamp the baptism site of Jesus

AMMAN – The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan announced this month a seven-year-project to revamp the baptism site of Jesus christ site located on the east bank of the Jordan River and visited annually by thousands of pilgrims. 

The $300 million project aims at creating a touristic village adjacent to “Bethany beyond the Jordan,” the baptism site, and is set to start in 2023 and go until 2030. It will be a reproduction of how life was…