ApocaDocs: River Jordan, the site of Jesus' baptism, a 'sewage pipe'

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Posted Mon May 11 2009: from London Times:


	River Jordan, the site of Jesus' baptism, a 'sewage pipe' http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1242074598 If Pope Benedict hoped to immerse himself yesterday in the waters of the River Jordan, where Jesus was said to have been baptised by his cousin John, he will have been disappointed: the river is now such a polluted, denuded shadow of its former self that bathing is prohibited in its sluggish, brown waters. A United Nations report described the biblical waterway as a "sewage pipe" made filthy by pollution from farming in Israeli settlements in the Jordan Valley, by poorly managed sewage disposal from Palestinian cities in the West Bank and by waste water from Jordan and Syria.

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