Likely site of Jesus' baptism now "a stagnant stream ... with raw sewage"

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Site of Jesus’ baptism almost off-limits Qasar al-Yahud, a few miles from where the biblical river spills into the Dead Sea, has drawn over 100,000 tourists each year, most of whom are Christian pilgrims who wish to undergo a baptism like their savior did 2,000 years ago — and in the very same spot. But drought and irrigation have turned the mighty lower Jordan River into a stagnant stream as i

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