Officials, real estate developers and experts participated on Sunday in the Fourth International Property and Real Estate Exhibition and Conference, PropertyLink‘09 which started in Amman yesterday.

Sunday morning in Jordan's capital Amman Pope Benedict 16th celebrated open air mass. Roman Catholics from across the Middle East attended the service. He is now ending his trip to Jordan and moving on to Israel and to the Palestinian territories.

On the second day of his week-long trip to the Middle East, Pope Benedict has condemned "the ideological manipulation of religion" and called for inter-faith dialogue. Speaking to Muslim leaders and other dignitaries Saturday at the Hussein bin Talal mosque in Amman, Jordan, the pontiff said religion should be a force for good, not for division.

The government of Jordan appear to have heard the millions of voices asking and pleading to kick the Israeli Ambassador out of Jordan and to annul the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty in an amazing turn of events.

A cave in Rihab, Jordan that archaeologists have just discovered could be the oldest Christian church in the world. The cave is an underground chapel dating back to AD33-70.

First lady Laura Bush is headed for the Middle East this month, the White House announced Monday, to promote awareness on breast cancer treatment and screening.

The top United Nations refugee official has praised Syria and Jordan for accommodating Iraqi refugees, and he has urged the international community to support their efforts.

Jordan's King ordered to speed up in implementing the country's nascent nuclear power program in a bid to cut energy imports.

Iraqi Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khalid Shraideh said Iraq has informed Jordan its readiness to provide Jordan with Iraqi oil.

Jordan has appealed for international help to deal with hundreds of thousands of Iraqis it is hosting on its soil. Mukheimar Abu-Jamous, the secretary-general of Jordan's Interior Ministry, told an international conference in Amman today that the influx of some 750,000 Iraqis into Jordan costs $1 billion a year in basic services, and heightens security concerns in the kingdom.

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved on June 12 a Global Environment Facility (GEF) Trust Fund grant of US$ 6.15 million, to support the Jordanian government's efforts in ecosystem management.

Jordanian King Abdullah II is hosting more than 700 politicians and business leaders at the World Economic Forum. Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni are among those expected to attend the three-day meeting in the Dead Sea resort of Shuneh.