Climate change is threatening the traditional ice-bathing of Orthodox Christians on Epiphany: In many places in Russia and ...

In Serbia's Orthodox Christian community, the feast of the Epiphany is marked by the traditional "swim for the Holy Cross." ...

Video. Epiphany ceremonies were held throughout North Macedonia, with the Holy Cross thrown into the water to commemorate the ...

A man steps down to plunge as a cross is reflected in icy water before celebrating the Orthodox Epiphany in the Stroginskaya ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in east Ukraine as she ...

However local emergency services in some regions cancelled events, saying it was too hazardous for worshippers to cut bathing ...

Russians in the southern city of Anapa took their traditional Epiphany dips in waters affected by a major oil spill, ...

Thousands of Orthodox Christians marked the feast day of Epiphany on Sunday with a traditional dip into icy water.

Across Russia, the devout and the daring celebrate Epiphany on January 19 by immersing themselves in frigid water through ...

Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of ...

TASS-FACTBOX. On January 19, Orthodox believers in Russia celebrate Epiphany, or the Baptism of the Lord, one of the 12 major Christian holidays (along with Easter) dogmatically connected with the ...

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