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

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

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

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

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

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

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Orthodox believers celebrate Epiphany by bathing in a lake in the village of Leninskoe, near Bishkek. Camera: IGOR KOVALENKO.

Thousands of Orthodox Christian worshippers in Bulgaria on Monday braved the freezing winter weather to plunge into icy ...

St. Frances Cabrini Church ended the Christmas season with an Epiphany mass and Burning of the Greens, and transitioned into ...

How true that is! We celebrate the Solemnity of the Epiphany, the “shining forth” of Christ. Notice that the Greek word “epiphany,” ἐπιφάνεια, is an action. It therefore implies ...

Catholics in the small Brazilian city of Santo Antonio de Goias celebrated the Epiphany throughout the weekend and into ...