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

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

The monk chastised President Vladimir Putin as a “traitor to the Motherland” who was serving a Satanic “world government,” and denounced the head of the Russian Orthodox Church ...

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

Just as ancient Roman Empire had its protective geniuses of war, so in today’s dominant new patriarchal martyrology, the ...

Cultures across the globe have their version of utopia: the Garden of Eden, Elysium, Shambhala. In the heart of Eurasia, ...

People plunge in icy water to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany near the St. Serafimovsky Monastery on Russian Island in ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in eastern Ukraine as she celebrated Orthodox Epiphany in a Russian-affiliated church, despite the war.

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

After half an hour, we saw a cluster of buildings topped by the distinctive onion domes of the Russian Orthodox Church: the ...

18, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) People plunge in icy water to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany near the St. Serafimovsky Monastery on Russian Island in Russian far east port Vladivostok ...