Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the temperatures around minus 20 Celsius (minus 4 Farenheit) participants plunged into the ice-cold lake which was lightened ...

SOFIA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Dozens of Bulgarian men danced and sang in the cold waters of the Tundzha river in the central Bulgarian town of Kalofer to mark the Christian holiday of Epiphany on Wednesday ...

It's not exactly the Jordan River, but that isn't stopping Russian Orthodox believers from plunging into the icy Moscow River in their traditional Epiphany celebration. Subscribe to read this story ad ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year on this day, followers of the Russian Orthodox Church commemorate the baptism of Jesus Christ in the River Jordan by ...

As tradition dictates, Russian Christians mark Orthodox Epiphany, which celebrates the baptism of Jesus Christ, with a nice cold plunge into an outdoors ice bath in below-freezing temperatures.