The holy water, as Anagnos explained, is not an unusual sight in their Greek Orthodox household. "I think this particular bottle of holy water was left over from Easter. We use holy water to either ...

In Serbia's Orthodox Christian community, the feast of the Epiphany is marked by the traditional "swim for the Holy Cross ... where the water temperature was just 1 degree Celsius.

MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of ... on Jan. 19 by immersing themselves in frigid water through holes cut through the ice of lakes and rivers ...