Greeks celebrate Epiphany, wishing for better future

Hundreds of worshippers plunged into rivers, ports and pools across Greece on Wednesday to mark Epiphany, an important festival of Christianity.

Russians take the Epiphany plunge as temperatures drop to -45C in Far East ( 2 video)

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Almost 94,000 people across Russia bathed in the ice-cold rivers and ponds over the night of January 18-19, braving the freezing winter temperatures to celebrate the Orthodox Christian holiday of Epiphany, the baptism of Jesus.
Bathers in Yakutia, in Russia’s Far East, had to perform the traditional triple plunge in exceptionally chilly temperatures of – 45 C (-49 F). The waters of the Lena River they submerged into were only a couple of degrees above freezing.