Russia Warns Against Ice Baptisms

Chucking unwilling children into holes in the Siberian ice isn’t the great idea some Orthodox believers appear to think it is, Russian authorities warn. The trend for “ice baptisms”—usually carried out during the Russian Orthodox festival of Epiphany in January—has been in the spotlight since video surfaced of…

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Russia Warns Against Ice Baptisms

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