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Authorities in Siberia say more than 100 Russian Orthodox believers have been hospitalized after drinking holy water during Epiphany celebrations in the eastern city of Irkutsk.
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AFP – Thousands of Orthodox Christians braved rain on the banks of the Jordan river on Monday to plunge into plastic tubs filled with its murky water to celebrate Jesus’s baptism.
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Russian Orthodox pilgrims celebrate Epiphany by being baptised.
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AP – The gunman who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II says he will begin considering book, film and television documentary offers after his release from a Turkish prison later this month.
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On January 6, Italy celebrates the national holiday for the Christian Feast of the Epiphany, to commemorate the manifestation of Christ to the magi, or wise men.
But it’s also a popular tradition that La Befana – an ugly Christmas witch – gives candies and gifts to deserving children, or coal to the naughty ones.
In Rome, the tradition includes a trip to the historic center, to shop at the Christmas booths at Piazza Navona, filled with toys and gifts, and above all throngs of people.
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Madrid, Spain, Jan 6, 2010 / 12:58 pm (CNA).- On the eve of Epiphany, Right to Life in Spain opted to send a float from a parade overflowing with coal instead of a gift to Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero because of the pro-abortion policy his government has been implementing in Spain.
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Television and theater actor Casey Groves had an epiphany near a rivulet nine years ago while re-reading the one-man play he performed as a high school senior at De La Salle High School in New Orleans about Hawaii’s Catholic hero, Father Damien. ‘I was
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Chalk up another honor for the moviemakers from Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia. Their drama Fireproof has won this year’s Epiphany Prize for the Most Inspiring Movie of 2008.
The $100,000 top prize was presented Wednesday night at the annual Movieguide Faith and Values Awards Gala in Beverly Hills, California. Fireproof stars Kirk Cameron as a fireman struggling to save his marriage.
Produced for just $500,000, the film earned more than $33 million at the box office and is now a best-selling DVD. Fireproof also has inspired a best-selling book, The Love Dare.
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It was his seventh year taking part in the Epiphany ritual: the trance-like preparation, the electric shock of the water and the 20- or 30-second wait for a feeling he described as “nirvana.” As cross-country skiers picked their way through the woods, Mr. Pushkov stood by himself, barefoot and steaming. The midday sun was just visible above the horizon, as white and remote as a full moon.
Monday was Russian Orthodox Epiphany, and roughly 30,000 Muscovites lined up to dunk themselves in icy rivers and ponds, city officials said. The annual ritual baptism, which is believed to wash away sins, is enjoying a boisterous revival after being banished to villages during the Soviet era.
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Rome, Jan 8, 2009 / 03:18 pm (CNA).- Amidst the suffering caused by the conflict in the Gaza Strip but with the hope of a peace accord soon being reached, Christians in Bethlehem celebrated the solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord at the Basilica of the Nativity.
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It is widely thought of as the end of Christmas and the date by which festive decorations must be taken down in order to avoid bad luck.
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Religious cleansing is taking place in many Muslim Middle Eastern states. –
The LA Times reports Even Americans unschooled in the history of the Middle East know that
Iraq comprises Sunni, Shia and Kurdish Muslims, thanks to the Bush
administration’s much-publicized effort to promote reconciliation among
those groups. Often overlooked is the fact that Iraq has an ancient Christian population that has suffered grievously from the instability that followed the U.S. invasion.
More than 1,300 Christians recently fled
the city of Mosul after 14 were killed — perhaps by Al Qaeda in Iraq
– following a protest about an election law that didn’t provide
Christians with fair representation on provincial councils. But that is
only the latest exodus of Christians from Mosul, which served as a
refuge for those driven out of Baghdad, and from Iraq as a whole. A
Chaldean Catholic archbishop has warned that Christians in his country
face “liquidation.”
Reuters reports A Christian family huddles in an austere room in a monastery in
northern Iraq, their belongings piled up around them. It is now home,
since members of their religious minority became targets of sectarian
attacks.
The father, an engineer who was so scared that he asked to keep his
name and that of his family unidentified, rushed his wife and two
daughters to the Chaldean Catholic al-Saida monastery at the foot of
arid mountains in northern Iraq on October 9, a day after hearing that
four fellow Christians were killed.
“The explosions continue. There is no safety,” he says with his youngest daughter draped on his lap.