A baptism near Athens, Greece two weeks ago for the children of a same-sex couple has earned an official protest from the Greek Orthodox Church. Fashion designer Peter Dundas and longtime partner ...

STORY: Worshippers made their way down the riverbank and immersed themselves in the water where Christian tradition says John the Baptist baptized Jesus. The annual ceremony was led by the Greek ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Almost a dozen Greek Orthodox competed in the freezing waters of Istanbul's Golden Horn to retrieve a wooden cross in a ceremony Monday commemorating the baptism of Jesus ...

It's part of Epiphany, which falls each year on Jan. 6 and, for many Orthodox Christians, commemorates the baptism of Jesus. Jerome Angelopoulos emerges from English Bay with the cross.

As Orthodox protocol requires, Elpidophoros had informed the local metropolitan bishop that he would be performing a baptism in his diocese — but not that it would be on behalf of a gay couple.