The video of the tradition of celebrating Christians celebrating Epifney is getting viral by connecting to Mahakumbh
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Claim It can be seen in the video that after watching Mahakumbh, some Christians are also motivated to organize such events in their religion.
Fact check Boom found that the claim of people of Christian religion to take a dip in water, inspired by Mahakumbh, is wrong. The viral video is during the celebration of Christianity Epiphini, in which Orthodox is a dip in the reservoir in memory of the baptism in the Jordan River of Christian Jesus Christ.
A video of a priest diverted into a lake on social media is viral, with which it is being claimed that some Christians have been inspired to organize such events in their religion after watching Mahakumbh. Boom found that the claim being made with viral video is wrong. Pastor appearing in the video, under the celebration of Christianity, Epiphany, is taking a dip in water in memory of Baptism in Jordan River of Jesus Christ.
Bapti rites Is, which literally means ‘dipping in water’. In this, the person baptized is kept under water for a short time or sprinkled water drops on his head and made a member of the Christian church. During this time he is often formally given a name.
In the viral video, a pastor can be seen landing in a reservoir. People standing around the reservoir are also seen recording it. Facebook, a user shared the video with an English caption and claimed, ‘After watching Mahakumbh, some Christians were motivated to organize a similar event for their religion. As a result, a father proposed the idea of taking a dip in a lake and from next year this religion will start its own version of the Kumbh Mela on that lake. User He further wrote, ‘It seems that these people are lacking in honest because they adopt our method from our scriptures, yet we criticize us …. Is this practice found in the original Bible, or “Christian The Bible will be changed to include this new form of Aquarius “. (English to Hindi translation)
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To investigate the fact check, first of all we reached the Mansion Ticket ID @danilescuandrei on the video with the help of VPN. There we found this video uploaded on 21 January 2025, in its caption, it was written in Russian language, “The festival of Epifini in the city of Slobozia. 19-01-2025.”
In its comment section, many users described it as the holy day of the baptism of Jesus Christ, which would celebrate Orthodox Church every year.
After this we discovered about such practice in Christianity. We got many articles related to this. BBC A report by Russia and East Europe’s Orthodox Christian celebrated Epiphini festival on 19 January in memory of Jesus Christ and in honor of Holi Trinity, he himself dipped in a pit of icy water three times in honor of Holy Trinity.
It is believed that this tradition provides good health to the devotees and washes their sins. All the water becomes pure during Epifney. Photos related to this tradition can be seen in this article. A guardian Report In Russia President Vladimir Putin is shown to discharge this practice. It was also told that while celebrating Epiphini, he took a dip in the icy water of a lake. It was also reported that in the Russian Orthodox tradition, the water blessed by the pastor is considered holy and pure during Epipni.
This festival is a symbol of baptism in the Jordan River of Jesus Christ. In this context, a Catholic pastor also told Boom that it is a very ancient tradition whose orthodox pastors follow. They take a dip in a reservoir to celebrate the festival of baptism of Jesus. He further explained that Holi Trinity in it takes a dip three times to show the father, son and the Holy Spirit.
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