So it went unrung for several years until a separate concrete-block tower was built for it as part of a 1908 church expansion. Westlake United Methodist undertook what turned out to be a yearslong ...

All six bells have been been ringing once again at a Grade II listed church which was gutted by a fire in 2014. A blaze, blamed at the time by an electrical fault, engulfed St Peter's Church in the ...

For centuries, the sound of church bells has called the faithful to prayer, not just before Mass but during its holiest moments. Beginning in the late 12th century, many churches rang their tower ...

St. Helena Catholic Church’s century-old bell rang with a thud. The old bell has never been the same since the church’s destruction in a 1945 fire, says lifelong St. Helenan Al Butala. It was Butala ...

Thousands of church bells tolled simultaneously across the country for several minutes at noon today, as Catholic and Protestant churches joined in the growing clamor for the immediate abolition of ...

A new pope has been elected, and for the first time, he's from the United States.Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected Thursday after about 26 hours of the conclave.Vatican City burst ...

JOANETES, Spain — Xavier Pallàs plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a church bell. Clang-clong!

For more than 60 years, the bells of All Saints Episcopal Church in Western Springs have been a regular part of life in the neighborhood around Walnut Street and Woodlawn Avenue. But in late Fall 2023 ...

Bells reverberated across the Financial District on Saturday afternoon, producing thunderous clangs and glissandos. Bands had traveled as far as hundreds of miles to climb into the landmark Trinity ...