+++ON HOLD++++ Sitting in a chair with ropes looped around both feet and hands, Joan Carles Osuna, a student of the Vall d'en Bas School of Bell Ringers, performs playing all four bronze bells at the ...

When the bell stopped ringing is a question parishioners at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jefferson City are trying to answer. The 800-pound bell fell silent sometime before the turn of the ...

Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound in many churches. Yet another centuries-old practice has remained in some ...

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!

SNOHOMISH — The church bell echoed through the Snohomish River valley. Farmers heard the sound and knew. The service was starting soon. Time to get going. A hundred years ago, locals gathered at the ...

The Rev. James Arter climbed a narrow ladder several stories Wednesday to reach the bell tower at First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Leechburg. As he manually rang one of the 28 bells, the melodic ...

After 22 years of silence, the bell at Bethlehem’s oldest Roman Catholic Church is ringing again. But not everybody is happy about it. The Holy Infancy Church on East Fourth Street in south Bethlehem ...

AMBRIDGE ― The iconic belltower in Ambridge will tick and chime like it did generations ago, as part of a special celebration at St. John's Lutheran Church. Everyone's invited to an Aug. 18 ...