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 ...

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 ...

From “Jingle Bells” to the street-corner bell ringers of the Salvation Army, the sound of the Christmas season is bells. But bell ringing has a rich history, integrated into daily and liturgical life ...

IWROTE the other day about once-common bell sounds that have all but disappeared, and one of them was the doorbell. One of my grandchildren has a book that features a long vertical panel of ...

St David's Cathedral used to have too few bellringers but now there's a waiting list One new recruit grew up near the cathedral and could hear the bells from their home Tower captain Doug Nichols says ...

A new bell-ringing centre is silencing its bells during practice so members do not bother their neighbours. The Holy Trinity Church in Street, Somerset, uses muffles, which are fitted to the clappers ...

For people feeling restless, anxious or increasingly alienated during the coronavirus crisis, many Connecticut towns are suggesting a round of bell ringing. Neighborhoods in at least a half-dozen ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Those who have been affected by cancer in some way through a family member, a friend, or maybe yourself, may have heard of the cancer bell. Patients ring bells in hospitals around ...