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 ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — For more then 50 years the sound of the bells from First United Methodist Church Groves have floated across this small Southeast Texas town. The bells, now a digital recording run by ...

After waiting more than a century for the United States to return a trio of church bells looted during the Philippine-American war, a Catholic parish on the Philippines island of Samar will finally be ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - One of the world’s most famous Christmas carols was written more than 150 years ago on an organ that’s now tucked away in the chapel of a Tallahassee church. It’s a ...

AKRON, Ohio — Call it a Christmas miracle – just weeks after the speakers were stolen from the bell tower of an Akron church, two Ohio companies stepped up to replace them just in time for the holiday ...

The inside of the steeple of First United Methodist Church in Conway, which has a Flemish electronic carillon with speakers placed in its steeple that can be heard for blocks around. By Jason Lee ...

NEW BEDFORD — She did it once, but can she do it again? In late 2017, Suzanne Sullivan of Fairhaven, a longtime parishioner at St. Lawrence Martyr Church, led a successful effort to save the historic ...

Clanging atop towers and steeples, church bells have been calling Long Islanders to worship and marking historical occasions since Colonial days. They toll for memorials and weddings, mark the hours ...

Aidan McGartland receives funding from McGill University and the Ramsay Centre. Linglan Zhu receives funding from McGill University and Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ). McGill University provides ...