PHILADELPHIA – Late last year, Rev. Alfred Bradley planned a Christmastime surprise for the neighborhood he grew up in. He was bringing back the sound of church bells to the Fishtown neighborhood.

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 ...

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 ...

After thieves climbed up to the steeple and stole a set of loudspeakers last month, the sound of ringing bells is back just in time for Christmas at the Arlington Church of the Nazarene in East Akron ...

JOANETES, Spain (AP) — 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 ...

After an investment of nearly $500,000 and months of arduous training by two dozen dedicated ringers, the first notes from eight new bells will echo from St. Paul's United Methodist Church today. "In ...

NEWBURYPORT — For the second year in a row, the sound of Central Congregational Church bells will ring out across the city at noon this Valentine’s Day, thanks to a pair of Jacks and a Jill. “We hope ...

SALISBURY — November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month, and in observance of the month, Carolina Caring, an independent, community-based, non-profit health care provider, is kicking off ...

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+++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 ...