+++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 ...

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.

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 church bell ...

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 ...

A defunct church belltower in Leechburg will soon be operational again, thanks to the fundraising work of church volunteers the last five months. “I had a Jesus moment,” said the Rev. James Arter of ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The church bells are the talk of the town in Philadelphia's Fishtown section. Some people who live in the area are happy they are up and ringing, but others aren't fans 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 ...

The oldest church bells in the U.S. hang inside of Boston's Old North Church. And on Independence Day, members of a bellringing guild will pull their ropes. Here's WBUR's Andrea Shea with a preview.

Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., that galvanized the civil rights movement. To commemorate, churches across the city rang their bells ...

CHURCH bells rang in unison, at midday on Friday, from Cape Town to George, Bloemfontein to Mdantsane, crescendoing in Soweto at Holy Cross Anglican Church right over the iconic Hector Peterson ...

Churches in Birmingham rang bells Friday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the church bombing that killed four young girls and invigorated the civil rights movement. Yesterday was the 60th ...