‘I’ve always wanted challenges’ … Walters at St Bartholomew’s church in Meltham, West Yorkshire.Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian One sunny August evening, Jean Walters was sitting in her ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — It's a sound that Grand Rapid's Westside residents have heard for centuries. The Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church has been ringing their bells since 1924. Sacred Heart of ...

In this new year of our Lord, 2026, let us not neglect to ring the church bells, says columnist Stephen Shoemaker ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. An error has occurred. Please try again ...

The sound of bells is being heard in a Wiltshire village with help from a group of young people who want to keep the ...

A new pope has been elected, and for the first time, he's from the United States.Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected Thursday after about 26 hours of the conclave.Vatican City burst ...

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 ...

Did you know the bell that features in the White Christmas Guinness TV ad resides in Christ Church Cathedral? The light tenor bell, one of 19 in the cathedral, rings on the stroke of midnight on ...

Bells reverberated across the Financial District on Saturday afternoon, producing thunderous clangs and glissandos. Bands had traveled as far as hundreds of miles to climb into the landmark Trinity ...

A set of 600-year-old church bells have been restored after they were found to be "falling apart". When the bells at St John's Church in Biddisham, near Axbridge in Somerset, were dusted off for the ...