Santa Barbara Earthquake Centennial Interfaith Prayer Service brought together a diverse group on the steps of the Santa ...

WATERVLIET — The city’s Meneely bells rang often when tolled in 12 churches, but that familiar sound went silent as houses of worship closed and bells were removed. The sounds of bells ringing ...

The shift to mechanical tolling devices over the past century has flattened the bells’ dynamic songs and muted their messaging powers, said Pallàs, the school’s founder and director.

WINDER, Georgia − Cristina Irimie's mother was at home in her tiny Romanian village last week when she heard church bells tolling, a sign that a member of the community had died.

To hear church bells toll as uniquely as they had in the past was first jarring to contemporary Valenecians, Mr. Llop i Bayo admits. His community of bell-ringing restorationists were regarded as ...

The shift to mechanical tolling devices over the past century has flattened the bells’ dynamic songs and muted their messaging powers, said Pallàs, the school’s founder and director.

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! Clang-clong ...

For most, church bells are just a quaint bit of automated background noise. But Pallàs and his 18 students at the Vall d’en Bas School of Bell Ringers are trying to change that by resuscitating ...

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 ...

Church bells speak again in Spain thanks to effort to recover the lost ‘language' of ringing by ... the tolling of church bells was our most important communication method,” said Pallàs, ...

“For centuries, the tolling of church bells was our most important communication method,” said Pallàs, standing inside the belfry which doubles as his classroom.

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 ...