Centuries-old bells were stolen from church spires in three sleepy villages in Provence, a region in southeastern France, in July and the early part of this month, leaving the police scratching their ...

The bronze bell, heavy as a minivan and wider than a fridge, groaned to life and rang out across the flat roofs of Montreal. It was 10:17 a.m. – no mass, wedding or funeral to announce. Just a test.

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left “a sonic gap” in the landscape. A bell inside the Dom Tower in Utrecht, the ...

A church bell preparing for travel, maybe it's confiding its plans to the local mayor. Photo by MEHDI FEDOUACH / AFP If you are in France on Good Friday, you will notice two things - first this isn't ...