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Michael LaFreniere, lead bell ringer at the San Luis Obispo mission, carries on a family and community tradition.

St Mary’s church in Patshull, Staffordshire. The church was constructed around 1743 replacing an earlier medieval church. In ...

The sound of church bells falls silent during Maundy Thursday in some localities, replaced instead by the distinctive wooden clapper known as the ċuqlajta. In Żejtun, this centuries-old tradition ...

Behind the deep chime of York’s Great Peter or the heft of London’s Great Paul is John Taylor’s bellfoundry. With pieces from ...

The sound of one pipe organ gives a congregation an inner heavenly glow, but the tones of two of the majestic musical beasts ...

Church Bells are ringing for the first time in four years at St John’s Mexborough as they celebrate reaching a significant ...

The city appears to float on water, a marvel of engineering and human tenacity that has endured for over a millennium.

Hundreds have attended funeral prayers for a Lebanese Christian party official known for his anti-Hezbollah stance and his ...

Coming to the close of the holy season of Lent, our 40-day period of preparation for the Resurrection of Christ at Easter, we notice some visible and audible signs in the sacred liturgy — our communal ...

In an exclusive extract from his new book Ukrainian Field Notes, author Gianmarco Del Re explores the soundscape of ...