NEW YORK — Barack Obama and his message of change will get a ringing endorsement on Inauguration Day from 12 bells at a church near ground zero. The full peal, which lasts 3 1/2 hours, rarely has been ...

STOCKBRIDGE — Precisely at 3 p.m. on Sunday, the bell at St. Paul's Episcopal Church rang out for four minutes, one minute for each century to mark the roots of slavery in our country. Historical ...

Following an extensive restoration project, the 145-year-old bell in the tower of St. John's Episcopal Church began to regularly ring again in June. Steve Hamm / Special Contributor The loud silence ...

RUSHDEN, England -- With snowy whiskers and a rotund frame, Alan Marks seems a fitting Santa to bring cheer to the good folk of this small English town 70 miles north of London. His festive gift is ...

For nearly 200 years the sounds of the bell ringing at Park Street Church have filled Boston Common every hour, yet for more than a half-century those sounds have come from an audio recording. Now, ...