Church bells rang simultaneously across Switzerland on Friday (January 9), as the nation held a day of mourning for victims of a fire that killed 40 people on New Year's Day. Trump reaction to ...

Parishioners stand and sing a recessional hymn at the conclusion of Mass at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Cedar Rapids on Dec. 20, 2025. The church would no longer host a regular Sunday mass under ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 15th-century bell tower is in need of repair [Stephen Nicholls] A church bell cast nearly 400 years ago will fall silent for ...

A grinch is on the loose in New Jersey. A heartless burglar broke into a Garden State church three days before Christmas and trashed the place as they stole thousands of dollars in donations, ...

A Middlesex County church was burglarized just days before Christmas, with thousands of dollars stolen. A burglar climbed through the ceiling of St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church in the Monmouth ...

Nevertheless, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in a recent appearance of the CBS News broadcast, Face the Nation, seemed to carve out an exception to the principle of the rule ...

Gregorio Borgia / AP Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, the Vatican said Saturday, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will ...

Commissioned a century ago, the carillon bells now at The Riverside Church are ringing in the NYC Christmas season. (AP Video: Ted Shaffrey) AP reporter describes reactions from Congress as Epstein ...

A little more than 13 years ago, Monsignor Lawrence Persico was ordained and installed as the 10th bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Erie. In November, Bishop Persico celebrated his 75th birthday, ...

VATICAN CITY, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Pope Leo replaced Cardinal Timothy Dolan as the leader of the Catholic Church in New York, the Vatican announced on Thursday, sidelining a prominent U.S. Church figure ...

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon –In the Sahel region of Africa, the sound of church bells has fallen silent in towns like Sebba and Gorgadji in Burkina Faso. Forced to abandon their buildings under the threat of ...