Xavier Pallas 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!

The bells were taken down after specialists found the bell frame to be dangerously rotten, and the bell metal in the four ...

Crews also were able to recover the church bell that in 2020 fell from the top of the bell tower all the way to the building’s basement as high winds from the derecho battered the tall structure.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- It's the dawn of a new era at a historic Allentown church that once housed the Liberty Bell. The Old Zion's Reformed United Church of Christ is now the downtown campus of ...