US returns church bells to Philippines after more than 100 years

After more than a century, the United States government has returned three church bells swiped by American forces as war booty from the central Philippine town of Balangiga. Ucanews.com reported that, after years of repeated demands for their return, the bells were brought home aboard a US military plane on 11th December. The United States... Read More

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August 14, 2018

Filipinos welcome US vow to return historic Catholic church bells

Filipinos welcomed an announcement by the United States that it planned to soon return church bells seized by American troops as trophies during the Philippine-American War more than a century ago. In a statement on 11th August, the US embassy in Manila said Congress already has been informed about plans to return the “bells of... Read More

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May 4, 2018

Philippine cardinal urges daily bell tolling to call attention to murders

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle called for church bells in the archdiocese to toll at 8pm each day to protest the continuing spate of killings in the country. He said the tolling of the bells will “haunt the perpetrators of violence and killing to remember their victims, never to forget them,” reported ucanews.com. “The bells beckon... Read More

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December 15, 2017

‘Outcry and uproar’: Congo’s bishops urge noise protest till election

Catholic bishops in Congo have instructed clergy to toll their church bells each week until fresh elections are held. “After morning Mass, we expect a prayer for the nation and the reading of extracts from bishops’ conference messages – with church bells sounding each Thursday,” Mgr Jean-Marie Bomengola, secretary of the bishops’ commission for social... Read More

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September 11, 2017

Manila cardinal asks churches to ring bells to remember drug-war deaths

Manila’s cardinal has ordered church bells to be rung in that archdiocese every evening starting on 14th September to remember the thousands of people killed in the government’s campaign against drug dealers and addicts. The archdiocese joined a long list of dioceses across the country that started commemorating the deaths by tolling church bells nightly.... Read More

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