TOKYO (AP) — A Nagasaki cathedral has blessed the final piece to complete its restoration nearly 80 years after being destroyed by the second U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Japan: a reproduction of its ...

Going into the third year of the pandemic, it’s become a ritual. The bell will ring on Monday for 900,000 dead – “a figure I can’t even comprehend,” the Rev. Randy Hollerith said. The cathedral has ...

Catholics in Nagasaki, Japan, have replaced a bell in a cathedral bell tower there almost exactly 80 years to the day after it was destroyed by the atomic blast that leveled most of the city at the ...

The Olympic Bell will join two other bells inside the cathedral close to the organ. The three bells will ring together during the Mass at the time of the consecration. U.S. Olympians Christopher ...

The National Cathedral on Thursday will toll its bell 700 times to mark the 700,000 people who have died from COVID-19 in the United States since the beginning of the pandemic, The Washington Post ...

The Washington National Cathedral paid tribute to the more than 900,000 people who have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. Monday evening. The cathedral said in a statement that it would toll its funeral ...