St James's Catholic Church in Tiverton, Devon, is set to double in size under the proposals. Along with the new spire, a belfry will house two bells which will ring six times a week.

AMHERST — Battered by storms, ice and snow for two centuries, it was only a matter of time before the South Congregational Church’s post-and-beam steeple needed more than cosmetic repairs.

Across Europe, churches, convents and chapels stand empty and increasingly derelict after attendance shriveled over the last half-century.

Can someone explain what is causing the delay in the restoration of the belfry of the old St Venera church? This belfry has been hoarded for the past three years, yet there is no indication of ...

ST.-FLOUR, France — Struggling to raise funds for the restoration of his cathedral’s antique organ, a priest from St.-Flour, a small town in France’s heartland, came up with a creative solution.

Catholics in India’s Goa state have urged the authorities to immediately halt a housing-cum-commercial complex near the ruins ...

As church congregations across the United States wither and disappear, the buildings they leave behind are becoming private homes. By T.M. Brown When Louis Cahill was growing up in southern ...

The grounds of Catholic Kitasendai Church, located in a residential area in Miyagi Prefecture's capital city Sendai, are completely silent. The reinforced concrete building was completed in 1951.

JOANETES, Spain — Xavier Pallàs 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.

JOANETES, Spain (AP) — Xavier Pallàs 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.

CAMARINES SUR, Philippines – At the riverbank of Naga City, formerly Nueva Caceres, stands a 17th-century belfry of a church that has endured both the harshness and glory of time.