After 177 years, a stolen bell is returning to the First Presbyterian Church in Iowa City. Reverend Michael Hummer, the church's co-founder, stole the bell in 1848 after being expelled for his ...
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has returned a 177-year-old bell to the First Presbyterian Church of Iowa City after the bell was stolen and ended up in the ...
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 ...