MOSCOW—At the top of the bell tower of Danilov Monastery, fruit flies buzz around the dark metal bells and a cool breeze sweeps off the nearby Moscow river. The 11 bells hang in heavy silence, far ...

A set of antique bells given to Harvard University in 1930 is creating a bigger din than officials want to hear. The bells once belonged to Moscow’s Saint Danilov Monastery, thought to be the oldest ...

JERUSALEM — After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world, roared back to life on Tuesday, its ancient sound echoing through a monastery in ...

GLENWOOD — June Kasparek works the graveyard shift and wakes every morning to the loud clanging of bells. The nurse goes to bed at 6 a.m. after working a 12-hour shift at Florida Hospital DeLand. The ...

While sitting quietly at home, in what is fast becoming the evening of my lifetime, I have the solitude to cherish the many profound boyhood hours I spent at the now-closed Abbey of the Holy Trinity ...