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. Clang-clong! Clang-clong! Clang-CLONG! The swinging bronze bell resonates with each strike of the ...
The congregation of the Fairview Church of the Brethren, 1022 Fairview Road, Williamsburg, will celebrate the church’s 150th anniversary July 19-21. Admission is free. The theme for the celebration is Hebrews 13:8 — “Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.” Homecoming ...
Novena celebrated The second novena of 2024 to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Therese (the Little Flower) offered by the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Loretto will open Thursday, Feb. 22, and end Friday, March 1. The public is invited to attend Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament at 4 p.m. Sundays in the chapel. Petitions may be said to Mother Prioress, Discalced Carmelite Monastery, P.O. Box 57, Loretto, PA 15940. Free lunch offered Providence Presbyterian Church at 2401 Broad Avenue, Altoona, invites the public to come in to our church for a lunch meal from 11:30 a.m. to ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal’s gods and goddess are returning home. An unknown number of sacred statues of Hindu deities were stolen and smuggled abroad in the past. Now dozens are being repatriated to the Himalayan nation, part of a growing global effort to return such items to countries in ...
The Dunnings Creek Friends Meeting (Quakers) will present the Winter 2024 event in their ‘Still Listening’ guest speaker series on local history at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25. Michael Corle of Bedford will present “Changing Narratives: The New Voice of Rural Museums.” Admission is free; light refreshments will be served. Seating is limited. Corle is a designer and educator with 25 years experience in architectural and exhibit design, art and technology education, as well as marketing and brand development. In 2014, he was approached by the Bedford Heritage Trust to ...
ROME — Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he pursues one of the most pressing issues in contemporary times: how to govern artificial intelligence so that it enriches — and doesn’t exploit — people’s lives. Benanti is the Vatican’s ...
