Church bell causes tensions in Germany

28-11-2022

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A church bell causes political tensions within the German Evangelical Churches (EKD). Should the bell be returned to its owners from before the Second World War or not?

Church bells. Photo Wikimedia Commons, Dietmar Rabich

Ringing church bells scare villagers at night

Inhabitants of the Swedish place Torsås woke up last week in the middle of the night. The church bells of the town rang for two hours straight.

The Sant’Ulderico church in Dolina. Photo Wikimedia Commons

Turmoil in small Italian town after church bells being silenced

Eight MPs from Slovenia have gone to the European Commission after the church bells in the Italian border village of Dolina were banned from ringing. The bells rang so often that some residents had asked for them to be moderated.

One of the church bells of “Santa Maria a Coverciano”. Screenshot from YouTube

Italian priest fined for ringing the bell too often

A priest in the Italian city of Florence has been fined for ringing the church bells too often. The bells sometimes chimed 200 times a day, residents say.

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