WATCH: National Cathedral rings bells in memory of 600k ... 600,000 Americans lost to the disease by tolling its mourning bell 600 times - once for every 1,000 dead on Thursday afternoon.

A project to cast a new bell for an atomic-bombed cathedral in the Japanese city of Nagasaki is underway in the US Midwest state of Missouri. The plan is being funded by Catholics in the US.

a religious vessel central to the cathedral’s altar. Crafted by the renowned Cornille Havard foundry, in Villedieu-les-Poêles, Normandy, the bells embody France’s distinguished bell-making ...