Reps. Ben Evardone of Eastern Samar, where Balangiga town is located, ... “The bells should be placed in the rightful place where they belong – the bell tower in Balangiga church,” he said.

American occupation troops took the bells from a Catholic church following an attack by machete-wielding Filipino villagers, who killed 48 U.S. soldiers in the town of Balangiga on central Samar ...

After President Rodrigo Duterte, in his State of the Nation Address last July, demanded the United States to return the historic bells of Balangiga church in Eastern Samar, townfolk and church ...

U.S. soldiers carted three of the Balangiga town's church bells off as war trophies during the 1899-1902 Philippine ... the whole of Samar [island] was turned into a 'howling wilderness ...

EASTERN SAMAR, Philippines—Fe Joy Campanero has never seen the bells of Balangiga Church, but is eager to find out how these look like. For after all, her great grandfather was the young boy who ...

The three bells which signaled one of America’s biggest war upsets are finally coming home after 117 years of being on foreign lands.

The passage of more than a century has failed to quell the passion attached to three bronze church bells that were commandeered by American soldiers as trophies of war during a bloody conflict in ...

PRESIDENT Duterte is expected to skip the handover of the Balangiga bells by the United States to the Philippines on Tuesday (December 11), after all, though he will attend the final turnover of ...

The Balangiga bells were handed over to officials this week and will spend a few days on display at a national museum before making their way home to the Church of San Lorenzo de Martir (St ...

During the Philippine-American War, U.S. troops seized three bells as war trophies. Now the U.S. has flown them back.