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no, because if you silence these voices, you will allow the ACLU to stop Christian church bells, including bells that play hymns.

I didn't realize why the bells were important until I went to Africa. Our mass was 8 am so at 7 am they rang to alert people, and then rang again at the start of Mass. People didn't have clocks, and this was to alert them so they could get there on time.

Traditionally, they also ring at daybreak/6am, noon, and dusk/5pm for "the angeles" (a prayer about Christ's incarnation that starts "the angel of the lord declared unto mary)---there is a famous French painting called the Angeles, showing two people in a wheat field praying.

Our problem is that Christians don't stop to pray five times a day....in public.

Why not use the church bells for the Muslims too. Let those church bells ring every hour and the Muslims can look at thier watches to figure out which hours coincide.

soooo simple.

I agree - the ACLU is chomping at the bit on this one - waiting to help get the call to prayer in place, and in the event that fails (or concurrently), eagerly working to stop church bells. So sad.

'The Angelus' is a beautiful painting. It is evocative of beautiful tradition of the Angelus, prayed 3 times daily, reminded by Church bells, and sadly absent in our country.