{"id":38419,"date":"2022-06-16T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=38419"},"modified":"2022-06-16T14:34:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:34:53","slug":"thieves-return-church-bell-stolen-30-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/thieves-return-church-bell-stolen-30-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves return church bell stolen 30 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The bell of the Shen Kolli Church (St. Cole) in Rehova disappeared in 1992. Despite numerous searches, the bell was not found and was declared lost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Recently, the church was undergoing restoration in the same village. A few days ago, construction workers spotted something unusual, which turned out to be the bell that was stolen 30 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">At the same time, the men regretting what they did almost 3 decades ago decided to return also another bell, that belonged to Shen Maria (St. Mary) Church in Gostivisht.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/07\/19\/church-in-voskopoja-collapses-due-to-heavy-rains-as-experts-ask-the-government-to-intervene\/\">Church in Voskopoja collapses due to heavy rains as experts ask the government to intervene<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2020\/07\/12\/albanian-orthodox-church-reacts-to-turkey-s-decision-to-turn-hagia-sophia-into-a-mosque\/\">Albanian Orthodox Church reacts to Turkey\u2019s decision to turn \u201cHagia Sophia\u201d into a mosque<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2022\/06\/06\/religious-communities-in-albania-only-30-of-our-property-has-been-returned-to-us\/\">Religious communities in Albania: Only 30% of our property has been returned to us<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bell of the Shen Kolli Church (St. Cole) in Rehova disappeared in 1992. Despite numerous searches, the bell was not found and was declared lost.\u00a0 Recently, the church was undergoing restoration in the same village. A few days ago, construction workers spotted something unusual, which turned out to be the bell that was stolen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":38420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[270,1630,1629,151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thieves return church bell stolen 30 years ago - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/thieves-return-church-bell-stolen-30-years-ago\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thieves return church bell stolen 30 years ago - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The bell of the Shen Kolli Church (St. Cole) in Rehova disappeared in 1992. 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