NAGCR - Sandy Hook Bells observance

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Sandy Hook Bells - Across the nation, church bells will ring 26 times at 9:30 a.m. Friday to mark the the one-week anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

The National Council of Churches said many of its 100,000 congregations plan to participate in the bell-ringing during a minute of silence that Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy called for earlier in the week.

"I'm asking that Friday, Dec. 21, at 9:30 a.m., exactly one week after the horror began to unfold in Newtown, that the entire state observe a moment of silence," Malloy said at a Monday press conference.

"I'd like to ask those houses of worship or other buildings that have the ability to play bells to do so as well — 26 bells for the beautiful children and six wonderful adults who were killed at school that day."