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Ausgabe:

Juli/August/2023

Spalte:

665-684

Kategorie:

Aufsätze
Ökumenik, Konfessionskunde

Autor/Hrsg.:

Henk de Roest/Marten van der Meulen/Jonna van den Berge-Bakker

Titel/Untertitel:

Country Report
Mapping the Protestant Ecclesial Landscape in the Netherlands

In the years 2020–2022, Dutch newspapers, nation-wide and regional, reported repeatedly about church closures that caused resistance among churchgoers, parish members and also among villagers.1 Emotions and debates accompanied these church closures and several members indicated that they considered leaving the church. Since some decades, church closures, Protestant and Roman Catholic, have become a common phenomenon in the Dutch ecclesial landscape. Every year, there are fewer churchgoers in the pews, the number of church members is declining, and those who still belong to a church are getting older. In addition, the time for volunteering to make activities happen decreased. Congregations have become dependent upon the effort of a few stalwarts. For some churches a lack of ...


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