Netherlands

Lent

Sustainable consumption, integral ecology, agriculture for the future… social justice campaigns to inspire you this Lent

A church and green space in the Netherlands

Dutch parishes go green to counter Catholic demographic decline

A closed church (stock)

Dutch Catholic weekly warns faithful of “big wave of church closures to come”

Gay Dutch priest Pierre Valkering

Openly gay Amsterdam priest wins Vatican appeal against dismissal

Dutch cardinal Willem Eijk

Church goes to war over assisted suicide: ultraconservative Dutch cardinal contradicts Vatican official

Buddhist monks (stock)

Dutch villagers find new ways to practise faith and traditions… just now with Buddhists

Euthanasia

91% of Dutch Catholics in favour of euthanasia

The 'King's Field' natural cemetery in Koningsoord, Netherlands

Dutch nuns turn World War II battlefield into “natural burials” cemetery

Empty pews in the Netherlands

Dutch Church on death’s door

Interior of a repurposed church in Breda, Netherlands

Novena investigates: The brutal secularisation of the Netherlands

Gay Dutch priest Pierre Valkering

Dutch diocese backs out gay priest, keeps him in ministry

Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam

Dutch Churches call on Government to curb “unacceptable” antisemitism

Dutch populist politician Thierry Baudet

Frustration with system drives Dutch Catholics to populism