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Amsterdam - The Catholic and Protestant churches are going together on a mission in their own land. They want to stop the dismantling of churches and prevents that Islam becomes the dominant religion in the Netherlands. The churches are afraid that it loses its track of their long-term existence.



'It is not about stealing from sheep’s, but it is in our interest that people comes to the track of Jesus and learning to know his way’, says Wout van Laat of the Dutch Missionary Commission.

‘Christians and Muslims are each other’s concurrent. We are looking for new evangelization and ways to speak about Jesus. Protestants and Catholics, we both have to become missionaries’ says the Utrechtse help bishop Gerard de Korte.


The Christianity and Islam are both missionary religion and therefore each other’s concurrents’. Both are active in recruiting of believers, sometimes to each other’s but mostly under non-believers. Many Muslims have a clear profile. Uncommonly, what you see today is that Catholics and Protestants do without an own identity. They want to play a role again in the social day-to-day life.

The Netherlands gets per January 1st a second professor in Missiology (a term that has never been used before in the Dutch dictionary so I think it is an invented word by them) whom the person is named as Mechteld Jansen. The Protestants Missionary Commission is paying the chair adviser at the Protestants Theological University of Utrecht. Jansen has given the task to focus especially on the Mission in Home Land (Netherlands).



Curious


The churches are developing in own circle missionary activities. The Protestants’ Church in Holland (PKN) wants to make non-believers curious, such as opening the Church on alternative times, keeping social gathering for example in a spiritual café. The influential Catholic preacher Antoine Bodar wants again to regulate a new day closing on radio and television. De Korte says: ‘there are anywhere low virtual of celebrations. You see missionary drive aired back on radio and television like the television channel: KRO, NCRV and especially EO. There are websites, news sites and there is a famous pod cast-priest who is well known till far outside of Holland.’

Europe sets within the Christian belief communities’ worldwide no longer the tone.
The secularization has persevered itself nowhere so far as here. In other continents, Christian churches are growing.

Holland counts roughly 800.000 Christian migrants. Every Sunday they come together. Services are held in around 75 languages in church’s building, garages and schools. It is often the evangelical churches who are widely active. The evangelical churches are the fastest growing in the world. Catholics and Protestants stood hesitant opposite to this concurrent, but eventually this came to an end and contacts were born again.


Taken from the following dutch website translated by myself:

http://www.nieuwsfeit.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4935&Itemid=43