Etiket: churches
Meppel musician Timo de Jong dedicates album to Frisian churches
High above the trees, the towers of beautiful old churches stand out on the horizon in the north. This also applies to the desolate Frisian landscape. Many mounds are crowned…
Fewer church visitors: Protestant Church Assen puts two churches up for sale
The Protestant Church in Assen, like many other churches, is having a hard time. The congregation still has more than 4,000 members, but only three hundred to five hundred believers…
Protestant community in Assen sells two of the three churches. ‘Some people are really sad. It is now a mourning period for them’
The Protestant community in Assen is having financial difficulties and is therefore forced to sell two of the three churches. Sale of the Resurrection Church and De Bron should yield…
The curtain seems to be falling for the churches of Schoonebeek and Steenwijksmoer, other churches are still unclear
To dispose of the Catholic churches in Schoonebeek and Steenwijksmoer in the long term, that is the conclusion after research into the future of the churches. For the houses of…
More than five hundred believers are protesting against the threatened closure of churches
More than five hundred parishioners from West Friesland and the Noordkop went to the Sint Bavo Cathedral in Haarlem today to demonstrate against a threatened mass closure of churches in…
550 concerned Catholics in buses to Haarlem to keep ‘their’ churches open
About 550 concerned Catholics from West Friesland and the Noordkop will travel in buses to Haarlem’s Bavo Cathedral tomorrow to make their voices heard. They are very concerned about the…
Punk rock with computer beeps, honey from the squeeze bottle, packed churches: everything was possible at the Left of the Dial festival this year
She had slept badly, she said, the London singer Sophie Jamieson. Nervous about her concert on Thursday in the Paradijskerk, on the first day of the Left of the Dial…
Churches are becoming less popular for funerals, Brabanders prefer to choose for themselves
Brabanders are increasingly opting for a traditional funeral. Only four percent of Brabanders want to hold the farewell service in a church, mosque or synagogue. This is evident from the…
Monumental vacant churches prove difficult to fill: ‘There are churches in the danger zone’
Due to secularisation, it is an inevitable consequence: empty churches. But what do you do with the cultural heritage? They are considering that question in Bovensmilde today. Heritage association Heemschut,…
Catholic church Emmerschans closes, fate of Klazienaveen and Zwartemeer churches uncertain
There are concerns in more parishes in the region. For example, the Maria Hertogin Parish (with churches in Emmer-Compascuum, Barger-Compascuum, Klazieveen and Zwartemeer). Earlier this year, the provisional conclusion was…