netherlands

October 6, 2013

Dutch social care shift hits disabled people’s rights

The Netherlands government plans to slash social care funding and put pressure on frail elderly and other disabled people to do ‘voluntary’ work in return for any help they get, the newspaper Volkskrant reported. Austerity measures have already taken a heavy toll, and are hugely unpopular.
July 5, 2011

Netherlands held responsible for three Srebrenica deaths

The Netherlands was responsible for the deaths of three Bosnian Muslims during the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, a court in The Hague has ruled.
December 21, 2010

Dutch synod tries to heal centuries-old Protestant divisions

A gathering to improve relations between the many Protestant denominations in the Netherlands has taken place on the site of an earlier historic synod.
March 1, 2010

Dutch gay Catholics challenge exclusion from mass

Large numbers of gay Roman Catholics attempted to participate in mass yesterday in the Dutch city of Den Bosch. The attempt followed Church decisions to exclude gay people from the sacrament.
February 15, 2010

Dutch Protestant church declines to discipline rebel pastor

A self-proclaimed atheist can continue to serve as a local pastor of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, and no longer faces disciplinary action because of his controversial position on how to describe God.
March 31, 2009

Netherlands church authorities decline action against rebel pastor

Two regional church authorities in the Netherlands are reported to have decided to take no disciplinary action against a self-proclaimed atheist pastor, Klaas Hendrikse
March 16, 2009

Dutch Protestants find EU Mary quite contrary

A group of hardline Protestants in the Netherlands is objecting to the emblem of the European Union being placed on car registration plates because they say it venerates Mary the mother of Jesus.
March 14, 2008

Indonesian churches criticise far-right anti-Muslim film

The Council of Churches in Indonesia has joined calls for a controversial Dutch film about Islam made by far-right politician Geert Wilders not to be shown. In the past he called for the Qur'an to be banned.
January 19, 2008

Dutch Mennonites back hospitals and health initiatives in Tanzania

Doopsgezind WereldWerk, the Dutch Mennonite Organization for Solidarity and Peace has been sending shipments of medical supplies and hospital equipment on to hospitals in Shirati and Mugumu in Tanzania, pioneering health care institutions.