Posted: Apr 24, 2012 9:23 am
Invictus_88 wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:Well here there are plenty of empty churches and mosques which are on the demolishing list. You cant do much with them.
The ones that are still operating rely on other activities. The only catholic church rebuilt part of the building complex into a conference centre. This is a very common practice.
The catholic church only does services in English. There is a large Philippino/Haitian group living here.
The anglican church of The Hague is on its last legs and it has put out an appeal around the ex-pats for money.
Catholic Church says the Mass in the UK in English, Latin, Polish, and Tagalog as well as others no doubt. Why would the Catholic Church say the Mass in Holland only in English?
In the Hague there are few catholics that go to church (<3%).
Being a multicultural society and also having a large area of reasonably well off families, there are a great many Pilipino's and Haitians in service here or working in the hospitals. All them to man are catholic. The only catholic operating church here decided to hold one of the masses in English. Well it was so well attended and the Dutch one not. That it was decided to have just the one English mass. Along with building a conference centre (small one) has kept the church open.