ENI — The Protestant Church in the Netherlands has apologized to Pentecostals for negative attitudes held towards them in the past.
“Just as some people regard Muslims nowadays, enlightenment thinkers held you in contempt and viewed you as backward,” the church's general secretary Bas Plaisier said at celebrations in Amsterdam to mark the centenary of the Dutch Pentecostal movement.
Pentecostalism is a Christian renewal movement dating from the early 20th century, and is now seen as one of the fastest growing Christian movements in the world. The first Pentecostal church in the Netherlands was founded in Amsterdam in 1907.
