NETHERLANDS
Expatica
A Dutch Catholic priest who planned to ‘name and shame’ people leaving the church by pinning their photos up in public has decided not to go ahead.
Harm Schilder had claimed the move would enable other parishioners to pray for people who want to deregister as Catholics but now says he ‘sees the risky side’ of his much-criticised plan.
‘There is now no point in putting the plan into action,’ Schilder says on his weblog. Instead, he and volunteers will look at other ways to ‘keep them with the church’.
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