Amsterdam's Catholic churches

This year likely will be memorized as the year that Amsterdam lost half of its Roman Catholic churches.

Amsterdam's oldest Catholic church, St. Mary's, began along the South Side of the city. Conforming to a history of St. Mary's written by Jacqueline Daly Murphy, a priest from Schenectady came to say Mass for Irish Catholics working on the Erie Canal east of Amsterdam in 1839.

In 1849, Catholics purchased the earlier St. Ann's Episcopal Church onward the South Side of the river from Amsterdam, a composition of differences then called Port Jackson. The new church was named St. Mary's moreover Reverend Daniel Cull was pastor. In 1869, St. Mary's moved across the river to its make public location forward East Main Street where a new church was built.

While St. Mary's primarily served the Irish, in 1883 it was reported that confessions were beingness heard there in Italian, Spanish, Latin, French, Hungarian along with German.

Amsterdam: Study of Salafi-Jihadis

The publication "Salafi-Jiahdis in Amsterdam' was presented today at the new year's reception of Forum, Institute for multicultural development. Researchers followed twelve radicalizing Moroccan Muslim youth because 'in order to prevent extreme action is it important to know what such youth think and why they think what they think."

Mohammed B., the murder of Theo van Gogh, was a Salafi-Jihadi. The Hofstad group relied on this thinking: any means is permissible, even violence, in striving for Islamization. Society has every reason to worry about youth who go towards radicalization and who are seen as 'irrational lunatics'.

The latter is not correct, say the researchers, led by political scientist Jean Tillie of the University of Amsterdam. "Our study shows that those youth don't act out of irrational, inexplicable religious urges, but out of needs which have to do with personal and social circumstances."

In the past Tillie calculated that 2% of Amsterdam Muslims - about 1,400 youth - are susceptible for radicalization.