Churches in Europe are converted to nightclubs and Hotels as attendance falls to low levels
MECHELEN, Belgium – The worship centers where generations of Belgian Believers worship God and confess their sins have been closed down and converted into hotels, nightclubs, and so on.
Across Europe, the continent that fostered Christianity for the majority of the past two millennia has had her churches, convents and worship centers empty and becoming more and more abandoned.
“That is painful, I will not hide it. On the other hand, there is no return to the past possible”, the bishop of Antwerp, Mgr. Johan Bonny told the Associated Press.
St. Anthony of Padua Church in Brussels is one of the many churches that has been deactivated due to lack of faithful attending mass. It was transformed into a wall climbing club.
Habitually giving excuses that the diocese cannot afford to maintain an empty churches, the religious authorities are making routine decisions to hand them over to the cities or to sell them to private business in order to keep them alive.