Historical lessons for exiled evangelicals

Neil Robbie  |  Comment  |  migration & the Bible
Date posted:  13 May 2026
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Historical lessons for exiled evangelicals

'Emigration of the Huguenots' 1566 by Jan Antoon Neuhuys. Source: picryl

The mass, inward, multinational migration experienced in the UK today is not a novel phenomenon.

Four hundred years ago, the Reformation caused large-scale, trans-European migration. The Calvinist Dutch Republic became an ark for refugees from all over the continent.

The result was that, by the close of the 17th century, a significant percentage of the population of the Dutch Republic was not Dutch.

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