Dutch Protestant Churches Agree to Merge Fri Dec 12, 1:42 PM ET By TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Three Dutch Protestant churches formally agreed Friday to put aside their ideological differences and merge, the culmination of a process that began more than 40 years ago. The Dutch Reformed Church, the Calvinist Reformist Church, and the small Lutheran Church will unite to form the Protestant Church of the Netherlands, together representing about 2.2 million churchgoers — or about 14 percent of the population. In much of the country, the churches already have been merged in practice for some...