Rikko Voorberg

Voorberg was born into a minister's family, the second child of Paul Voorberg, minister in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Liberated).

[3] He moved to Amsterdam and worked for a fledgling Protestant church, and in 2012 started an experimental religious theater group, StroomWest.

[4] Since 2013 he is in charge of the so-called "PopUp church", and writes columns for nrc.next and Nederlands Dagblad, and helped found the Vluchtkerk, a church organization in Amsterdam that supports refugees whose applications have been denied.

[3] That same year he hosted the EO-Jongerendag, an annual gathering of Christian youth organized by the Evangelische Omroep.

He made headlines [citation needed] in 2014 when he started a Facebook group (called "Benno L., welcome on our street") which argued for a "humane treatment" of a convicted child sex offender, which earned him both praise and threats.