ICE Develops Relationships with European Union Institutions and Faith Communities in Brussels | ISKCON News

The ISKCON Communications Europe Executive Committee (ICE EC) members met for the second time this 12 months in Brussels to fulfill representatives of European Union Institutions and European religion communities. The conferences aimed to determine contacts, develop belief and cooperation, and particularly arrange an interfaith convention on Religion and the Environment on the European Parliament within the autumn of 2023. 

The ICE EC members are Mahaprabhu Dasa from Belgium because the chair, Hrishikesha Dasa from Latvia, Kamala Priya Devi Dasi from Sweden, and Parabhakti Dasa from Italy. 

Their first assembly in Brussels was in January 2023, when the ICE EC met with the Director of the European Jewish Centre and a consultant of the Jesus Christ Church of Latter-day Saints. At the current second assembly in March, they met with an knowledgeable from the European Catholic Church Advocacy Body referred to as COMECE (composed of the Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of all Member States of the European Union) and a Muslim group referred to as EDARA. All confirmed nice curiosity in cooperating or changing into co-organizer of the long run convention. 

The ICE EC additionally met with Mr. Oliver Schuster, the advisor to the First Vice-President of the European Parliament, Mr. Othmar Karas. Mr. Karas is liable for implementing Article 17 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). Article 17 states that the EU establishments should have interaction in a daily structured and clear dialogue with representatives of church buildings and non secular organizations or non-confessional philosophical organizations. Mr. Schuster was open to our thought and can carry it to Mr. Karas’s consideration.