The delegation expressed their concern about the lack of protection for Hindus in Bangladesh and handed over several letters from different organizations to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh requesting the Government to give proper protection to Hindu Temples, Businesses, and Community Centers, impart Justice to the perpetrators of the attacks and help rebuild the Temples destroyed. As well as help the families that lost members in the attacks.
On the 8th of September, the board members of the Hindu Forum of Belgium were received by his excellency Mr. Santosh Jha, ambassador of India to Belgium. Ravinder Singh, president of HFB, started by thanking the ambassador for his prompt action regarding a picture of Ganesh on the label of a bottle of a beverage containing alcohol.
On Wednesday the 16th of September the new Board of Directors of the HFB and the Executive team had their first meeting in the HFB head office at Avenue d’Auderghem 197, Etterbeek-Brussels. Topics such as criteria for new members, benefits of being part of the HFB, benefits of being recognized as a religion, a newsletter,...
Mahaprabhu dasa, General Secretary of the Hindu Forum of Belgium, Malati dasi, Member of the Board of Directors of the HFB and Kanta Odido donor of HFB spent a week in Delhi meeting politicians. They presented a report of the recognition of Hinduism in Belgium and got support from important politicians. They met with Minister...
On Friday 16th February Mahaprabhu dasa, Director of MOSA, met with Prime Minister Modi in his Residency. Mahaprabhu dasa, General Secretary of the Hindu Forum of Belgium together with the author of the book Sushma Bahl and the Co-Curator of the Show presented the PM a copy of Forms of Devotion- The Spiritual in Indian...
On 27 March 2017 members of the board of the HFB met with the new ambassador of Nepal, Mr. Lok Bahadur Thapa.
Martin Gurvich and Malati of the HFB had a meeting with Philippe Markiewicz, leader of the Jewish community in Belgium on 17 June 2016.
For the recent visit to Brussels by the Prime Minister of India, the Honourable Shri Narendra Modi, we negotiated with the Indian Embassy in Belgium to meet with the Prime Minister and air issues faced by Hindus in Belgium and Europe. This we felt appropriate as over 50% of the Hindus in Europe are either...
On Sunday 20 September 2015 HFBe had our General Assembly at Krishna Restaurant in Overijse, Brussels. attendence was down becasue it was a No Car Day in Brussels. Never-the-less a few hardy fellows and ladies did turn out for it. The committe led by Anil Chunivan was confirmed for another year. Membership fee was lowered...
“Some faiths are more equal than others [… ] creating an unequal society and citizen,” Bharti Tailor of the Hindu Forum of Europe said last week at the EU Commission’s High-Level Religious Leaders meeting, including “indigenous people who adopt Hinduism [who are] treated as 2nd class.” 18 senior religious leaders from all over Europe met...
