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  • Bengaluru: Peace Rally Calls on Karnataka to Deliver on Minority-Rights Promises

    Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru: Archbishop Dr. Peter Machado, joined by Muslim religious leaders and representatives of Dalit, farmers’, human-rights

  • From Poland to India: Can a Catholic AI Model Serve the Church Wisely?

    Verghese V Joseph – Synderesis, an independent Polish AI platform, has built a model trained to reason in line with

  • Huts, Not Churches; Persecution of the Church in Arunachal Pradesh

    In the 1970s, Christians in Arunachal Pradesh watched their churches burn while officials insisted nothing had happened. As a 1978

  • Medically Unexplained: A Cardiologist’s Case for Miracles Still Happening

    By Verghese V Joseph – In an age of stents, ventilators, artificial valves and intensive-care algorithms, the word “miracle” is

  • More of Amalor

    # chhotebhai – Oliver Twist, a character in Charles Dickens’ novel of 1838, by the same name, made an impassioned

  • Death: The Art of Recreating Life

    Every year, on 2 November, the Catholic Church remembers the faithful departed through the celebration of All Souls’ Day. Although

  • Holy Mass for the Dead: The Church’s Tradition of Prayer and the New Canonical Norms

    Introduction: Remembering Our Departed Loved Ones November is traditionally a month dedicated to remembering our departed loved ones. During this

  • Today When The Saints Go Marching In…!

    By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB – Solemnity of All Saints: November 1, 2026 Revelation 7: 2-4,9-14; 1 John 3:1-3; Matthew

  • Holiness Is Becoming Fully Human, Fully Alive

    The Statue Problem  Most of us picture saints as plaster figures: eyes lifted, hands folded, faces calm in a way

  • Empower Parish Councils, Transparency, Women’s Ordination, Says Forum

    (A corollary to “Synodality is not an Optional Extra”) # chhotebhai – The Indian Catholic Forum (ICF) previously gave a

  • Pope Leo XIV Meets Jesus Youth in Historic First Audience, Urges Young People to Discover Christ’s Love

     Verghese V Joseph – Vatican City, October 25, 2026 — Pope Leo XIV held a historic first audience with the

  • Behind Bars, a Call to Hope: Prison Ministry India Gathers in Varanasi

    Verghese V Joseph – Prison Ministry India (PMI) will bring together Church leaders, prison chaplains, volunteers, rehabilitation workers and correctional

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Live According to the Plan of God

February 19, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Jijo Philip, CSC – Readings: Jas 2:1-9; Mk 8:27-33 The readings of the day present to us the reality or two different aspects of

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Lent in Goa: Walking Pilgrimage to Attract 35,000 People This Year

February 19, 2020 Team ICM News

Courtesy :The Goan – Old Goa: Around 35,000 people expected to participate in the annual walking pilgrimage from five different locations to Sancoale, organised by

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Churches in India to Use New English Lectionary From Palm Sunday

February 19, 2020 Team ICM News

By Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru: The Church in India will begin to officially use the New English Lectionary, prepared according to the Indian Liturgical

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Old Guard at CBCI Re-Elected; Archbishop Felix Machado Is New Secy Gen

February 18, 2020 Team ICM News

Bengaluru: The participants at the 34th Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) Plenary Assembly elected new office-bearers for next term. The present CBCI President, His

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Bengaluru: Inclusion Awareness Day Celebrated at St. Patrick’s Church

February 18, 2020 Team ICM News

Bengaluru: As part of the endeavors of the Bangalore Archdiocesan Commission for the differently-abled to promote and facilitate their participation in the Church as well

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Suicide and The Teen

February 18, 2020 Team ICM Family, Healthcare

By Marianne Furtado de Nazareth – The shock was palpable across the class. One of the students had taken his life – to put it

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Allow God to Makes Us Anew

February 18, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Friny Peter Ruwnglal, CSC _ Readings: Jas 1: 19-27; Mk 8: 22-26 We live in the world where people practice different religions. Everyone thinks

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Church Urges Faithful to Promote Gospel Values

February 17, 2020 Team ICM News

Bangalore: Inaugurating the 32 Plenary Assembly of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) of the Latin Church, in Bangalore on Sunday, His Excellency

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Kandhamal Victims: Faith Must Lead to Action

February 17, 2020 Team ICM News

By Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru: The seven innocent Christian victims of Kandhamal jungles of eastern Indian state of Odisha, who are out on bail

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Become the Yeast of Goodness

February 17, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Nibin K Cyriac, CSC – Readings: Jas 1: 12-18; Mk 8: 14-21 Jesus lived a normal human life. He went through the feelings of

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CCBI Releases New Lectionary

February 16, 2020 Team ICM News

Bengaluru: The Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, His Excellency Giambattista Diquattro, along with His Eminence Oswald Cardinal Gracias, resident of the Catholic Bishops Conference

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The Love-Life of God Inside a Couple

February 16, 2020 Team ICM Family

By Lorraine & Leon Bent – Catholic Marriage is a fountainhead of showers of blessings over a lifetime. It has four aspects: Sacrament, Covenant, Ministry

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Practice What We Believe and Profess

February 16, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Akhsi Wary, CSC – Readings: Jas 1:1-11; Mk 8:11-13 Today we see in the first reading how St. James beautifully gives advice to the

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Homily for Youth: Law – Our Choice!!!

February 15, 2020 Team ICM Youth

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB – February 16, 2020: 6th Sunday in Ordinary time Ecclesiasticus 15:16-21; 1 Corinthians 2:6-10; Matthew 5: 17-37 Choice is the

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Choose to Remain With God

February 15, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Naresh Namindla, CSC – Readings: Sir 15:15-20; 1Cor 2:6-10; Mt 5:17-37 Today’s first reading clearly mentions and stresses on our own freedom in choosing

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