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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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Kolkata: There’s Joy in Giving, Pope Francis’ Message for World Day of Sick

January 10, 2019 Team ICM Healthcare, News

By Verghese V Joseph – This year, India’s eastern city Kolkata will play host to Catholic Church’s 27th World Day of the Sick during February

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Dignitaries Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, His Eminence Oswald Cardinal Gracious besides others light the lamp.

Pay Attention to the Needs of Humanity, Apostolic Nuncio Urges Church

January 9, 2019 Team ICM News

Chennai: Inaugurating the 31st Plenary Assembly of the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) of the Latin Church, in Chennai on Wednesday, Archbishop

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Former Apostolic Nuncio to India Msgr Zur Passes Away

January 9, 2019 Team ICM News

Monsignor Georgio Zur, titular Archbishop of Sesta, Apostolic Nuncio, who had served the church in India and Nepal first as Secretary of the Apostolic Nunciature

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Karnataka: Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco Hold Fest for Street Children

January 8, 2019 Team ICM News

By Louis Rodrigues – Belagavi: Truly bringing the message of Jesus Christ to be at the service of the humble, meek and the weak in

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(From left) The Archbishop of Bengaluru, Most Rev Peter Machado, with the new PRO Mr J A Kanthraj and Pontifical Mission Organisation national director and PRO for the Church in Karnataka Fr Faustine Lobo.

In a First of Sorts, B’lore Archdiocese Appoints Lay Person as PRO

January 7, 2019 Team ICM News

(From left) Archbishop of Bengaluru, Most Rev Peter Machado with the new PRO Mr J A Kanthraj and Pontifical Mission Organisation national director and PRO

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Fr Antony Christy’s Homily for Youth: God Made Man

January 5, 2019 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB – January 6, 2019: Solemnity of Epiphany The Word became flesh and came to dwell among us; today the world

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Fr Francis Gonsalves’ Homily: Seek The Star and Go Forth!

January 5, 2019 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Francis Gonsalves, SJ – The Epiphany of The Lord – January 6, 2019 Readings: Is 60:1-6; Eph 3:2-3a,5-6; Mt 2:1-12 “When they saw

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Fr Eugene Lobo’s Homily: Epiphany of Our Lord

January 5, 2019 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ – Isaiah 60:1-6; Ephesians 3:2-3a.5-6; Matthew 2:1-12 Today we celebrate the feast of the Epiphany of our Lord. From the

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Epiphany, World Feast of the Catholic Church

January 5, 2019 Team ICM News

By Leon Bent – “In his goodness and wisdom God chose to reveal Himself and to make known to us the hidden purpose of his

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Enroll for Dalit Christian Artists Fest, Workshop Begins Jan 18

January 4, 2019 Team ICM News

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Office for SC/BC is organising a Dalit Christian Artists workshop at ISI Bangalore from 18th to 20th January

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Tribute: Fr Samuel Rayan, A Doyen of Asian Liberation Theology

January 4, 2019 Team ICM News

Not many may be aware that Fr Samuel Rayan, considered a giant of Asian Liberation Theology, had actually joined the then Goa Mission before the

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CCBI’s 31st Plenary Assembly in Chennai Begins From Jan 7

January 2, 2019 Team ICM News

By Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru: The 31st Plenary Assembly of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) is scheduled to be held from

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Fr Antony Christy’s Homily for Youth: 3 Messages To Begin the Year With!

December 31, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB – Let us begin the new year 2019 with grateful hearts. Here are 3 messages we can start the year

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Fr Antony Christy’s Homily for Youth: What Makes Your Family Holy?

December 29, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB- The Feast today presents to us the model of the Holy Family… especially at a time when the Church, led

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Mortal Remains of First Native Bishop of Northeast India Laid to Rest

December 29, 2018 Team ICM News

Tezpur, 29 December, 2018: The Mortal Remains of Bishop Emeritus Robert Kerketta, the first native Catholic Bishop of Northeast India, was laid to rest at

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