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Love Marriage or Love Jihad?

February 28, 2025 Team ICM Features

# chhotebhai The term “Love Jihad” is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Jihad is derived from the Arabic word Jahada that literally means accomplishing

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Jemimah – The Fearless

December 12, 2024 Team ICM Features

# chhotebhai – Have I spelt Jeremiah wrongly? No. This is not about an ancient prophet but about a modern young social influencer—Jemimah Rodrigues, the

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My Experiments with Tyagarchana

November 14, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Acharyasri Sachidananda Bharathi – The term ‘Tyagarchana’ is conceived and developed by me to represent the sadhana and ideology of the Kingdom of God

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Going Within Before Going Out – Exaltation of the Cross

September 13, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – Looked at from a purely secular and historical perspective, the Cross would not be considered an object to be exalted

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Courageous Souls: Battling Illness with Grace

July 22, 2024 Team ICM Family, Healthcare

Tom Thomas – “Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though

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Urgently Wanted Today: A Joseph

March 19, 2024 Team ICM Features

Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ – Our world today (particularly, India) is broken and fragmented; divisiveness, hate and violence hold way! The people cry out for

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Jesus: My Valentine!

February 13, 2024 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Jacqueline Kelly – Valentine’s Day is celebrated all over the world on February 14 by enthusiastic lovers. Down the ages, lovers have been celebrating

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World Marriage Day: Never Waste a Good Conflict!

February 11, 2024 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Lorraine & Leon Bent – Continuing from where we left off, let’s examine how we  invariably hurt the one we love. Conflict is an

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Christians and Peace are Like Siamese Twins

December 16, 2023 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Isaac Harold Gomes. Christmas is an annual religious and cultural festival that is observed in almost all countries on 25 December to commemorate the

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Suffering and Tortures of Christ

September 20, 2023 Team ICM Features

By Jacqueline Kelly – Suffering is the greatest problem of human life. We all have sufferings and we all have to suffer. Sometimes, small sorrows,

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Christmas Isn’t a Season, It’s a Feeling…

December 14, 2022 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Larissa D’Souza – It’s the most wonderful time of year, don’t you think? The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the

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What Do We Mean By Divine Providence?

October 16, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Leon Bent- Divine providence is God’s capacity to bring to fruition, His purposes and promises with 100 percent certainty—for humanity, indeed, for the cosmos

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Exaltation of the Cross: A Fire of Love

September 13, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Sr Lini Sheeja MSC – “Oh Sister, Sister, Sister!” The desperate cry from the other end of the phone was loaded with distress. She

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Magnanimous Love of the Sacred Heart

June 23, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Dr. Jeanette Pinto – What a sad chaotic and demoralized world we live in; all we need is God’s overflowing, boundless love and mercy. The

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I Thought Love is Shaped Like a Heart; But Actually, Love is in the Shape of a Cross

April 14, 2022 Team ICM Features

By Sr Lini Sheeja MSC – The cross on which Jesus the Saviour of the world was hung was a cross of love. When the

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