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Shillong: A Renewed Call to Evangelization and Synodality at the Symposium

October 13, 2024 Team ICM News

Fr. Kampan Chinnam –  Shillong: On the final day of the three-day symposium held on October 9, 2024, church leaders from across the northeast region

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How 40 Days of Lent Can Make Me a Better Leader

February 15, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Tom Thomas – Each year Lent rolls around, we get an opportunity to retreat a bit from the world, enter the state of solitude

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Giving Up for Advent

November 30, 2023 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Tom Thomas. “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”- Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol “It is

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Embracing Silence Over Gossip in an Age of Social Media

October 8, 2023 Team ICM Tech / Media

By Lavoisier Fernandes – A friend recently introduced me to an intriguing image that sparked my curiosity and led me on a path of discovery.

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The Church and its “Rome Call for AI Ethics”

September 5, 2023 Team ICM Tech / Media

By Lavoisier Fernandes – In the late 1960s, “artificial birth control” dominated the headlines. It was so much a moral and ethical impasse that it

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N-E India: Youth Encouraged to Use Social Media for Positive Impact

March 27, 2023 Team ICM News

Alva Khyriem – Aizawl: “It takes courage to go against the grain and stand up for what you believe in. The young have a unique

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Social Media: Paradox of Privacy

June 7, 2022 Team ICM Tech / Media

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – Recent battlelines drawn between social media giants and the Indian government have sharply brought into focus freedom of speech and

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Is ‘Intolerance’ Invading Our Spaces?

January 14, 2022 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr J. Pulinthanath, SDB – We have just bid farewell to a year and stepped in to a new one. Each passing year reminds

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The Social Dilemma

September 27, 2020 Team ICM Art / Book / Film, Tech / Media

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – “I put a spell on you… Because you’re mine. And I don’t care if you don’t want me… I’m yours

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Fake News: It Can’t Be the First of April Every Day!

April 15, 2020 Team ICM Tech / Media

By Fr. Nigel Barrett – “Oh my gosh! Is this really true?” “This is unbelievable!” “Did he (or she) really say this?” Fake News and

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Getting Off the Grid This Lent

March 2, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – Indian spirituality has only one focus: we are an inward turned people. Indian Hinduism and Indian forms of Roman Catholicism both

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CBCI’s Social Communication Office Aims to Reinvent, Reconnect & Reach Out

March 16, 2019 Team ICM News

By Fr Nigel Barrett – The meeting of regional chairman bishops, secretaries of regional commissions and directors of diocesan communications offices under the aegis of

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WhatsApp-ening to You?

May 16, 2018 Team ICM Tech / Media

By Fr Francis Gonsalves – “Are you on WhatsApp”? is an oft-heard query, today. Almost everyone—including myself, a ‘technologically challenged netizen’—dabbles in WhatsApp, though my

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Of Broken Phones and Unknown Futures

April 26, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Susanna D – A couple of days ago I broke my phone. Again. It just slipped out of my hand… Okay, let’s be honest,

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Rome Seminar: A Masterclass for Church Communicators

April 23, 2018 Team ICM News, Tech / Media

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – A deeply engaging seminar for Church Communication professionals has just concluded in Rome at the Pontifical University of the Holy

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