Sight-Seeing: The Bible suggests even God gets lonely. Why don’t religious people talk more about it
There is much to be learned from loneliness: prophecy, solidarity, fun, freedom – even creativity, writes DWIGHT LEE WOLTER in an article first published on Religion News Service…
Saints of Past Ages: Mother Teresa – the first great saint of the television era
In a Saints of Past Ages special, biographer JON M SWEENEY, in an article adapted from his new biography ‘Teresa of Calcutta: Dark Night, Active Love’, says Mother Teresa’s story is so well known that we don’t really know her…
A saint for our time: New documentary on Mother Teresa premieres at the Vatican
CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ, of Religion News Service, reports on a new documentary showcasing the life of the saint, flawed and relentless, ahead of the 25th anniversary of her death…
India restores foreign fund permit for Mother Teresa charity
New Delhi, IndiaAP India’s government has allowed Mother Teresa’s charity to receive foreign funds, weeks after blocking it saying the Catholic organization did not meet conditions under local laws, a lawmaker said Saturday. Derek O’Brien, a lawmaker from the opposition Trinamool Congress party, tweeted that Missionaries of Charity was back on the list of approved […]
India refuses to renew foreign funding OK to charity; religious protests
New Delhi, IndiaReuters The Indian Government on Monday “refused” to renew a permission that is vital for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity to be able to secure foreign funds, cutting off a key source the charity has depended on to run its programs for the impoverished. Nobel-laureate Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun who died […]
Baby-selling scandal used to malign Missionaries of Charity, says Chief Minister of Mother Teresa’s home state
With staffWorld Watch Monitor The Indian Government has ordered all the country’s states to inspect all the childcare homes run by Missionaries of Charity nuns, the order founded by Mother Teresa. But a senior Indian politician has accused Hindu nationalists of exploiting the news that four babies have been sold by one of the order’s homes, to “malign the name” of […]
Mother Teresa charity home “sold babies” in India – claims
Thomson Reuters Foundation Indian authorities said on Thursday they have sealed a home run by Mother Teresa’s religious order and charged a nun and one other person with baby trafficking. The home in eastern India’s Jharkhand state is run by Missionaries of Charity, the order set up by Mother Teresa in India, and provides shelter […]
First cathedral for Mother Teresa is consecrated in Kosovo
RNS View of the Mother Teresa Cathedral in downtown Pristina, the tallest building in Kosovo, also known as the Sanctuary of Mother Teresa. PICTURE: Valerie Plesch Twenty years after the death of St Teresa of Calcutta, thousands of Christians and Muslims came together to celebrate the consecration, in her name, of this nation’s first Roman Catholic […]
Mother Teresa declared a Roman Catholic saint at Vatican ceremony
Mother Teresa has been made a Roman Catholic saint in a ceremony in Vatican City on Sunday. Thousands turned out for the canonisation Mass led by Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square, who officially declared Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the “saint of the gutters”, to be enrolled among the church’s saints. Applause broke […]