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September 6, 2019

Nuns break tradition with birthday party

In this 2011 file photo, a member of the Missionaries of Charity carries a portrait of St. Teresa of Kolkata in Madrid’s Buen Retiro park.

KOLKATA, India -- Missionaries of Charity nuns in India celebrated the birthday of their order’s founder, St. Teresa of Kolkata, three years after her canonization, breaking a Catholic convention.

Published in International
July 19, 2018

India orders checks of all child care homes run by Missionaries of Charity

Sister Mary Prema Pierick, superior general of the Missionaries of Charity, pictured in a 2016 photo.
BHOPAL, India – A federal ministry in India has ordered inspections of all child care homes run by the Missionaries of Charity, the congregation founded by Mother Teresa, after a lay employee reportedly confessed to selling babies for adoption, reported ucanews.com.
Published in International
July 17, 2018

India's Sr. Prema condemns trafficking, says missionary nuns not involved

An unidentified Indian woman, allegedly an employee at a home run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, is seen in police custody after she was arrested in Jharkhand, India, July 5. Anima Indwar, who worked for the nuns in Jharkhand, was handed over to police in early July after she admitted that procedures had not been followed in transferring children to Jharkhand state's Child Welfare Committee.
NEW DELHI – Facing child trafficking allegations at one of its homes for unmarried mothers in India, the Missionaries of Charity said the order condemns the actions of individuals involved and stressed that these are unrelated to the order.
Published in International
July 13, 2018

Indian officials seek to freeze bank accounts of Missionaries of Charity after child trafficking charges

A member of the Missionaries of Charity tends to a patient in 2016 in Kolkata, India. Indian officials are seeking to freeze bank accounts of the Missionaries of Charity following the July 5 arrest of a nun on child trafficking charges.
BHOPAL, India – Indian officials are seeking to freeze bank accounts of the Missionaries of Charity following the arrest of a nun on child trafficking charges in Jharkhand state.
Published in International
September 19, 2017

Salesian priest recounts harrowing tale of his capture, liberation

Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who was released from captivity Sept. 12, greets journalists as he arrives for a news conference in Rome Sept. 16. Father Uzhunnalil was abducted during an attack on a charity care home in Yemen in March 2016 and imprisoned for 18 months.

ROME – Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil was sitting in a room in an unknown location -- one of several he had been relocated to during his 18-month imprisonment -- when he received some unexpected news.

Published in International
July 11, 2017

Missionaries of Charity copyright Saint Teresa’s blue and white sari

The Missionaries of Charity have patented the white and blue sari designed by Saint Teresa of Calcutta.

CALCUTTA, India – The Missionaries of Charity have patented the white and blue sari designed by Saint Teresa of Calcutta, obtaining a legal copyright recognizing the pattern as the intellectual property of the order.

Published in International
February 18, 2017

Did you know Mother Teresa experienced visions of Jesus?

Mother Teresa had conversations and visions of Jesus before forming Missionaries of Charity.

VATICAN CITY – Even her friend of more than 30 years, Father Sebastian Vazhakala, did not know Mother Teresa had conversations with and visions of Jesus before forming the Missionaries of Charity.

Published in Faith
September 3, 2016

To Mother Teresa, love, caring trumped all

Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, India, presents documents for a new house to a villager in 1994 in Mumbai, formerly Bombay. Mother Teresa will be canonized by Pope Francis Sept. 4 at the Vatican.

CALCUTTA, India – A favourite motto of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta was: “Do small things with great love.”

Published in Faith
August 28, 2016

'Icon of mercy': Missionaries superior describes Blessed Teresa

A poster of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata and Missionaries of Charity are seen in Calcutta, India, Sept. 5, 2007, file photo.

ROME – Blessed Teresa of Calcutta was a woman who truly felt wed to Jesus, and the freedom she experienced in loving him led her to radical poverty, a courageous outreach and an immense love for the poor, said the superior general of the order Mother Teresa founded.

Published in Faith
August 26, 2016

Indians gather to celebrate birthday of Blessed Teresa, soon-to-be-saint

Members of the Missionaries of Charity pray Aug. 26 near the tomb of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta in celebration of her 106th birthday in India. Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, will be canonized at the Vatican Sept. 4.

CALCUTTA, India – They came from all around to celebrate the birthday of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta  the founder of the Missionaries of Charity who will be become a saint Sept. 4.

Published in International
May 18, 2016

Indian couples frustrated as Missionaries of Charity stop adoptions

Anirban Mukherjee and his wife, Sampa, pose May 2 with their 17-month-old son Anirban at Shishu Bhavan, the Missionaries of Charity children's home in Kolkata, India. The parents adopted Anirban from the home in April 2015 and call him "the gift from the saint of Kolkata, Mother Teresa."

CALCUTTA, India – Seventeen-month-old Anirban Mukherjee playfully touches his mother's face with his fingers at Shishu Bhavan, the Missionaries of Charity children's home.

Published in International
March 28, 2016

Bishop says he believes Salesian priest kidnapped in Yemen is still alive

The head of the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia and Indian priests believe that a priest kidnapped by the Islamic State is still alive.

VATICAN CITY - The bishop who leads the apostolic vicariate that includes Yemen said he has "strong indications" that Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil "is still alive in the hands of his kidnappers."

Published in International
March 7, 2016

Pope Francis calls murdered nuns in Yemen ‘today’s martyrs’

Yemeni pro-government fighters guard outside a Missionaries of Charity elderly home March 4 after unidentified gunmen targeted the home in Aden, Yemen. Four Missionaries of Charity and 10 to 12 other people were killed in the attack.

Pope Francis said four nuns executed by gunmen in Yemen at a home where they cared for elderly and disabled residents are “today’s martyrs.”

Published in Vatican
March 4, 2016

Four Missionaries of Charity among 16 slain in Yemen by gunmen

Members of the Missionaries of Charity appear in this picture from 2010. Four Missionaries of Charity nuns were among the 16 slain by gunmen who attacked a Church-run retirement home in Yemen.

ROME - Four nuns from the order founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta are reportedly among 16 killed by gunmen who attacked a Church-run retirement home in Yemen, the latest attack on Christians in the increasingly lawless country.

Published in International
October 22, 2015

Sign of the times

A woman smiles as she is greeted by Sister Marica of the Missionaries of Charity at a home for the elderly in the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, July 4.

For several decades a cornerstone of the work undertaken by the religious order founded in India by Mother Teresa was finding safe homes for orphaned children. Thousands of destitute and abandoned children have met loving parents through adoptions arranged by the Missionaries of Charity.

Published in Editorial
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