By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Sept 5, 2024: September 5 is a special day for the world: it is the Feast Day of Mother Teresa, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. She died on this day in 1997. The Catholic Church throughout the world venerates her as a saint –Continue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Sept 4, 2023: Teachers, and very sadly so, are today in the news, for all the wrong reasons! In Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, a school teacher made the students of her class come up and slap a Muslim child in the classroom. She was caught on cameraContinue Reading
By Celine Paramundayil Bhopal, June 23, 2022: That evening, our novice mistress was going out for a golden jubilee celebration and said, “Celine, can you show a motivational film to our novices?” I agreed, and reading from a list of the films we had, asked them which they wanted. TheyContinue Reading
By Francis Sunil Rosario Kolkata, April 3, 2022: Sister Mary Joseph, the newly elected superior general of the Missionaries of Charity, says her global congregation will continue its original mission of serving the poorest of the poor, despite numerous hurdles. She also asserts that religious conversion is not their agendaContinue Reading
By Francis Sunil Rosario Kolkata, March 19, 2022: The charism of the Missionaries of Charity is unique. Down the line right from Mother Teresa, now St. Teresa of Kolkata, and her successors late Sisters Nirmala Joshi and Mary Prema have contributed immensely to the crucified Christ in suffering humanity duringContinue Reading
By Francis Sunil Rosario Kolkata, March 15, 2022: Sister Mary Joseph says she had spent a sleepless and anxious night before accepting to be the new leader of the Missionaries of Charity, the world renowned Catholic religious congregation founded by Saint Mother Teresa of Kolkata The election of the thirdContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Jan 5, 2022: The year 2022 dawned bleakly. Not just because of the resurgent Covid, but because of the events of January 3. On that sad day Mother Teresa’s “Missionaries of Charity’ (MC) sisters handed over their Nirmala Shishu Bhawan, Kanpur, to the Indian Army. Will ShishuContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna: A minister in Bihar, eastern India, on September 5 urged students to return to society what they have received and become responsible citizens in future. “You should be ready to give it back to society. By giving back, you are creating opportunities to meet peopleContinue Reading
New Delhi: The United Nations Postal administration has decided to issue a commemorative stamp honoring Saint Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa was born in 1910 and died in 1997. According to the UN Postal Administration, the $1.80 Mother Teresa’s stamp is intended to be used from the U.N. post office atContinue Reading
By C M Paul Darjeeling: Living in Darjeeling, a place connected to Mother Teresa’s ‘call within the call,’ I find the latest book ‘Mother Teresa, The Saint and Her Nation’ a fascinating reading as it offers hitherto unknown information about the saint. In the present work Gëzim Alpion probably theContinue Reading
