By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, Oct 7, 2025: The Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata stood bathed in reverence and quiet joy on October 7 as the congregation founded by Saint Teresa of Calcutta celebrated its 75th Foundation Day. At the platinum jubilee, the international congregation recommittedContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi Mumbai, Sept 22, 2025: The Indian Christian Women’s Movement has criticized The Examiner, one of the oldest Catholic weeklies in the country, for featuring “white supremacist” Charlie Kirk alongside Mother Teresa and late Jesuit tribal activist Father Stan Swamy. “The Examiner’s use of Charlie Kirk betrays coreContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, April 10, 2025: The Missionaries of Charities nuns is closing a home for the destitute that Mother Teresa started in Goa, western India. The reason for closing the 49-year-old center in Panaji, the state capital, is the bad shape of the building that houses it. “ThisContinue Reading
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
