“About 15 to 17 years back I developed a tumour in my abdomen. I visited many doctors, underwent a long medication process, but nothing helped. We went to doctors at the nearby government hospital, but the treatment was so expensive that we had to mortgage our land,” says Monica BesraContinue Reading
New Delhi: Mother Teresa’s canonisation portends more conversions to Christianity, an issue that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have considered before deciding to send a delegation to the Vatican, the VHP said on Sunday. “The canonisation of Mother Teresa is an alarm bell that now there would be more conversionsContinue Reading
It’s about 1 p.m on a muggy August afternoon in Kolkata, as a young girl from Japan knocks hesitantly at the door of 54A AJC Bose Road in the city’s central quarters. Popularly known as Mother House, the building that was Mother Teresa’s residence from the 1950s till her deathContinue Reading
Mother Teresa devoted her whole life serving the poor and destitute people in IndiaContinue Reading
Veteran journalist recalls his two encounters with Mother TeresaContinue Reading
It was April 1975. The diminutive figure in the white and blue sari was bent and fragile, yet the hand extended was firm and warm. The private meeting on the upper floors of the Philadelphia archdiocese will be forever etched in my memory. Mother Teresa, the beloved Catholic nun fromContinue Reading
Aroup Chatterjee, a London-based physician, published “Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict” in 2003Continue Reading
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will lead a 12-member delegation to represent India at canonisation ceremony of Mother Teresa in Vatican on September 4. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said two delegations led by chief ministers had sought political clearance from the Ministry of External Affairs toContinue Reading
Portland: When Jesuit Father Bob Fabing first met Mother Teresa in 1983 in Calcutta, he had no inkling the meeting would be the start of a decades-long friendship. That friendship culminates next month, when Father Fabing concelebrates Mass with Pope Francis as Blessed Mother Teresa is canonized in early SeptemberContinue Reading
Kolkata: In Kolkata, Mother Teresa has left her touch beyond the walls of the Mother House and the centres she started across the city to nurse the “poorest of the poor”. Her legacy survives not just in the Sisters who took up her vow of serving the needy and theContinue Reading
