Mumbai: Not everyone gets two invites to the canonization ceremony of Mother Teresa. But then, not everyone is Usha Uthup. Uthup has been a long-time supporter of Missionaries of Charity. She attended Mother’s beatification ceremony at the Vatican in 2003. At Mother’s canonization on September 4, Uthup will be aContinue Reading
Jesuit provincial of Darjeeling recalls his chance meeting with Mother TeresaContinue Reading
An exhibition showcasing the life and works of Mother Teresa will be organised at the UN’s headquarters in September in celebration of the Nobel Laureate being declared a Saint.Continue Reading
Kolkata: A slight stoop, hands folded, those merciful eyes and the unmistakable veil across her wrinkled forehead. Kolkata’s most famous icon has perhaps never been sculpted so brilliantly so far. The 5 ft 2 inch-bronze statue of Mother Teresa to be inaugurated at the Bishop’s House on Park Street onContinue Reading
Children from three schools are participating in the celebrationsContinue Reading
Kolkata: To make Mother Teresa’s canonization special, India Post will release a silk postal cover – a first of its kind – on September 1, just three days ahead of the big event. “As far as I know, such a silk postal cover has never been released in India. WhenContinue Reading
The polio-afflicted commercial pilot runs a training school for disabled pilots in LondonContinue Reading
Sister Prema, head of the Missionaries of Charity, and Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, the postulator in Rome, liked the logoContinue Reading
Rome: In the chapel of the first house Blessed Teresa of Calcutta established in Rome, Father Brian Kolodiejchuk of the Missionaries of Charity talks about her life, mixing the concrete and even mundane with the spiritual and even mystical. “She was very human – she loved chocolate, she loved iceContinue Reading
From book launches to a film festival, the city will celebrate it for the next three monthsContinue Reading
