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Homeless people gather beside a portrait of Saint Teresa, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity, to collect free food outside the order's headquarters in Kolkata, India, in August.

India blocks foreign funding for Mother Teresa's charity

1:11pm December 28, 2021

by Lauren Frayer

The Indian government says it has refused to renew a permit that allows the Missionaries of Charity to use foreign funds to operate orphanages and hospices across the country.

Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, walk in annual Corpus Christi procession organized on the Feast of Christ the King in Kolkata, India, in 2016.

Late Mother Teresa's Order Investigated For Child Trafficking In India

2:56pm July 17, 2018

by Scott Neuman

A nun and a worker at a Missionaries of Charity shelter were arrested last week for allegedly selling four infants. India has mandated the investigation of all such facilities run by the order.

Gautam Lewis, now 39, poses with some of the photographs he has taken that trace the life and work of Mother Teresa, who took him in when he was 3. The images are part of an exhibition Lewis has staged in Kolkata as an homage to the woman he calls his "se

Mother Teresa Made Him Believe He Could Fly — And He Did

5:03pm September 04, 2016

by Julie McCarthy

The child, who had contracted polio, was taken in by Mother Teresa when he was 3. What has happened since sounds like a fairy tale.

Tens of thousands attend the Holy Mass and canonization of Mother Teresa of Kolkata, on Saint Peter Square in the Vatican, on Sunday.

Mother Teresa Becomes A Saint As Pope Francis Performs Canonization Ceremony

8:29am September 04, 2016

by Emma Bowman

She's long been considered a model of selflessness by many, for a lifetime of service to the world's most impoverished. Sunday's canonization marks a highlight for the pope's Jubilee Year of Mercy.

While Kolkata still grapples with poverty and economic uncertainty, it is also one of India's more affordable and safer cities. It's embarking on ambitious infrastructure projects.

Kolkata Isn't Just The City Of Mother Teresa

6:23pm September 01, 2016

by Sandip Roy

She truly embraced the suffering that was often ignored. But that's not all there is to Kolkata.

How The Catholic Church Documented Mother Teresa's 2 Miracles

12:11pm August 31, 2016

by Tom Gjelten

A cancer patient and a coma victim credit her for their recovery. "You have to accept that there are things that science cannot explain," says an atheist physician who's investigated miracle stories.

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Mother Teresa will be canonized this fall, the Vatican has announced. Here, a nun of the Missionaries of Charity decorates a picture of Mother Teresa before a special prayer service in Kolkata in December.

Pope Francis Sets Canonization Date For Mother Teresa: Sept. 4

12:13pm March 15, 2016

by Bill Chappell

In addition to Mother Teresa, four other Catholic figures — who lived in Argentina, Mexico, Sweden and Poland — will become saints this year.

Mother Teresa, seen here giving her blessing to a child in 1993, will be made a saint, after Pope Francis issued a decree recognizing a second miracle attributed to her.

Pope Francis Will Make Mother Teresa A Saint

9:30am December 18, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Pope Francis has issued a decree attributing a second miracle to the founder of the Missionaries of Charity who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.