Mother Teresa’s nuns cancel birth celebrations because of Covid-19

Missionaries of Charity nuns cancelled the usual birth anniversary celebrations of their founder, St Teresa, this year after some nuns tested positive for Covid-19. Ucanews.com reported the saintly nun’s 110th birth anniversary passed off without the customary celebrations on 26thAugust at the congregation’s headquarters. After nine nuns tested positive for Covid-19 at Missionaries of Charity... Read More

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August 27, 2019

St Teresa of Kolkata’s birthday not forgotten by Missionaries of Charity

Missionaries of Charity nuns in India celebrated the birthday of their order’s founder, St Teresa of Kolkata, three years after her canonisation, breaking a Catholic convention. Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of Kolkata led a Mass on Monday 26th August marking the 109th anniversary of the saint’s birth in the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in... Read More

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May 9, 2019

Catholic minorities can still change the world, pope says at audience

Visiting the small Catholic communities in Bulgaria and North Macedonia offered an opportunity to encourage the faithful to remember God’s miracle of being able to feed a multitude with just a few loaves and fishes, Pope Francis said. He said the trip also gave him a chance to strengthen Christian unity with the Orthodox Church... Read More

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May 7, 2019

Pope draws lessons from Mother Teresa in city of her birth

Pope Francis went to the tiny Balkan nation of North Macedonia to pay tribute to a tiny saint who accomplished big things: St Teresa of Kolkata. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Ganxhe Bojaxhiu to Albanian parents in Skopje on 26th August, 1910, so after paying the obligatory formal visit to North Macedonia’s president, Pope Francis... Read More

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November 6, 2018

In India, Missionaries of Charity will again offer children for adoption

The Missionaries of Charity congregation has agreed to resume its service of offering children for adoption. The congregation founded by St Teresa of Kolkata, commonly known as Mother Teresa, discontinued giving babies from their orphanages for adoption in October 2015 after disagreeing with a new federal law that allowed single and divorced women to adopt... Read More

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August 17, 2017

Kosovo to dedicate cathedral named for Mother Teresa

A cathedral named for St Teresa of Kolkata is scheduled to be dedicated in Kosovo on the 20th anniversary of her death. The cathedral will be dedicated on 5th September in Pristina. Albanian-born Cardinal Ernest Simoni will represent Pope Francis at the dedication. Celebrations of the neo-classical cathedral, on Pristina’s Bill Clinton Boulevard, will begin... Read More

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September 13, 2016

Mother Teresa upheld as the human face of eternal hope at UN

St Teresa of Kolkata was described as the human face of eternal hope that embodied the founding principles of the world body during a program honouring her canonisation. The saint also offers an enduring example of what the UN can achieve, said Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Holy See’s permanent observer to the United Nations, one... Read More

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September 8, 2016

God sent his son to show mercy to sinners, not punish them

God did not send his son into the world to cast off the wicked but to offer them a path to conversion through mercy and love, Pope Francis said. Those who object to Jesus’ mercy toward sinners often create an “image of God that impedes them from enjoying his real presence,” the pope said at... Read More

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September 6, 2016

Miracle is sign of mercy, says Brazilian who prayed to Mother Teresa

The inexplicable recovery from a severe brain infection – attributed to the intercession of St Teresa of Kolkata – is a sign that God’s mercy is for everyone, said the Brazilian man who was healed. “Merciful God looks over all of us, without distinction. Today it was me, perhaps tomorrow it will be someone else.... Read More

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September 6, 2016

St Teresa reliquary reflects her life and her works

At every canonisation ceremony, people connected to the new saint carry to the altar a relic – often a bone shard from the new saint’s body. The relic presented at the Mass for St Teresa of Kolkata was a few drops of her blood. A relic is like a keepsake, a tangible reminder that the... Read More

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