Missionaries Of Charity

The FCRA licence for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity was restored Saturday, according to an entry in the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act website, two weeks after the Home Ministry cited "adverse inputs" to refuse a renewal request.

Odisha will give financial aid to the Missionaries of Charity, the Catholic religious order and philanthropic organisation started by Mother Teresa, after it was blocked from accessing foreign donations.

NGO Funding License: FCRA licences - needed to receive funding from abroad - of over 12,000 NGOs and other organisations have expired, the Home Ministry said Saturday, days after it refused renewal of Mother Teresa's charity's licence.

A day after a controversy over the Centre's refusal to renew the Missionaries of Charity's license to accept foreign donations, officials of the organisation said work in its orphanages, hospices, and shelters for the poor are "going on as usual".

India's government has barred the Missionaries of Charity, the Catholic religious order and philanthropic organization started by Mother Teresa, from accessing foreign donations for not meeting eligibility conditions under local laws.

West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Sukanta Majumdar on Monday slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee fuelling a controversy over bank accounts of Missionaries of Charity being frozen.

The government did not freeze bank accounts operated by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, the Home Ministry said Monday evening, claiming the organisation had itself written to SBI asking for its accounts to be suspended.

Today marks Mother Teresa's 111th birth anniversary. The United Nations (UN) has paid a glowing tribute to Mother Teresa by releasing a definitive postage stamp.

Mother Teresa's birth anniversary: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday paid tribute to Mother Teresa on her 110th birth anniversary. Fondly remembering Mother Teresa - "Saint Teresa of Calcutta" - the Chief Minister tweeted: "Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

Several nuns gathered at the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata this morning to pay tribute to Mother Teresa on her 109th birth anniversary.

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday asked child-care homes run by the Missionaries of Charity (MoC) to "come back into" the government's system of adoption services.

The Jharkhand government will cancel the licence of seven children's homes run by Missionaries of Charity in Ranchi, an official said today.

After reports of child trafficking from the Ranchi branch of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity emerged last month, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das had directed the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights to investigate all such centres and shelter homes by August 15.

The Women and Child Development or WCD Ministry has said that it has asked all states and Union territories to issue instructions for conducting inspection of all homes run by the Missionaries of Charity or MoC.

For the first time since a nun was arrested in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi 13 days ago for allegedly selling an infant, the Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity has spoken out, expressing "regret, sorrow and condemnation of individual actions" that she spelt out have, however, no links to the Missionaries of Charity.

The FCRA licence for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity was restored Saturday, according to an entry in the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act website, two weeks after the Home Ministry cited "adverse inputs" to refuse a renewal request.

Odisha will give financial aid to the Missionaries of Charity, the Catholic religious order and philanthropic organisation started by Mother Teresa, after it was blocked from accessing foreign donations.

NGO Funding License: FCRA licences - needed to receive funding from abroad - of over 12,000 NGOs and other organisations have expired, the Home Ministry said Saturday, days after it refused renewal of Mother Teresa's charity's licence.

A day after a controversy over the Centre's refusal to renew the Missionaries of Charity's license to accept foreign donations, officials of the organisation said work in its orphanages, hospices, and shelters for the poor are "going on as usual".

India's government has barred the Missionaries of Charity, the Catholic religious order and philanthropic organization started by Mother Teresa, from accessing foreign donations for not meeting eligibility conditions under local laws.

West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Sukanta Majumdar on Monday slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee fuelling a controversy over bank accounts of Missionaries of Charity being frozen.

The government did not freeze bank accounts operated by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, the Home Ministry said Monday evening, claiming the organisation had itself written to SBI asking for its accounts to be suspended.

Today marks Mother Teresa's 111th birth anniversary. The United Nations (UN) has paid a glowing tribute to Mother Teresa by releasing a definitive postage stamp.

Mother Teresa's birth anniversary: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday paid tribute to Mother Teresa on her 110th birth anniversary. Fondly remembering Mother Teresa - "Saint Teresa of Calcutta" - the Chief Minister tweeted: "Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."

Several nuns gathered at the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata this morning to pay tribute to Mother Teresa on her 109th birth anniversary.

Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Monday asked child-care homes run by the Missionaries of Charity (MoC) to "come back into" the government's system of adoption services.

The Jharkhand government will cancel the licence of seven children's homes run by Missionaries of Charity in Ranchi, an official said today.

After reports of child trafficking from the Ranchi branch of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity emerged last month, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das had directed the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights to investigate all such centres and shelter homes by August 15.

The Women and Child Development or WCD Ministry has said that it has asked all states and Union territories to issue instructions for conducting inspection of all homes run by the Missionaries of Charity or MoC.

For the first time since a nun was arrested in Jharkhand's capital Ranchi 13 days ago for allegedly selling an infant, the Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity has spoken out, expressing "regret, sorrow and condemnation of individual actions" that she spelt out have, however, no links to the Missionaries of Charity.