India bans Mother Teresa charity from receiving funds from abroad

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

India bans Mother Teresa charity from receiving funds from abroad

Licence application of Missionaries of Charity is rejected on Christmas day amid a wave of anti-Christian sentiment

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
Tue 28 Dec 2021 07.01 GMT

The Indian government has blocked Mother Teresa’s charity from receiving funds from abroad, just days after it faced a police investigation for “hurting religious sentiments of Hindus” amid rising intolerance towards Christians in India.

The Missionaries of Charity, which was started by Mother Teresa in 1950 and runs a network of shelters across India led by nuns to help the poor, was denied the licence to continue to receive funds from abroad, cutting the charity off from vital resources.

The home ministry, which made the decision on Christmas Day, said it had come across “adverse inputs” when considering the application.

The rejection of the application comes less than two weeks after Hindu hardliners accused the charity of carrying out forced conversions of Hindus to Christianity in a home for girls it runs in Vadodara in the state of Gujarat.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/dec/28/india-bans-mother-teresa-charity-from-receiving-funds-from-abroad

[Dr. Shepper]

1. There are some valid criticisms of the

MC order and their missions, but this sounds more like Hindu fundamentalism.

Full disclosure - I worked with and then joined the MCs in my younger years.

[jimfields33]

2. I can understand the sentiment

But in the long run, it will hurt the poor of India.

[Dr. Shepper]

3. True