What is strange, for someone who spent a lifetime in seva, is that St Teresa's own personal journals and communication with the Church hierarchy reveal someone in "spiritual desolation", says Sankrant Sanu. Could the Indian sacred traditions have helped her?
As the gentle carer of the 'poorest of poor' became a saint on Sunday, Rediff.com looks back at the two miracles that she performed, paving the way for her to be called a saint.
Sister Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Mother Teresa as head of the Missionaries of Charity founded by the Nobel laureate, died in Kolkata Tuesday morning.
Prayers were held across the Missionaries of Charity centres and churches all over the state to mark the late Roman Catholic nun's birth anniversary and to also commemorate her journey to sainthood on September 4.
Seventeen years after her death, we respectfully remember and honour Mother Teresa.
Leaders across political parties hailed the canonisation of Mother Teresa.
When Pope Francis canonizes the late Mother Teresa at the Vatican on September 4, she will officially be recognised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. However, for her followers in Kolkata, the title is a mere formality.
Coming just a day after she was canonised by Pope Francis in the Vatican City, the death anniversary had a special significance on Monday.
Missionaries of Charity rubbished RSS chief's claim that religious conversions had taken place under Mother Teresa.
Swamy on Wednesday extended support to his party MP Yogi Adityanath, who accused Mother Teresa of being part of a 'conspiracy to Christianise India', saying the views are not isolated, as there have been books published in this regard.
Francis officially cleared Mother Teresa for sainthood on December 17, 2015, recognising her "miraculous healing" of a Brazilian man with multiple brain abscesses, the Vatican said.
Conversion to Christianity was the main objective behind Mother Teresa's service to the poor, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Monday.
The US Postal Service issued the stamp during a special ceremony held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on Sunday. The 44-cent stamp features a portrait of Mother Teresa, who received a Nobel prize in 1979, painted by award-winning artist Thomas Blackshear II of Colorado Springs.
The top court said the NCPCR was empowered to conduct enquiry and take action in accordance with law under the Commission for Protection of Child Rights (CPCR) Act, 2005.
When the Soviet army reached Auschwitz 80 years ago, on January 27, 1945, it found only about 7,000 inmates. What they saw was beyond words -- living skeletons, lice-infested human forms with just skin and bones, barely able to stand, greeted them.
The Missionaries of Charity has applied for copyright in India and sought legal protection for the order's logo and name, according to a report.
For many of the poor and destitute whom Mother Teresa served, the tiny nun was a living saint.
In order to mark the sainthood of Mother Teresa, the government of India granted the trade mark registration.
The Vatican declined to comment on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's controversial remarks.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday tweeted, "I worked wid Mother Teresa for a few months at Nirmal Hriday ashram in Kolkata. She was a noble soul. Pl spare her," said.
I wish they will spare her and not let her life's dedicated efforts be judged," said Vadra.
Mother Teresa will be declared a saint by Pope Francis of the Roman Catholic Church in a canonisation ceremony in Vatican City on Sunday in the presence of over a lakh of her followers from all over the world.
Mother Teresa is expected to be officially canonised in Rome on 4 September as part the pope's Jubilee year of mercy.
The stamp is tentatively planned to go on sale nationwide August 26, 2010, on the birthday of Mother Teresa, who received the Nobel Prize in 1979 for humanitarian work.
In the wake of a storm over Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwats's controversial remarks on Mother Teresa, RSS national prachar pramukh Manmohan Vaidya on Saturday said that Bhagwat's comments had been "blown out of context".
'They must withdraw the word "miracle" from the sainthood of Mother Teresa.'
Professor Peter Hiddema suggests how to master effective negotiating skills, offering examples of Mahatma and Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa to be beatified October 19.
"Bhagwat has done national service by speaking the truth on what missionaries do," the Sena said.
The Vatican normally exhumes the bodies of candidates for beatification and subsequent sainthood.
In a tiny corner in Bengaluru, Sister Jacqueline Jean McEwan has been quietly serving poor leprosy patients for 30 years. Shobha Warrier meets the nun the locals call their own Mother Teresa.
In a tiny corner in Bengaluru, Sister Jacqueline Jean McEwan has been quietly serving poor leprosy patients for 30 years. Shobha Warrier meets the nun the locals call their own Mother Teresa.
Rishabh Pant has been nominated for the prestigious Laureus World Comeback of the Year Award.
Mother Teresa, who may be canonised as a saint by the Vatican later this year, had a deep crisis of faith in God for most part of her life, a set of her letters has revealed.
US President Barack Obama, who won the Nobel Prize for 2009 "recognises" he is not in the same category of other recipients of this coveted award like Nelson Mandela from South Africa and Mother Teresa of India.
"It seems to me that she needed the city more than it needed her," Aroup Chatterjee, a Kolkata-born doctor settled in\n\nEngland, told PTI from London.
A 75-year-old nun in Bengaluru brings those neglected by the stigma of leprosy back into mainstream society. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
