Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.
On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.
Today the order comprises Active and Contemplative branches of Sisters and Brothers in many countries. In 1963 both the Contemplative branch of the Sisters and the Active branch of the Brothers was founded. In 1979 the Contemplative branch of the Brothers was added, and in 1984 the Priest branch was established.
The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. They provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia, where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers.
The Missionaries of Charity throughout the world are aided and assisted by Co-Workers who became an official International Association on March 29, 1969. By the 1990s there were over one million Co-Workers in more than 40 countries. Along with the Co-Workers, the lay Missionaries of Charity try to follow Mother Teresa's spirit and charism in their families.
Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972). She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards.

thkxxxxxxx 22 ggg for such a nice informative post

johal said:

thkxxxxxxx 22 ggg for such a nice informative post

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u r welcome 22 ji

She was a very noble human being...

God bless her soul..


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awesome post man

At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India.

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ahh thats missionary CRAP lady terresa came to india for conversation purpose only.she just washed 2/3 poor people with gloves in her hand and by the help of bride media that snaps was putted on every newspaper of india with tittle a saint from west..bloddy bhudi witch.......

Kolkatta’s image was tarnished for ever as a poor hellhole because of this Teresa.She portrayed India as a poor, starving, and a diseased land to her Western donors who responded by filling her coffers so that she could continue her mission of converting the poor and illiterate of India. She effectively used the converted Indian nuns for this purpose and thereby achieved her major mission of the Church. Mother Teresa, the founder of the "Missionaries of Charity"was "a crafty user of public relations" as pointed out by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS in his recent book, ,,,,,,,,,The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice .The Western media played a big role in projecting her as a saint and savior of the poor. This powerful media at the same time told the world that Indians, don't care for their helpless people and hence a foreign saint has to perform that job.

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Christian Church and used their military might to convert the natives into
Chrisitanity. Following the dictum 'the end justifies the means,' the Christian
Church had to devise new means to convert Asians and Africans into Christianity
after the demise of the Western Imperialism. Along with this came
a breed of Christian evangelists guided and financed by the Vatican and the
Western powers to carry on the crusade by using the label of"poverty and
desease" as their weapons. That is exactly what Mother Teresa was doing
in India.
Mother Teresa portrayed India as a poor, starving, and a diseased land to her
Western donors who responded by filling her coffers so that she could continue
her mission of converting the poor and illiterate of India. She effectively used
the converted Indian nuns for this purpose and thereby achieved her major
mission of the Church.

Mother Teresa, the founder of the "Missionaries
of Charity"was "a crafty user of public relations" as pointed out by

Christopher Hitchens in his recent book, The Missionary
Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice.
The Western media played a big role in projecting her as a saint and savior of
the poor. This powerful media at the same time told the world that Indians, don't care for their helpless people and hence a foreign
Christian saint has to perform that job.
The Christian Church and the Western media succeeded in convincing many
of the Indian leaders and the westernized Indians that Mother Teresa was a
great saint and therefore should be given a state funeral, an honor reserved
only for great leaders of India.

Re:FAKE SAINTS FROM WEST----- Mother Teresa



The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by Christopher Hitchens about Mother Teresa's life and work.
From the controversial title (a double entendre of a sex position and the missionary work of a celibate nun), the book criticizes Teresa as a political opportunist, who adopted the guise of a saint in order to raise money and spread an extreme religious ideology.

Was Mother Teresa truly a holy, selfless person and completely dedicated
to the service of the poor and the wretched as she has been projected by her
mission and the world press? No, says Hitchens. She befriended
the rich and powerful and was a defender of Western big business.
Though she proclaimed her devotion to the poor and downtordden,
she urged the Indians to forgive Union Carbide for the gas leak in Bhopal 1984
which had killed more than 20,000 people. She visited Haiti in 1981 to accept
that nation's highest award from the Duvalier family and made a glowing
speech in which she said that the dictator 'Baby Doc' and his wife, Michele,
not only loved the poor but were also loved by the poor!

Hitchens further reveals that Mother Teresa went to Albania in 1990, at
that time the most oppressive of the Balkan Stalinist states, and laid a wreath
on the grave of the dictator, Enver Hoxha, and embraced Hoxha's widow
while remaining silent on human rights. In 1992, Mother Teresa gave
many lucrative endorsements, including a character reference to the court
for Charles Keating, the biggest fraud and embezzler in the American history
who stole a total $252 million from mainly small and poor depositors.
Hitchens claims that Keating gave $1.25 million in cash to Mother Teresa
and allowed her to use his private jet. The court had asked her to return the
donation given by Keating but she never replied to the request.

Hitchens describes how Mother Teresa urged the faithful in the
Republic of Ireland to vote against the referendum on the divorce
issue but when asked in an interview in "The Ladies Home
Journal" about Princess Diana's impending divorce, she said,
"It is good thing that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow."
Thus she preached morality and obedience to the poor but
forgiveness and indulgence for the princesses.

Hitchens doubts her celebrated concern for the poor and
the weak. Hitchens cites testimony from the leading American
and British physicians about the extremely low standard of
medicine practiced in her small Calcutta clinics. There are no
pain killers and the syringes are washed in cold water.
He goes on to claim that no public accounts are made available
for her Missionaries of Charity, but enormous sums are known
to have been raised.

Mother Teresa had spoken with pride of having opened more
than 500 convents in 125 countries, "not counting India."
It is obvious that the money donated by well-wishers
(or guilty-conscience Westerners?) for the relief of poor was
being used for the purpose of religious proselytising by the
"Missionary Multinational."

--Hitchens book on this Missonary teressa (Missionary means whoz mission is just to convert peoples directly or indirectly makeing them fools with a tag of fake sainthood)
The missionary position: Mother ... - Google Books

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damm this thread was started in July 14th, 2007.. now i have seen it.