Barankitse lived through two genocides and has dedicated her life to helping orphaned children and Burundian refugees.

He quotes Mother herself describing one of many instances: “In Rome during the Holy Year (1984), the Holy Father was going to celebrate Mass in the open, and crowds of people were gathered.

St. Teresa of Kolkata, well known as Mother Teresa, founded the Missionaries of Charity congregation and served poor, marginalized and dying people in India and around the world.

When Mother Teresa got to me, she took my hands in hers, looked up at me and into my eyes and asked me when I was coming to Calcutta. I nervously lied and said, "soon, very soon." That was more ...

She was known internationally for helping the sick and poor. Mother Teresa came to New Mexico to see how those struggling in the southwest were being helped. She visited the Gallup Diocese, which ...

After the speech, Mother Teresa and First Lady Hillary Clinton — who, needless to say, held disparate opinions on the topic of the day — briefly conversed, as recalled by Clinton in her 2003 ...

Mother Teresa's charity barred from receiving foreign funds 12/27/2021 Government officials have refused to renew the Missionaries of Charity license, which allows it to receive foreign funding.

Mother Teresa’s words are timeless, however: “I believe the people of today do not think that the poor are like them as human beings. They look down on them.

People feeling alone, even in their über-connectedness — that’s devastating in ways we don’t always recognize. The MCs reach out to people cast aside. We need more people like them, not fewer.

Since her death in 1997, the legacy of Mother Teresa, who was granted sainthood by the Catholic church and won a Nobel Peace Prize, has been under scrutiny for so long that I thought it was common ...