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Canceling Mother Teresa
The world just got a little darker
On Christmas Day, the Indian government banned Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity from receiving foreign funds. With countries no longer able to donate, 22,000 patients and employees are left without food and medicine, according to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The charity provides education, medical care, social assistance, and disaster relief to the poor.
A police complaint said non-Christian children were being taught the Bible.
The move comes amid increasing religious intolerance. A New York Times article describes violence against churches in India as being propelled “by a growing anti-Christian hysteria that is spreading across this vast nation.”
“Anti-Christian vigilantes are sweeping through villages, storming churches, burning Christian literature, attacking schools and assaulting worshipers.”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Mother Teresa
