On 7 October 1950 the new congregation of the Missionaries of Charity was officially established in the Archdiocese of Calcutta. By the early 1960s, Mother Teresa began to send her Sisters to ...

Mother Teresa was the superior general and foundress of this worldwide Order of the Missionaries of Charity, with over 4,000 sisters, and yet there she was on her hands and knees washing the floor!

“I met Mother Teresa, not face to face, but through the actions of the sisters who worked at the Missionaries of Charity Home for the Dying in Kolkata,” said Bell, who accompanied Mark on her ...

stormed a nursing home run by the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa. According to the account of the lone surviving nun, Sister Rio, ISIS gunmen captured Sisters Anselm ...

Mother Teresa, the renowned nun and missionary ... In 1948 she became an Indian citizen and founded the order of Missionaries of Charity in Kolkota (Calcutta) in 1950, which became noted for ...

The Indian government has declared a day of state mourning for the missionary nun ... sombre mood outside the Mother House, as the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity is known.

Mother Teresa is widely recognized today for her charitable work; through the Order of Missionaries she offered help to the ill, the poor, the starving and the dying.