In the Indian city where Mother Teresa founded her order, ambivalence about her legacy. September 4, 2016. Images of Mother Teresa near the Missionaries of Charity’s Mother House in Kolkata, India.

Albanian Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity, Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997) at a hospice for the destitute and dying in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, 1969.

The Missionaries of Charity, the Catholic religious order begun by Mother Teresa, is looking into setting up a mission in Baltimore for its members to work among people who are poor or dying.

Late Mother Teresa's Order Investigated For Child Trafficking In India A nun and a worker at a Missionaries of Charity shelter were arrested last week for allegedly selling four infants.

After reaching India in 1929, Mother Teresa served as a teacher at the Loreto nuns’ St. Mary’s High School, until she decided to leave in 1948 in order to set up the MC congregation.

Elected to the position of Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity on March 24, 2009, Sr. Prema is the second to take over the order after Mother Teresa's death in 1997.

Mother Teresa filled the 16,000-seat Cajundome with Catholics, clergy and the curious. And before she left town, Mother Teresa set up a Missionaries of Charity order.

Mother Teresa, the frail Roman Catholic nun who won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work among the sick and dying, said Wednesday she was stepping down as head of the religious order she founded in ...

Mother Teresa, who will be canonized as a saint on Sunday by Pope Francis, is renowned for her devotion to the poor, but she is less well-known as the astute builder of a hugely successful ...

ROME: Mother Teresa´s old religious order the Missionaries of Charity was Tuesday stepping up preparations for a host of celebrations to mark her canonisation in Rome on Sunday. A full ...

Born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910, Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity order in 1949, after what she called an inspiration from God to care for the world's most destitute and sick.

As religious vocations for women have declined by around a quarter since 1997, Mother Teresa’s order has grown by a third—with more than 5,100 sisters serving in 139 countries.