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March 7, 2016

Pope Francis calls murdered nuns in Yemen ‘today’s martyrs’

Yemeni pro-government fighters guard outside a Missionaries of Charity elderly home March 4 after unidentified gunmen targeted the home in Aden, Yemen. Four Missionaries of Charity and 10 to 12 other people were killed in the attack.

Pope Francis said four nuns executed by gunmen in Yemen at a home where they cared for elderly and disabled residents are “today’s martyrs.”

Published in Vatican
August 8, 2015

Missionaries of Charity care for the dying in Nepal’s holiest temple

An elderly woman kisses the hand of Sister Marica of the Missionaries of Charity at a home for the elderly in the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, July 4. The nuns have been caring for the dying and the elderly sick at the destitute center since 1978, when Mother Teresa initiated the service at the Nepal's holiest Hindu temple.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Every Saturday morning businessman Rajan Silwal rushes to the Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu to see a few friends.

Published in International
June 23, 2015

Sr. Nirmala Joshi, successor to Blessed Teresa, dies at 81

In this 2008 file photo, Missionaries of Charity Sister Nirmala Joshi meets Christian refugees who had been sheltered in Kandhamal, India. Sister Nirmala, 80, died June 23. She would have turned 81 in a month.

CALCUTTA, India - Sr. Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Blessed Teresa of Calcutta as superior general of the Missionaries of Charity and led the order for 12 years until retiring in 2009, died early June 23 in Calcutta at age 80.

Published in Canada: Toronto-GTA
May 20, 2015

Nepal authorities try to block Missionaries of Charity delivering aid

A member of the Missionaries of Charity helps distribute relief items to earthquake victims May 16 in the mountains overlooking Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Members of the Missionaries of Charity had to spend more than two hours waiting at police headquarters for clearance before they could deliver food, blankets and other promised relief to earthquake victims in a remote mountainous area of Nepal.

Published in International
April 28, 2015

Inclement weather, logistical issues delay aid for Nepal quake victims

Survivors look at destroyed buildings April 27 following an earthquake in Bhaktapur, Nepal. More than 3,600 people were known to have been killed and more than 6,500 others injured after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit a mountainous region near Kathmandu April 25.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Inclement weather and logistical pressures were delaying aid to hundreds of thousands of Nepalese earthquake victims.

Published in International
April 12, 2013

V.I.P. youth discern God’s call

Youth and young adults share a meal at the rectory of St. Benedict’s parish for the very first gathering of Vocation in Progress.

TORONTO - Salesian Father Michael Pace need not look far to see vocations in many forms. One of his younger sisters is a consecrated Missionary of Charity in San Francisco, his brother and two older sisters are each married with 20 children between them, and his other younger sister, Antoinette, has discerned a call to the single life and works as her parish’s lay pastoral associate.

Published in Youth Speak News