"517 missions in more than 100 countries. In 1990, Mother Teresa asked to resign as head of the Missionaries, but was soon voted back in as Superior General. On March 13, 1997, six months before Mother Teresa's death, Sister Mary Nirmala Joshi was selected the new Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity. Sister Mary Prema was elected to succeed Sister Nirmala during a general chapter held in Kolkata in April 2009. In July 1998 in Al Hudaydah, Yemen, three Missionaries of Charity, two Indians and a Filipina, were shot and killed as they left a hospital. In March 2016"
"based in London, serving a record 4 successive 4-year terms as Secretary-General from 1974 to 1989. After moving to London with her husband, Nirmala Srivastava worked with seven London hippies who became the first Western Sahaja Yogis. In 1979 Nirmala Srivastava declared herself to be the complete incarnation of the Adi (Primordial) Shakti or Holy Spirit to her devotees. She has also claimed to be Maitreya and the Mahdi. Nirmala Srivastava has been described as ""a simple Indian housewife... with a motherly and compassionate personality"". In 1980 Nirmala Srivastava first toured Europe spreading Sahaja Yoga and in 1981 she toured"
"the Danish missionary Dr. Liz. Madsen (1913-1991). After a prolonged service of 11 years she wanted to handover the charge to a suitable successor. Madsen's search for a successor came to an end when she found Mr. & Mrs. Henry. Nancy Lott, while working in India as a volunteer from the United Church of Christ, met Dr Virendra K. Henry and married him. In 1975 Dr. and Mrs. Henry joined to take over the hospital. The Henrys worked at Bissam Cuttack for a long time and later moved to Mungeli Christian Hospital. Today the hospital has its own buildings and"
"poverty and obedience, and the fourth vow, to give ""Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor"". The Missionaries of Charity at the time of her death had 610 missions in 123 countries including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; children's and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and schools. For over 45 years, she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Her beatification by Pope John Paul II following her death gave her the title ""Blessed Teresa"
"Apostolic. These women resolved to form a new congregation, and Mother Mary traveled to Rome that November to seek permission for this from the Holy See. She obtained this from Pope Pius IX on 6 January 1877, under the name of Missionaries of Mary. Unlike the instruction focus of the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix, the Missionaries would carry out a ministry of providing medical care to the women of India who were unable to receive it from male doctors, due to the practice of purdah, which strictly segregated them from contact with men. Mother Mary had seen the consequences and"
"like angels—loved and wanted."" She opened a hospice for those with leprosy, calling it Shanti Nagar (City of Peace). The Missionaries of Charity established leprosy-outreach clinics throughout Calcutta, providing medication, dressings and food. The Missionaries of Charity took in an increasing number of homeless children; in 1955 Teresa opened Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, the Children's Home of the Immaculate Heart, as a haven for orphans and homeless youth. The congregation began to attract recruits and donations, and by the 1960s it had opened hospices, orphanages and leper houses throughout India. Teresa then expanded the congregation abroad, opening a house in Venezuela"
"the Sacred Heart, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. The Catholic nun Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work among India's poor. Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo won the same award in 1996 for ""work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor"". The church is also actively engaged in international aid and development through organisations such as Catholic Relief Services, Caritas International, Aid to the Church in Need, refugee"
"junior and degree colleges were opened. In the year 1974, the Archbishop visited Calcutta for a CBCI meeting and proceeded to invite Blessed Mother Teresa to work in the archdiocese of Hyderabad (Arulappa, p. 47-50). It was only in 1978 that the missionaries of charity started arriving in Secunderabad. On 15 August 1978, the work of the Missionaries of Charity was inaugurated. Later in January 1979, when Blessed Mother Teresa arrived in Hyderabad for the first time, the Archbishop was there to receive her and later took her to the residence of the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Dr."
"was assassinated by Ranjit Singh, a member of the Akhand Kirtani Jatha. The Jatha, shortly before the killing, had been involved in protests against the followers of the Sant Nirankari Mission. After the assassination of third guru Gurubachan SIngh, his son Baba Hardev Singh succeeded as the head of the organisation and spread the Mission's message of universal brotherhood through God-realization until his death on 13 May 2016. On 5 Aug 2016, Baba Hardev Singh's wife, Savinder Kaur succeeded him and became the first woman to lead the Sant Nirankari Mission. On 16 July 2018, Sudiksha Singh, daughter of former"
"of Charity home in the United States was established in the South Bronx area of New York City, and by 1984 the congregation operated 19 establishments throughout the country. Teresa had a heart attack in Rome in 1983 while she was visiting Pope John Paul II. Following a second attack in 1989, she received an artificial pacemaker. In 1991, after a bout of pneumonia in Mexico, she had additional heart problems. Although Teresa offered to resign as head of the Missionaries of Charity, in a secret ballot the sisters of the congregation voted for her to stay and she agreed"
"life during these early months: On 7 October 1950, Teresa received Vatican permission for the diocesan congregation which would become the Missionaries of Charity. In her words, it would care for ""the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone"". By 1997 the 13-member Calcutta congregation had grown to more than 4,000 sisters who managed orphanages, AIDS hospices and charity centres worldwide, caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor"
"took the name of Missionaries of Mary, with Mother Mary of the Passion elected as their Superior. Mother Mary's vision was to maintain their commitment to a life in which the Sisters combined contemplative prayer with their service. One characteristic which the new congregation adopted, which distinguished it from their previous one, was the provision of medical care to the local people. This was especially true for the women of India, who were strictly segregated from men in the traditional system of ""purdah"". Mother Mary had seen the need for this and, as women themselves, the Sisters began to visit"
"iron is heated up, a red rose color, but extremely cooling and soothing."" She stated that the potential for all humanity to gain spiritual self-awareness was realised at this time, which she characterises as a ""historical process of en-masse self-realization and inner transformation"". Soon after she founded Sahaja Yoga in Mumbai. In ""The Power of Intention"", Wayne Dyer summarises Shri Mataji's message as follows: In 1972 Mrs. Nirmala Srivastava sailed to the US and warned against false gurus. In 1974 Chandrika Prasad Srivastava was elected to serve as the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a United Nations agency"
"centres. The first secretary of the Math was Kiran Chandra Dutt. The Vivekananda Mission did splendid relief work in the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake. After the demise of Tulsi Maharaj in 1938, Swami Amritananda, a disciple of the Holy Mother became its president till his death in 1941. Then Swami Chandreswarananda, a disciple of the Holy Mother and a brilliant orator became the president till he died in 1946. Swami Asitananda, a disciple of the Holy Mother, was the next president and he led the organisation till 1951. Swami Tripurananda, a disciple of Swami Bramhananda, became the fifth president. He died"
"a majority vote in 1982 favouring the Ordination of women in the Church of South India. While Elizabeth Paul became the first ordained woman Priest in India in 1987, Marathakavalli David became the first woman Priest in Kerala in 1989. Since her school days, Marathakavalli nursed an ambition to become a Priest and was influenced by the lives of Florence Nightingale and William Carey who strove to serve mankind braving all odds. She also acknowledges the inspiration from one of the pioneer missionaries, Rev. Harris. It was during the 1970 Church of South India Synod that P. Solomon, then Moderator"
"mantle to women including Yogananda to the American born Daya Mata and then to Mrinalini Mata. Mrinalini Mata, a direct disciple of Yogananda, was the president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India from 9 January 2011 until her death on 3 August 2017. She too was personally chosen and trained by Yogananda to help guide the dissemination of his teachings after his death. On 30 August 2017, Brother Chidananda was elected as the next president in a unanimous vote by the SRF Board of Directors. India released a commemorative stamp in honor of Paramahansa Yogannada in"
"America, North America, Europe and Australia. They have 19 homes in Kolkata (Calcutta) alone which include homes for women, orphaned children, and homes for the dying, and for those dying of AIDS; a school for street children, and a leper colony. In 1963, Brother Andrew (formerly Ian Travers-Ballan) founded the Missionary Brothers of Charity in Australia along with Mother Teresa. In 1965, by granting a Decree of Praise, Pope Paul VI granted Mother Teresa's request to expand her congregation to other countries. The Congregation started to grow rapidly, with new homes opening all over the globe. The congregation's first house"
"of health care services - especially in Catholic Nations like the Philippines. The famous Mother Teresa of Calcutta established the Missionaries of Charity in the slums of Calcutta in 1948 to work among ""the poorest of the poor"". Initially founding a school, she then gathered other sisters who ""rescued new-born babies abandoned on rubbish heaps; they sought out the sick; they took in lepers, the unemployed, and the mentally ill"". Teresa achieved fame in the 1960s and began to establish convents around the world. By the time of her death in 1997, the religious institute she founded had more than"
"guru of the faith. In 1929, one segment of the movement led by Baba Buta Singh, now known as the Sant Nirankari Mission, disassociated itself from the original Nirankari movement as well as mainstream Sikhism and became an independent sect. Baba Buta Singh was succeeded by Baba Avtar Singh. In the 1960s, the rapid growth of the Sant Nirankari Mission aroused the ire of fundamentalist Sikhs and led to violent clashes. There were significant violent clashes in 1978 that led to Operation Blue Star and the 1980s insurgency in Punjab. In 1980, Gurbachan Singh, third head (""satguru"") of the Mission,"
"to continue. In April 1996 she fell, breaking her collarbone, and four months later she had malaria and heart failure. Although Teresa had heart surgery, her health was clearly declining. According to Archbishop of Calcutta Henry Sebastian D'Souza, he ordered a priest to perform an exorcism (with her permission) when she was first hospitalised with cardiac problems because he thought she might be under attack by the devil. On 13 March 1997 Teresa resigned as head of the Missionaries of Charity, and she died on 5 September. At the time of her death, the Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000"
"promoting cooperation, eliminating religious barriers, and bettering the economic status of India's poor. Kirpal Singh was the first Living Master of the Sant Mat/Surat Shabd Yoga Path of the Audible Lifestream lineage to visit the West (1955). Kirpal Singh left his earthly form on 21 August 1974, at the age of eighty. His death caused an intense successional dispute amongst his followers. In 1963, he had declared that he knew of no one competent to be his successor. One of the recognized successors was Darshan Singh. However, Russell Perkins, leader of the Sant Bani Ashram in the United States, which"
"movement and was addressed as Niruma ('Mother Niru') by her followers from 1999. Niruben Amin organised the movement by publishing the discourses of Dada Bhagwan, formalising ""Gnanvidhi"", construction of temples and composing ritual worship (""puja""). In 2002, she inaugurated a temple complex called the Trimandir in Adalaj, Gandhinagar, which was developed under her guidance and supervision. The temple has statues of Simandhar Swami, Shiva and Krishna. She also established a commune, Simandhar City, there. On 19 March 2006, Niruben Amin died following stomach cancer. She was succeeded by Deepakbhai Desai. Her memorial (""Samadhi"") is erected at Trimandir, Adalaj. Niruben Amin"
"Franciscan Missionaries of Mary The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary are a Roman Catholic religious institute founded by Mother Mary of the Passion (born Hélène de Chappotin de Neuville, 1839–1904) at Ootacamund, then British India, in 1877. The Missionaries form an international religious congregation of women representing 78 nationalities spread over 77 countries on five continents. Mother Mary of the Passion, a novice of the Sisters of Mary Reparatrix, a congregation dedicated to the training of women in the spirit of St. Ignatius of Loyola, had been sent in 1865 from France to the Apostolic Vicariate of Madurai in British India,"
"Church and after some appropriate training returned to India to help galvanise potential leaders among women in the Church, working in the Dornakal diocese. In 1933 she was ordained a deaconess. After World War Two, Sister Carol was made secretary of a new organisation training women for leadership across the region which in 1947 would become covered by the Church of South India, uniting the Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian traditions. From this effort was developed the Order of Women, which supported Church of India women workers called to a celibate life, based at Vishranthi Nilayam, the 'House of Refreshment', in"
"to Australia. She arrived in Guntur, India on 12 February. She joined Congregation of the Society of Jesus Mary Joseph and became known as Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart JMJ. In 1922, after the completion of her religious training, Mary began practising as a doctor-Sister. The basic dispensary where Mary began her medical mission work in Guntur grew into St Joseph’s Hospital. Mary provided direct medical care for hundreds of thousands of patients, most of them poor women. She trained local women to be compounders (dispensers), midwives and nurses. In 1943 Mary founded the Catholic Health Association of India"
"entered the monks’ postulant ashram of SRF in Encinitas in 1977. He completed his postulant training in 1979 and was transferred to the SRF Headquarters at Mt. Washington and was assigned to editorial work in the Publications Department. He was appointed a member of the SRF and YSS Boards of Directors in 2009. On August 30, 2017, he was elected as the next president and spiritual head of Self-Realization Fellowship/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India in a unanimous vote by the SRF Board of Directors. He succeeded Sri Mrinalini Mata, who passed away in early August 2017. Brother Chidananda Brother Chidananda"
"Trivandrum, Indore, Bhuvaneswar, Haridwar, Almora and one in far off Australia. New Mission centres were opened in the rural areas of West Bengal like Burdwan, Midnapore and 24 Parganas. She stayed at the helm for 26 years till her passing away in 1999. She initiated many devotees. Many learned and educated people were influenced by her and they include Amzad Ali Khan, the famous Sitarist, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, whose wife Zubeida Khan was her disciple, Ashish Khan, noted Sitarist, Sanjib Chattopadhyay, noted Bengali novelist, Nimaisadhan Basu, academic and historian, Harsha Dutta, noted journalist, J.B Kripalani, famous politician and others."
"Mary Prema Pierick Sister Mary Prema Pierick, M.C. (born 13 May 1953), is the current Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity of Calcutta, India, the religious institute founded by the Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She was born Mechthild Pierick in a farming community in Reken, Germany. In 1980, after reading the biography of the foundress, ""Something Beautiful for God"" by Malcolm Muggeridge, she went to meet Mother Teresa in Berlin. She felt called to join her work and moved to India to join the Missionaries. Pierick eventually became the Regional Superior of the institute for the Sisters in"
"of social settlement work, involving serving a community by living among its people, from their college life into missions. In 1894 they outlined a plan for a Missionary Settlement for University Women where women from English universities would set up a hostel in India and do medical, educational, and evangelistic work. In 1896, she helped found this Missionary Settlement for University Women in Bombay, India, setting into practice the strategy of befriending the Indian women so that the teachings were heard. In 1900 she accompanied Mary Fraser on a walking tour of the Kula Valley. In 1901, she became the"
"the American born Daya Mata and then to Mrinalini Mata. In 2010, Mrinalini Mata became the next president of SRF/YSS, with an official announcement on January 9, 2011, holding this position until her death on August 3, 2017. She was ""one of the close disciples of Paramahansa Yogananda personally chosen and trained by him to help guide his society after his passing."" Mrinalini Mata had held the position of SRF/YSS vice-president from 1966 until she became president in 2011. On August 30, 2017, Brother Chidananda was elected as the next and current president with a unanimous vote of the SRF"
"and continued in that post until 1997, when he became a Vice-President of the Order. As a vice-president of the math and mission, he travelled extensively in various parts of the country and visited many branches of the Order and some unaffiliated centres. In 1998, he visited various places in US, Canada, Japan and Singapore. He also went to Malaysia, Fiji, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at different times. In all those places, he spread the message of Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi, Vivekananda and Vedanta and also gave spiritual initiation (mantra diksha) to many seekers. Atmasthananda was elected as the 15th President"
"in 1962 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1969. She later received other Indian awards, including the Bharat Ratna (India's highest civilian award) in 1980. Teresa's official biography, by Navin Chawla, was published in 1992. In Kolkata, she is worshipped as a goddess by some Hindus. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of her birth, the government of India issued a special 5 coin (the amount of money Teresa had when she arrived in India) on 28 August 2010. President Pratibha Patil said, ""Clad in a white sari with a blue border, she and the sisters of Missionaries"
"Joseph Langford) the Missionaries of Charity Fathers in 1984 to combine the vocational aims of the Missionaries of Charity with the resources of the priesthood. By 2007 the Missionaries of Charity numbered about 450 brothers and 5,000 sisters worldwide, operating 600 missions, schools and shelters in 120 countries. Teresa said, ""By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus."" Fluent in five languages – Bengali, Albanian, Serbian, English and Hindi – she"