Morning Star
INDIA has blocked Mother Teresa’s charity from receiving foreign funds, a move linked by critics to a wider crackdown on minority religions.
The Home Ministry announced the decision yesterday, saying it had identified “adverse inputs” to the Missionaries of Charity, without elaborating.
The work of Mother Teresa, a Macedonian who moved to India in 1950 and died in 1997, has long been controversial in the country, with Hindu organisations accusing her mission of seeking to convert people to Christianity under the guise of charity.
But the Home Ministry’s decision comes as Indian states ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu chauvinist BJP are passing a range of laws attacking minority religions, including restrictions on marriage between adherents of different faiths. The BJP accuses Muslims, without evidence, of an organised forced conversion-by-marriage programme it terms “love jihad…
