Sister Nirmala, Mother Teresa’s Successor, Dies
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Sister Nirmala Joshi, the nun who took over from Mother Teresa as head of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata and served for over a decade, died early Tuesday. She was 80 years old. Read More »Hardline Hindu Leader Hits Out at Mother Teresa
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Mohan Bhagwat, the head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, said that the Catholic nun was motivated by wanting to convert those she helped to Christianity. Read More »Indian and Pakistani Nobel Prize Winners
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An Indian and a Pakistani shared the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, the first time the prize has been shared by nationals of the two rival countries. Here’s a look at previous Nobel Prize winners from the subcontinent. Read More »Mother Teresa, CEO?
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What can CEOs learn from Mother Teresa, a nun who spent her life helping the sick and the poorest of the poor in the slums of Kolkata? Ruma Bose, who co-authored a new book on the Catholic nun, says the answer is lots.And no, hers is not a bid to persuade businessmen to boost their philanthropic efforts – Bill Gates and Warren Buffett already took care of that.Instead, “Mother Teresa, CEO: Unexpected Principles for Practical Leadership,” which Ms. Bose wrote with businessman Lou Faust, looks at the nun’s achievements through a corporate lens, describing her as a leader who saw her enterprise grow from “start-up to multinational.” Read More »India Award Links Merkel, Mugabe
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- German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the latest in the line of winners of the Nehru Award.
What do Angela Merkel, Mother Teresa, Robert Mugabe, Josip Broz Tito, Hosni Mubarak and Martin Luther King have in common? Not much, but they do share the honor of being recipients of the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding.Ms. Merkel, the German Chancellor, is the latest in a long and diverse line of winners that also includes the likes of Nelson Mandela, Indira Gandhi, Yasser Arafat and Aung San Suu Kyi. Read More »Celebrating Mother Teresa at Foot of Empire State
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- Several hundred people protested at the Empire State Building on Thursday.
Hundreds gathered at the Empire State Building Thursday evening to pay homage to Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mother Teresa, who would have turned 100 yesterday had she been alive.Some were there in “peaceful protest” against the Empire State building’s decision not to light up the building in blue and white, but others said they were there to “simply celebrate a great life.”The top of the Empire State was lit up in red, white and blue for Women’s Equality Day. Anthony Malkin, president of Malkin Holdings, which supervises the iconic skyscraper, has maintained that they celebrate Easter, Eid, Hanukkah and Christmas, but refrain from marking religious figures or entertaining requests from religious organizations Read More »Mother Teresa vs. the Empire State Building
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- Mother Teresa has been called the “Angel of Mercy” by many. Her 100th birthday is being commemorated in places all over the world.
For years enfant terrible Christopher Hitchens has been a rather solitary voice in his refusal to join millions of people in admiring Nobel Peace Laureate Mother Teresa for her work with the poor of Kolkata. Upon her beatification, Mr. Hitchens called her “a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud.”Now he seems to have some company in the Empire State Building’s Anthony Malkin, who has steadfastly refused to light up the building in blue and white on Aug. 26, her 100thbirthday if she had still been alive.Protesters are expected to converge on the building on her birthday at 6:00 p.m. EST to speak against the decision not to light up the building in blue and white, Politics Daily’s Religion Reporter David Gibson said Thursday.Read More »
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