India has reinstated Mother Teresa’s charity’s foreign funding permission
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After refusing to renew Mother Teresa’s charity’s licence, India has now authorised it to accept overseas donations.
India’s home ministry declared on Christmas Day that the registration had not been renewed due to adverse inputs.
Hindu fundamentalists have long accused the charity of converting people to Christianity through its programmes. These charges have been refuted by the charity.
The Missionaries of Charity, on the other hand, are once again on the list of organisations that have been permitted to receive foreign funds.
Derek O’Brien, a politician from the opposition Trinamool Congress party, tweeted that it has been reinstated.
The government has yet to respond, but according to the ANI news agency, the licence was restored after “required documents were” presented to the relevant department. The organisation revealed last month that its renewal application had been denied, adding that it would not run any foreign financial accounts “until the matter is resolved.”
Mamata Banerjee, the West Bengal chief minister, had previously faced backlash after tweeting that the government had stopped the charity’s bank accounts. The government and the country, on the other hand, both denied that the accounts had been stopped.
Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun from Macedonia who immigrated to India in 1950, created the Kolkata-based organisation.
It is a well-known Catholic charity throughout the world. Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work in 1979, and Pope Francis proclaimed her a saint 19 years after her death.
Hinduism is the majority religion in India. However, the country’s Christian population is estimated to be over 24 million people, or around 2% of the total population, and it has Asia’s second-largest Catholic community, after the Philippines. Authorities have attempted to put a stop to purported Hindu conversion campaigns to Christianity and Islam. Several BJP-led states have recently enacted or are discussing legislation prohibiting religious conversion for marriage.
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