Many people say that Mother Teresa never cared for people actually and left them to die..
But I want to ask those people that spread lies, have they ever stepped into India? Not the tourist areas but the actual villages where she worked in? In the slums?
Take a look at an Indian slum.
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You need to personally see the conditions of local small Indian hospitals too, they have rats and roaches all over.. They are not cared for.. How many patients have had their ears and toes eaten up in the nights by rats!
Thats how her homes happened to be, even though they tried their best to keep it clean, after all a slum has all kinds of 'filth' in the form of insects..
This is where Mother Teresa started her work.. in the slums.. Give her a break..
Who would willingly enter a slum?
BTW I'm an Indian and automatically my nose scrunches up when I pass a slum in a taxi, thats how filthy we find it..
My neighbor joined Mother Teresa's missionaries and she came back after 3 days because she could not do it, it was too tough to handle
Teresa wrote in her diary that her first year was fraught with difficulties. She had no income and had to resort to begging for food and supplies. Teresa experienced doubt, loneliness and the temptation to return to the comfort of convent life during these early months.
She wrote in her diary:
Our Lord wants me to be a free nun covered with the poverty of the cross. Today I learned a good lesson. The poverty of the poor must be so hard for them. While looking for a home I walked and walked till my arms and legs ached. I thought how much they must ache in body and soul, looking for a home, food and health. Then the comfort of Loreto [her former order] came to tempt me. 'You have only to say the word and all that will be yours again,' the Tempter kept on saying ... Of free choice, my God, and out of love for you, I desire to remain and do whatever be your Holy will in my regard. I did not let a single tear come!
Teresa received Vatican permission on 7 October 1950 to start the diocesan congregation that would become the Missionaries of Charity. Its mission was to care for, in her own words, "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."
Currently she has more than 6000 nuns and a thousand brothers in more than 800 different homes for the old, sick, orphaned, for women, etc worldwide..
I go to a home close to my place and it is so depressing to see the little kids, crying all the time, most of them less than a year old.. All of them are abandoned kids.. Its really a pitiful sight and I have always cried when I go there..
She did receive criticism by various individuals and groups, including Christopher Hitchens, Michael Parenti, Aroup Chatterjee, Vishva Hindu Parishad, against the proselytizing focus of her work including a strong stance against contraception and abortion, a belief in the spiritual goodness of poverty and alleged baptisms of the dying
Christopher Hitchens often speaks out against the Abrahamic religions, or what he calls "the three great monotheisms" (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). In his book, God Is Not Great, Hitchens expanded his criticism to include all religions, including those rarely criticized by Western secularists such as Hinduism and neo-paganism.
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