Mother Teresa Sainthood

Pope Francis will bring to a close his "Year of Mercy" on Sunday, shutting the Holy Door at Saint Peter's after a packed 12 months that has seen him raise Mother Teresa to sainthood and reinstate Syrian refugees.

It is unreal to think that I met someone who has been declared a saint!

When Pope Francis anointed sainthood on Mother Teresa at the Vatican, Kolkata - the city she had lived to serve - burst into tears of joy and chants of jubilation.

Singing nuns and followers clutching flowers flocked to Mother Teresa's tomb in Kolkata to celebrate her proclamation as a saint at the Vatican later Sunday.

As the solemn canonization ceremony bestowed sainthood on Mother Teresa in faraway Rome, members of the Darjeeling branch of the Lay Missionaries of Charity) today took an 8-km ride on the iconic Darjeeling toy train to retrace the trip Mother Teresa took on September 10, 1946.

Mother Teresa, world's most famous nun, will be elevated to sainthood today as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Pope Francis will lead the canonisation ceremony in the square which is expected to draw huge crowds of faithful and other admirers of Mother Teresa.

Pope Francis on Saturday denounced what he called the modern-day sin of indifference to hunger, exploitation and other suffering, while commending the example of Mother Teresa on the eve of a sainthood ceremony for the nun who cared for India's destitute.

President Pranab Mukherjee today called Mother Teresa a "messiah" of the poor and a pillar of support for the weak as he said every Indian will take pride on her canonisation on Sunday.

A 12-member delegation led by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today left for Rome to attend the canonisation ceremony of Mother Teresa on Sunday.

As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in Kolkata where she lived and worked for close to 50 years are filled with pride.

In life, Mother Teresa always made headlines. Even on the eve of her sainthood, she is causing a stir. On Sunday, she will be proclaimed Saint Teresa of Calcutta. But Kolkata wants to know, why not Saint Teresa of Kolkata?

As the countdown begins to sainthood for Mother Teresa on Sunday and everybody who can is off to The Vatican, one man has come down from London to Kolkata and plans to spend September 4 in Mother Teresa's city where she had found him abandoned, crippled with polio and given him a different destiny.

Mother Teresa's birthday is always celebrated joyously at her home, Mother House, in Kolkata. But this year, there is something special in the air. After all, ten days from today, she will be canonized as Saint Teresa of Kolkata.

Special thanksgiving prayers were organised to celebrate Mother Teresa's 106th birth anniversary today, coming just a few days ahead of her proposed canonisation in Vatican on September 4.

Delhi Home Minister Satyendra Jain will fly to Vatican to attend Mother Teresa's sainthood ceremony with Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on Tuesday giving his nod.

Pope Francis will bring to a close his "Year of Mercy" on Sunday, shutting the Holy Door at Saint Peter's after a packed 12 months that has seen him raise Mother Teresa to sainthood and reinstate Syrian refugees.

It is unreal to think that I met someone who has been declared a saint!

When Pope Francis anointed sainthood on Mother Teresa at the Vatican, Kolkata - the city she had lived to serve - burst into tears of joy and chants of jubilation.

Singing nuns and followers clutching flowers flocked to Mother Teresa's tomb in Kolkata to celebrate her proclamation as a saint at the Vatican later Sunday.

As the solemn canonization ceremony bestowed sainthood on Mother Teresa in faraway Rome, members of the Darjeeling branch of the Lay Missionaries of Charity) today took an 8-km ride on the iconic Darjeeling toy train to retrace the trip Mother Teresa took on September 10, 1946.

Mother Teresa, world's most famous nun, will be elevated to sainthood today as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Pope Francis will lead the canonisation ceremony in the square which is expected to draw huge crowds of faithful and other admirers of Mother Teresa.

Pope Francis on Saturday denounced what he called the modern-day sin of indifference to hunger, exploitation and other suffering, while commending the example of Mother Teresa on the eve of a sainthood ceremony for the nun who cared for India's destitute.

President Pranab Mukherjee today called Mother Teresa a "messiah" of the poor and a pillar of support for the weak as he said every Indian will take pride on her canonisation on Sunday.

A 12-member delegation led by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today left for Rome to attend the canonisation ceremony of Mother Teresa on Sunday.

As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in Kolkata where she lived and worked for close to 50 years are filled with pride.

In life, Mother Teresa always made headlines. Even on the eve of her sainthood, she is causing a stir. On Sunday, she will be proclaimed Saint Teresa of Calcutta. But Kolkata wants to know, why not Saint Teresa of Kolkata?

As the countdown begins to sainthood for Mother Teresa on Sunday and everybody who can is off to The Vatican, one man has come down from London to Kolkata and plans to spend September 4 in Mother Teresa's city where she had found him abandoned, crippled with polio and given him a different destiny.

Mother Teresa's birthday is always celebrated joyously at her home, Mother House, in Kolkata. But this year, there is something special in the air. After all, ten days from today, she will be canonized as Saint Teresa of Kolkata.

Special thanksgiving prayers were organised to celebrate Mother Teresa's 106th birth anniversary today, coming just a few days ahead of her proposed canonisation in Vatican on September 4.

Delhi Home Minister Satyendra Jain will fly to Vatican to attend Mother Teresa's sainthood ceremony with Lt Governor Najeeb Jung on Tuesday giving his nod.