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Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity seek swift fix after Indian government blocks foreign donations

Supporters of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity reacted with surprise and concern to the Indian government’s ruling that the organization is now ineligible for foreign donations, but a spokeswoman for the Calcutta-based branch of the organization believes the situation will be remedied without much effect on the missionaries’ work.

India’s Ministry of Home Affairs made a determination on Christmas Day that the Missionaries of Charity no longer met eligibility requirements under the Foreign Contributions Regulation Act, the Wall Street Journal reports. In a Dec. 27 announcement, the ministry said that during the renewal of the organization’s application, they found “adverse inputs.” The authorities did not specify what this meant.

Sister Prema, superior general of the Missionaries of Charity, said Dec. 27 that the community’s renewal application under Indian law had not been approved. The organization has asked its centers not to use any foreign contribution accounts “until the matter is resolved.”

Sunita Kumar, a spokeswoman for the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, told the New York Times she was confident the problem could be resolved. She indicated that funding for the missionaries’ work would not be affected immediately due to local support.

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