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07-10-2016, 03:53 AM
LAHORE: There is ** doubt that the Pakistani government has accorded a befitting state funeral to the late Abdus Sattar Edhi, who was posthumously awarded the Nishan-i-Imtiaz, ho**ured with a military guard of ho**ur and offered a 21-gun salute on Saturday after**on. However, the state needs to do a lot more to recognise his meritorious services for the suffering mankind and ensure that his legacy continues--the way the Roman Catholic nun and missionary Mother Teresa’s charitable institutions are still running 19 years after her demise--though a few fingers have been pointed out in recent years at her heirs.
For example, in its August 13, 2010, Indian edition, the 'Forbes Magazine' had stated: “When one pays a visit to Mother House, the heart of the 58-year-old Missionaries of Charity, founded by Mother Teresa, one doesn’t see anything out of the ordinary. Sisters in the well-recognised blue-bordered white saris go about their work. Locals come in ones and twos, bow in front of a statue of the woman, they fondly call Maa and go inside the small chapel where her body has been resting for 13 years. But the cacophony is threatening to spill inside the Missionaries. Followers and volunteers are questioning the quality of service given in the care centres. They feel the Missionaries’ care centres are allergic to using modern-day therapy and tech**logy to care for the inhabitants. Often untrained volunteers are given tasks that would **rmally require one to be trained in medicine and therapy.”
The re**wned American journal had added: “It is good news about some of the changes. Unfortunately, we are still in the dark when it comes to their financial records,” says Gonzalez. The donation issue first came up in the early 1990s when it was revealed that Charles Keating, an American banker k**wn for the infamous “saving and loan scandal,” had donated up to $1.25 million to Missionaries of Charity.
Amidst calls to return the money, Mother Teresa controversially chose to remain silent, an incident that is still sited by her critics who demand transparency. In early 2000, Susan Shields, a former Missionaries sister who left the organisation “unhappy”, created a furor by saying she herself had “written receipts of $50,000 in donation, but there was ** sign of the “flood of money.” ** charge of any wrongdoing with regard to finances was, however, proved against Mother Teresa.
While Edhi’s funeral was attended by Army Chief General Raheel Sharif, President Mam**on Hussain, chief ministers Shahbaz Sharif and Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Karachi Corps Commander General Naveed Mukhtar and DG Rangers Major General Hilal Akbar.
Mother Teresa’s last rites were attended by key Indian government functionaries and a lot of foreign dignitaries, including Italian President Oscaro Luigi Scalfaro, Jordan’s Queen **or, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the wife of US President Bill Clinton, Spain’s Queen Sofia, Aline Chretien, the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Former Philippine President Corazon Aqui**, British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, Belgium’s Queen Fabiola and New Zealand’s Minister of Health Bill Heath.
She was also granted a state funeral by the Indian government in gratitude for her services to the poor of all religions in India. The Indian military gave her a guard of ho**ur, and her coffin was carried from the church on the shoulders of eight military ******rs, escorted by a**ther contingent of soldiers in red turbans and preceded by a military band. The then Indian Premier IK Gujral had an**unced a day of mourning.
Mother Teresa funeral details:
In its September 13, 1997 report, the CNN had stated: “Bible readings during the Mass were in Bengali, the language of Calcutta, and Hindi, the national language of India. Mother Teresa’s coffin — kept open so mourners could see her face — was set on a dais in the stadium, draped in the green, white and saffron tricolour flag of her adopted homeland. Surrounded by queens, cardinals and presidents — but especially by the poor and unfortunate whom she devoted her life to loving and helping — Mother Teresa was lauded at her funeral Mass Saturday as “God’s gift to Calcutta and the world.” About 15,000 people attended the service at Netaji indoor stadium in the teeming city where, five decades ago, Mother Teresa began her hands-on ministry to the poorest of the poor. Dignitaries from more than 23 countries were on hand for the Mass. But at the insistence of her religious order, the Missionaries of Charity, about half of the seats in the stadium were reserved for those unfortunate people Mother Teresa served during her life, who referred to her affectionately and simply, as “Mother.”
It had maintained: “Earlier, escorted by a military ho**ur guard, Mother Teresa’s body solemnly made its way through the streets of Calcutta to the stadium. People from all walks of life crowded along both sides of the 5 kilometre (3.1 mile) procession route, which took the body from St Thomas Church, where she had been lying in state for the past week. In this predominately Hindu city, a crowd of perhaps as many as a million people turned out to pay their final respects to the diminutive Roman Catholic nun. In ho**ur of her lifetime of devotion to India’s poor, Mother Teresa was given a state funeral, an ho**ur **rmally reserved for major political figures and heads of state. She was carried from the church on the shoulders of eight military ******rs, escorted by a**ther contingent of soldiers in red turbans and preceded by a military band. Her body was then placed on the same gun carriage that took revered Indian revolutionary figure Mahatma Gandhi to his funeral pyre in 1948.”
The CNN had held: “The carriage, pulled by a military truck, was festooned with garlands of jasmine. Mourners showered the coffin with flower petals from ******* and rooftops and hailed her with waves as the body went by.”
About 15 minutes into the procession, crowds started to push into the street, trying to touch the coffin as police surrounding it tried to keep mourners back.
The American channel had quoted Cardinal Angelo Soda**, the Vatican’s secretary of state, who was Pope John Paul II’s personal representative at the service, as saying: “She taught the world this lesson — it is more blessed to give than to receive.”
The reputed American media house had reported: “The funeral Mass was said in English by Soda**, who hailed Mother Teresa’s “extraordinary spiritual vision” and said she “lit a flame of love” that people should sustain in her memory. In his homily, Soda** directly addressed criticism from some quarters that despite her devotion to the poor, Mother Teresa accepted poverty and did **t do e**ugh to fight its causes. “Mother Teresa was aware of this criticism,” he said. “She would shrug as if saying, ‘While you go on discussing causes and explanations, I will kneel beside the poorest of the poor and attend to their needs.’”
Mother Teresa’s life, achievements and charitable works:
Born as Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in the Yugoslavian city of Skopje (modern day Macedonia), Mother Teresa (1910-1997) had founded the Missionary of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which had consisted of over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries by 2012 or 15 years after her death.
They run hospices, dispensaries, soup kitchens, mobile clinics and homes for people with HIV/AIDA, leprosy and tuberculosis, besides operating orphanages and schools for the needy.
Her birth place Skopje was part of the Ottoman Empire until 1912, when it became a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Her family continued to live in Skopje until 1934, when they moved to Tirana in Albania.
The “Vatican News” had one quoted her saying: “By blood, I am an Albanian. By citizenship, I am an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.”
Mother Teresa was the recipient of numerous ho**urs, including the 1979 **bel Peace Prize.
However, she had refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to laureates, and asked that the $192,000 funds be given to the poor in India.
In October 2003, she was beatified as “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.”
In December 2015, Pope Francis had paved the way for her to be recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Mother Teresa had first been recognised by the Indian government more than a third of a century earlier when she was awarded the “Padma Shri” in 1962 and the “Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding” in 1969.
In 1962, Mother Teresa received the Philippines-based “Ramon Magasaysay Award” for International Understanding, given for work in South or East Asia.
In 1971, Pope Pail IV had awarded her the first Pope John Paul XXIII Peace Prize, commending her for her work with the poor, display of Christian charity and efforts for peace.
She later received the “Pacem in Terris Award” in 1976. This is a Catholic peace award which has been given annually since 1964 by the Davenport Catholic Interracial Council based in the US state of Iowa.
She continued to receive major Indian awards in subsequent years, including India’s highest civilian award, the “Bharat Ratna” in 1980.
She was appointed an ho**rary Companion of the Order of Australia in 1982 for service to the community of Australia and humanity at large.
The United Kingdom and the United States each repeatedly granted awards, culminating in the Order of Merit in 1983 and ho**rary citizenship of the United States in 1996.
Then, she was bestowed with Haiti’s Legion of Ho**ur.
Mother Teresa’s Albanian homeland granted her the Golden Ho**ur of the Nation in 1994.
Numerous Indian and Western universities had also granted her ho**rary degrees.
On August 28, 2010, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of her birth, the government of India issued a special 5 rupee coin, being the sum she first arrived in India with.
During her lifetime, she was both praised and criticised for her anti-abortion views though.
(References: The December 18, 2015 reports of AFP and the Guardian, the September 4, 2015 report of the FOX News, the website of the “Feminists for Life of America,” the May 30, 2007 report of the Vatican News Service, the August 28, 2010 edition of the Times of India, the August 24, 2007 edition of the Time magazine, the official **bel Prize website, Anne Sebba’s 1997 book “Mother Teresa” and Gezmin Alpion’s 2007 book “Mother Teresa: saint or celebrity?”)
Like Abdus Sattar Edhi, Mother Teresa too had lost her father early.
Her father, who was involved in the politics of the Albanian community in Macedonia, had died in 1919 when she was eight years old.
She arrived in India in 1929, at started teaching at Calcutta’s the Loreto convent school in 1937. Increasingly disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta and then the havoc played by the 1943 Bengal Famine, Mother Teresa began her missionary work with the poor in 1948.
Clad in a simple white cotton sari decorated with a blue border, Mother Teresa then adopted Indian citizenship and started running a school in Calcutta for the destitute and starving. Her efforts quickly caught the attention of Indian officials, including the then Prime Minister, who expressed his appreciation.
She had to resort to begging for food and supplies initially.
In October 1950, Teresa received Vatican’s permission to start the diocesan congregation that would become the Missionaries of Charity in years to come. She had founded the Missionaries of Charity Brothers in 1963 and branch of the Sisters had followed in 1976. It began as a small congregation with 13 members in Calcutta.
At the time of her death in 1997, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, and an associated brotherhood of 300 members, operating 610 missions in 123 countries.
By 2007, the Missionaries of Charity numbered approximately 450 brothers and 5,000 sisters worldwide.
The Missionaries of Charity were also aided by co-workers, who numbered over one million by the 1990s.
(References: USA Today, Encyclopedia Britannica and Kathryn Spink’s book “Mother Teresa: a complete authorized biography)
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For example, in its August 13, 2010, Indian edition, the 'Forbes Magazine' had stated: “When one pays a visit to Mother House, the heart of the 58-year-old Missionaries of Charity, founded by Mother Teresa, one doesn’t see anything out of the ordinary. Sisters in the well-recognised blue-bordered white saris go about their work. Locals come in ones and twos, bow in front of a statue of the woman, they fondly call Maa and go inside the small chapel where her body has been resting for 13 years. But the cacophony is threatening to spill inside the Missionaries. Followers and volunteers are questioning the quality of service given in the care centres. They feel the Missionaries’ care centres are allergic to using modern-day therapy and tech**logy to care for the inhabitants. Often untrained volunteers are given tasks that would **rmally require one to be trained in medicine and therapy.”
The re**wned American journal had added: “It is good news about some of the changes. Unfortunately, we are still in the dark when it comes to their financial records,” says Gonzalez. The donation issue first came up in the early 1990s when it was revealed that Charles Keating, an American banker k**wn for the infamous “saving and loan scandal,” had donated up to $1.25 million to Missionaries of Charity.
Amidst calls to return the money, Mother Teresa controversially chose to remain silent, an incident that is still sited by her critics who demand transparency. In early 2000, Susan Shields, a former Missionaries sister who left the organisation “unhappy”, created a furor by saying she herself had “written receipts of $50,000 in donation, but there was ** sign of the “flood of money.” ** charge of any wrongdoing with regard to finances was, however, proved against Mother Teresa.
While Edhi’s funeral was attended by Army Chief General Raheel Sharif, President Mam**on Hussain, chief ministers Shahbaz Sharif and Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Karachi Corps Commander General Naveed Mukhtar and DG Rangers Major General Hilal Akbar.
Mother Teresa’s last rites were attended by key Indian government functionaries and a lot of foreign dignitaries, including Italian President Oscaro Luigi Scalfaro, Jordan’s Queen **or, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the wife of US President Bill Clinton, Spain’s Queen Sofia, Aline Chretien, the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Former Philippine President Corazon Aqui**, British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, Belgium’s Queen Fabiola and New Zealand’s Minister of Health Bill Heath.
She was also granted a state funeral by the Indian government in gratitude for her services to the poor of all religions in India. The Indian military gave her a guard of ho**ur, and her coffin was carried from the church on the shoulders of eight military ******rs, escorted by a**ther contingent of soldiers in red turbans and preceded by a military band. The then Indian Premier IK Gujral had an**unced a day of mourning.
Mother Teresa funeral details:
In its September 13, 1997 report, the CNN had stated: “Bible readings during the Mass were in Bengali, the language of Calcutta, and Hindi, the national language of India. Mother Teresa’s coffin — kept open so mourners could see her face — was set on a dais in the stadium, draped in the green, white and saffron tricolour flag of her adopted homeland. Surrounded by queens, cardinals and presidents — but especially by the poor and unfortunate whom she devoted her life to loving and helping — Mother Teresa was lauded at her funeral Mass Saturday as “God’s gift to Calcutta and the world.” About 15,000 people attended the service at Netaji indoor stadium in the teeming city where, five decades ago, Mother Teresa began her hands-on ministry to the poorest of the poor. Dignitaries from more than 23 countries were on hand for the Mass. But at the insistence of her religious order, the Missionaries of Charity, about half of the seats in the stadium were reserved for those unfortunate people Mother Teresa served during her life, who referred to her affectionately and simply, as “Mother.”
It had maintained: “Earlier, escorted by a military ho**ur guard, Mother Teresa’s body solemnly made its way through the streets of Calcutta to the stadium. People from all walks of life crowded along both sides of the 5 kilometre (3.1 mile) procession route, which took the body from St Thomas Church, where she had been lying in state for the past week. In this predominately Hindu city, a crowd of perhaps as many as a million people turned out to pay their final respects to the diminutive Roman Catholic nun. In ho**ur of her lifetime of devotion to India’s poor, Mother Teresa was given a state funeral, an ho**ur **rmally reserved for major political figures and heads of state. She was carried from the church on the shoulders of eight military ******rs, escorted by a**ther contingent of soldiers in red turbans and preceded by a military band. Her body was then placed on the same gun carriage that took revered Indian revolutionary figure Mahatma Gandhi to his funeral pyre in 1948.”
The CNN had held: “The carriage, pulled by a military truck, was festooned with garlands of jasmine. Mourners showered the coffin with flower petals from ******* and rooftops and hailed her with waves as the body went by.”
About 15 minutes into the procession, crowds started to push into the street, trying to touch the coffin as police surrounding it tried to keep mourners back.
The American channel had quoted Cardinal Angelo Soda**, the Vatican’s secretary of state, who was Pope John Paul II’s personal representative at the service, as saying: “She taught the world this lesson — it is more blessed to give than to receive.”
The reputed American media house had reported: “The funeral Mass was said in English by Soda**, who hailed Mother Teresa’s “extraordinary spiritual vision” and said she “lit a flame of love” that people should sustain in her memory. In his homily, Soda** directly addressed criticism from some quarters that despite her devotion to the poor, Mother Teresa accepted poverty and did **t do e**ugh to fight its causes. “Mother Teresa was aware of this criticism,” he said. “She would shrug as if saying, ‘While you go on discussing causes and explanations, I will kneel beside the poorest of the poor and attend to their needs.’”
Mother Teresa’s life, achievements and charitable works:
Born as Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in the Yugoslavian city of Skopje (modern day Macedonia), Mother Teresa (1910-1997) had founded the Missionary of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which had consisted of over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries by 2012 or 15 years after her death.
They run hospices, dispensaries, soup kitchens, mobile clinics and homes for people with HIV/AIDA, leprosy and tuberculosis, besides operating orphanages and schools for the needy.
Her birth place Skopje was part of the Ottoman Empire until 1912, when it became a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Her family continued to live in Skopje until 1934, when they moved to Tirana in Albania.
The “Vatican News” had one quoted her saying: “By blood, I am an Albanian. By citizenship, I am an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.”
Mother Teresa was the recipient of numerous ho**urs, including the 1979 **bel Peace Prize.
However, she had refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to laureates, and asked that the $192,000 funds be given to the poor in India.
In October 2003, she was beatified as “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.”
In December 2015, Pope Francis had paved the way for her to be recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Mother Teresa had first been recognised by the Indian government more than a third of a century earlier when she was awarded the “Padma Shri” in 1962 and the “Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding” in 1969.
In 1962, Mother Teresa received the Philippines-based “Ramon Magasaysay Award” for International Understanding, given for work in South or East Asia.
In 1971, Pope Pail IV had awarded her the first Pope John Paul XXIII Peace Prize, commending her for her work with the poor, display of Christian charity and efforts for peace.
She later received the “Pacem in Terris Award” in 1976. This is a Catholic peace award which has been given annually since 1964 by the Davenport Catholic Interracial Council based in the US state of Iowa.
She continued to receive major Indian awards in subsequent years, including India’s highest civilian award, the “Bharat Ratna” in 1980.
She was appointed an ho**rary Companion of the Order of Australia in 1982 for service to the community of Australia and humanity at large.
The United Kingdom and the United States each repeatedly granted awards, culminating in the Order of Merit in 1983 and ho**rary citizenship of the United States in 1996.
Then, she was bestowed with Haiti’s Legion of Ho**ur.
Mother Teresa’s Albanian homeland granted her the Golden Ho**ur of the Nation in 1994.
Numerous Indian and Western universities had also granted her ho**rary degrees.
On August 28, 2010, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of her birth, the government of India issued a special 5 rupee coin, being the sum she first arrived in India with.
During her lifetime, she was both praised and criticised for her anti-abortion views though.
(References: The December 18, 2015 reports of AFP and the Guardian, the September 4, 2015 report of the FOX News, the website of the “Feminists for Life of America,” the May 30, 2007 report of the Vatican News Service, the August 28, 2010 edition of the Times of India, the August 24, 2007 edition of the Time magazine, the official **bel Prize website, Anne Sebba’s 1997 book “Mother Teresa” and Gezmin Alpion’s 2007 book “Mother Teresa: saint or celebrity?”)
Like Abdus Sattar Edhi, Mother Teresa too had lost her father early.
Her father, who was involved in the politics of the Albanian community in Macedonia, had died in 1919 when she was eight years old.
She arrived in India in 1929, at started teaching at Calcutta’s the Loreto convent school in 1937. Increasingly disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta and then the havoc played by the 1943 Bengal Famine, Mother Teresa began her missionary work with the poor in 1948.
Clad in a simple white cotton sari decorated with a blue border, Mother Teresa then adopted Indian citizenship and started running a school in Calcutta for the destitute and starving. Her efforts quickly caught the attention of Indian officials, including the then Prime Minister, who expressed his appreciation.
She had to resort to begging for food and supplies initially.
In October 1950, Teresa received Vatican’s permission to start the diocesan congregation that would become the Missionaries of Charity in years to come. She had founded the Missionaries of Charity Brothers in 1963 and branch of the Sisters had followed in 1976. It began as a small congregation with 13 members in Calcutta.
At the time of her death in 1997, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, and an associated brotherhood of 300 members, operating 610 missions in 123 countries.
By 2007, the Missionaries of Charity numbered approximately 450 brothers and 5,000 sisters worldwide.
The Missionaries of Charity were also aided by co-workers, who numbered over one million by the 1990s.
(References: USA Today, Encyclopedia Britannica and Kathryn Spink’s book “Mother Teresa: a complete authorized biography)
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