PART 17: Antichrists revealed – Delibrate rebellion of the antichrist towards Christ

Gandhiji Prem Nivas leprosy centreThe Gandhiji Prem Nivas, a leprosy centre established by Mother Teresa in 1958 and run by the Missionaries of Charity in Titagarh, India.(more)

Some of the order’s earliest efforts were to open schools, medical dispensaries, and food distribution centres. In the 1950s many of the local hospitals in Kolkata could not accept poor people who were deemed to be beyond medical help; such destitute people were sometimes left to die in the streets if their families were unable to care for them. In 1952 Mother Teresa established Nirmal Hriday (“Home for the Pure of Heart”), a hospice where the terminally ill could die with dignity; her order also opened numerous centres serving the blind, the aged, and the disabled. Under Mother Teresa’s guidance, the Missionaries of Charity built a leper colony, called Shanti Nagar (“Town of Peace”), near Asansol, India. By the time of her death, in 1997, the order included hundreds of centres in more than 90 countries and was supported by religious sisters and thousands of lay workers and volunteers.

The Missionaries of Charity have been widely celebrated for their compassion and service to the poor. Indeed, Mother Teresa was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace and was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 2016. The order is not above criticism, however, and a number of complaints and accusations have been lodged. Although the Missionaries of Charity claim to not impose their faith on others, the sisters in India have been accused of emotionally exploiting vulnerable people and covertly baptizing dying Hindus or Muslims in their care. There have also been complaints about poor quality or even dangerous medical care rendered in some of their facilities, sometimes given by people with little or no medical training. Despite the evidence that access to birth control reduces poverty rates, the Missionaries of Charity adhere to the Roman Catholic Church’s teachings and thus do not condone abortion and contraception