Since coming to power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has cracked down on hundreds of NGOs
Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, at a hospice for the destitute and dying in Kolkata, India, in 1969.ndia’s government has barred the Missionaries of Charity, the Catholic religious order and philanthropic organization started by
, from accessing foreign donations for not meeting eligibility conditions under local laws, the federal Home Ministry said.in 1950, has its headquarters in the eastern city of Kolkata and works with some of the country’s most poor and destitute people. The group’s application to renew its license to continue getting foreign funds under India’s Foreign Contribution Regulation Act “was refused on 25 Dec. 2021 for not meeting the eligibility conditions,” the ministry said in a statement Monday. “No request / revision application has been received from Missionaries of Charity for review of this refusal of renewal.”
The Christian charity confirmed in a statement that the renewal of its FCRA application hasn’t been approved and that it has asked its centers not to operate foreign contribution accounts until the matter is resolved. The ministry’s statement gave no details on what rules the group had flouted.
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