Mother Teresa: Founding a new religious order
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Poverty and starvation in India
- A change of vocation
- The new work
- New religious order
- Aid for the dying In Calcutta
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
Abstract
mother teresa came to India as a missionary sister to help the poor, but ended up teaching girls from wealthy families in a school in Calcutta. World War II and the subsequent independence of India created a crisis situation that led mother teresa to abandon her former work and found a new religious order of sisters specifically to work with the poor. This paper will trace the events and inspiration that led her to take such an unusual step, and look at the opposition she faced in making that choice.
Poverty and Starvation in India
There had always been poverty in India during the time of the British Raj, but things got much worse with the outbreak of World War II. As a British possession India was an official enemy of the Axis powers. This meant that when the Japanese occupied Burma in 1943 they cut off the rice supply to Bengal. Meanwhile floods and a cyclone in 1942 had destroyed most of the crops in Bengal, and things became desperate in India. Famine struck and refugees from the countryside poured into the cities. British mismanagement of the food supplies made things worse. Some British residents, especially the women, did what they could to help the people. Houses were filled with refugees and food was distributed, but millions died in spite of everything that could be done.
Poverty and Starvation in India
There had always been poverty in India during the time of the British Raj, but things got much worse with the outbreak of World War II. As a British possession India was an official enemy of the Axis powers. This meant that when the Japanese occupied Burma in 1943 they cut off the rice supply to Bengal. Meanwhile floods and a cyclone in 1942 had destroyed most of the crops in Bengal, and things became desperate in India. Famine struck and refugees from the countryside poured into the cities. British mismanagement of the food supplies made things worse. Some British residents, especially the women, did what they could to help the people. Houses were filled with refugees and food was distributed, but millions died in spite of everything that could be done.
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