India refuses to renew foreign funding OK to charity; religious protests

FILE PHOTO: People attend mass as members of India's Christian community celebrate Christmas eve in Mumbai, India, December 24, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The Indian government on Monday "refused" to renew a permission that is vital for Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity (MoC) to be able to secure foreign funds, cutting off a key source the charity has depended on to run its programs for the impoverished.

Nobel-laureate Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun who died in 1997, founded the MoC in 1950. The charity has more than 3,000 nuns worldwide who run hospices, community kitchens, schools, leper colonies and homes for abandoned children.