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H.RES.1615 -- Whereas Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia; (Introduced in House - IH) HRES 1615 IH111th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 1615 Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth, and honoring the life and legacy, of Mother Teresa. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 14, 2010 Mr. FORTENBERRY submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs RESOLUTION Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth, and honoring the life and legacy, of Mother Teresa. Whereas Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in...

A court in India has sentenced to death seven men convicted of attacking the American cultural centre in Calcutta in January 2002. Those convicted include Aftab Ahmed Ansari, who the judge said had planned the attack in which five policemen were killed and nearly 20 others injured. Two other men were acquitted for lack of evidence. The attack heightened tensions in South Asia, coming just weeks after a bloody raid on India's parliament. India accused Pakistan of having a link to both attacks which was strongly denied by Islamabad. Although India still supports the death penalty it is rarely carried...

Which is preferable; 1. The advantages of easily climbing the social ladder in a poor nation (like cab drivers of India do) 2. The disadvantages of being poor and sticking to the device of "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope" (like certain Mexican Americans do) 3. The predictability of being an average citizen going to an average mall in an average PC corner of the World (like most Stockholmers enjoy doing) I, sincerely, recommend viewing the clips linked to below.

NEW DELHI: A Pakistan-bound cargo vessel carrying a "huge quantity" of explosives and other weapons has been detained by the authorities at a harbour in eastern India, police said on Saturday. The vessel was heading for the Pakistani port city of Karachi and was detained Friday on an intelligence tip-off at Diamond Harbour, 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of Kolkata, capital of the West Bengal state, police said. "The Indian Coast Guard and navy personnel have found a huge quantity of explosives, rocket launchers, anti-aircraft guns and some bombs in two large containers," West Bengal police director general Bhupinder Singh...

And I wish that was all the spitter did in this one 16 minute segment. But it’s not. It’s just I couldn’t squeeze it all into one headline. Plus bonus video: Matthews and friends connect protesting seniors with the man arrested for threatening to kill Senator Patty Murray. I watch so you don’t have to. Matthews very upset tonight at what he sees is an America out of control. Why, he wonders are seniors of all people protesting government health care. Why he says, imagine a wold without progressives. It would be positively … third world? Dying in the streets.

SNIPPET: "The editor and publisher of a top English-language Indian daily have been arrested on charges of "hurting the religious feelings" of Muslims. The Statesman's editor Ravindra Kumar and publisher Anand Sinha were detained in Calcutta after complaints." SNIPPET: "The article was entitled: "Why should I respect these oppressive religions?" It concerns the erosion of the right to criticise religions."

SRINAGAR, India – One of the two Indian men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said Saturday, demanding his release. The arrests, announced in the eastern city of Calcutta, were the first since the bloody siege ended.

New Dehli, Sep 3, 2008 / 07:08 pm (CNA).- Contrary to an earlier report by Fides, the outbreak of anti-Christian violence in India is not lessening. Some Christian converts victimized by extremist Hindu attacks in the Indian state of Orissa are now being forced to return to Hinduism and attack their Christian churches. The violence has prompted Sister Nirmala, head of the Missionaries of Charity, to urge the country to “put down the weapon of hatred and violence and put on the armor of love.”As of Monday, it was reported that a church was destroyed by fire in Mondasore,...

Cambridge, Mass. ONE morning in January 1997, I walked into my office at a nonprofit group here after a visit to my hometown, Calcutta. A very senior colleague, whom I would have, until then, characterized as being the “sensitive” sort, greeted me: “Welcome back. And how is everyone in Calcutta — still starving and being looked after by Mother Teresa?” At first I thought this might be a bad attempt at humor, but I soon realized that my colleague was seriously inquiring about my city’s suffering humanity and its ministering angel — the only images Calcutta evoked for him and...

  Jim ToweyMother Teresa 'simply loved life' Even though she carried the burden of celebrity, she had the wisdom to choose 'the better part' Many people were blessed to be friends or colleagues of Mother Teresa, who had a permanent impact on their lives. Our Sunday Visitor asked two of these fortunate people to reflect upon what made this simple sister so special.It has been 10 years since Mother Teresa went home to God. Her beatification in October 2003 placed her one miracle away from canonization. As with any saint, there is a danger of turning Mother Teresa into a...

CALCUTTA, India - When his chickens started disappearing a few weeks ago, a farmer in eastern India figured dogs or jackals were to blame — until he discovered his calf making a meal of his poultry.

Address of Mother Teresa of Calcutta to the Supreme Convention in New York City when she received the first Knights of Columbus Gaudium et Spes Award in 1992 Let us thank God for his great love in giving us this beautiful opportunity to thank the Knights of Columbus for all the good things they have done for the people of God. I accepted to come, and to accept out of sheer gratitude, for they have done so much for our congregation and for our poor. We have no other way of showing our gratitude to them, only by our...

'Clive of India's' tortoise dies Adwaita's shell will be carbon-dated to prove his age A tortoise that once belonged to British colonial general Clive of India in the 18th Century has died in a zoo in Calcutta. Adwaita, "the only one" in Bengali, was found dead by keepers in Alipore Zoo on Wednesday. His shell cracked some months ago and a wound had developed. West Bengal officials said records showed Adwaita was at least 150 years old but other evidence pointed to 250. The shell of Adwaita, an Aldabra tortoise, will now be carbon-dated. Forestry minister in the West...

Security has been beefed up in and around the US Consulate and American Center after a terror alert from the US embassy in New Delhi. "We are taking all measures though we are always on high alert to protect the US consulate and American Center buildings besides other consulates," said Police Commissioner Prasun Mukherjee. US consulate sources said they were cooperating with the police. "We are working in close cooperation with the Kolkata Police," a consulate spokesman said on Wednesday. The US embassy on Tuesday warned American citizens of a "possible threat" of terror attacks, including suicide car bombings, against...

Calcutta's famous hand-pulled rickshaws will soon be banned, according to the chief minister of the Indian state of West Bengal. The rickshaws had long been considered "inhuman" and did not exist anywhere else, Buddhadev Bhattacharya said. The rickshaw, immortalised as a living symbol of Calcutta in films such as City of Joy, will be phased out in four to five months. The hand-pulled rickshaw came from China in the 19th century. Mr Bhattacharya said: "We have taken a policy decision to take the hand-drawn rickshaw off the roads of Calcutta on humanitarian grounds. "Nowhere else in the world does this...

THE dusty Berhampur Central jail, 120 miles north of Calcutta, provided the setting for a bizarre wedding last week between a rapist and his victim. The victim faced a life as an outcast, ostracised and stigmatised by Indian society for being on the receiving end of a violent sexual crime. But if her assailant married her, the shame would be lifted in the eyes of the local Muslim community. On the order of the court in Berhampur, Ahammad Shaikh, 30, tied the knot with Sabina Khatoon, 18, inside the local prison where he is serving his sentence. Shaikh kidnapped Khatoon...

KOLKATA: Tuesday morning was the first time in his life that Dhananjoy Chatterjee really knew he would die at the end of a rope. It was the day's newspapers that shattered what little hopes he nursed of escaping the hangman's death squeeze. No, he did not cry. But he showed he finally knew that his time was up; that he would have to pay with his life for a crime which shook even weather-beaten policemen and doctors. It was not Chatterjee's fault if he had started believing that he would get away with a natural death. The state government sat...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Rumors that Pope John Paul II recently considered proclaiming Mother Teresa of Calcutta a saint without first beatifying her did not surprise people who know of the pope's affection and esteem for the small, sari-clad nun. But even more, the rumors were a sign of encouragement to experts pushing for a change in the sainthood process. Beatifications have become almost meaningless, several Vatican officials told Catholic News Service in early September. The church either should return to the pre-1971 practice of having a cardinal, not the pope, preside over the ceremony, or eliminate that stage of...

Panicked medical staff fail to report on duty Press Trust of India Kolkata, April 29 About 30 per cent of doctors and para-medical staff at the state-run Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH), earmarked for SARS cases, did not report to work on Tuesday for the scare of contracting the deadly corona virus after a patient was declared SARS positive yesterday. Panic spread among the staff and visitors last evening after serological reports from Pune-based National Institute of Virology confirmed Radheshyam Gupta, a resident of Tangra area, as the city's second SARS victim on his return from Bankok. Staff shortage at the...

A 42-year-old man in Kolkata on Sunday tested positive for SARS taking the number of infected people in the country to seven even as pathological results of 13 more suspected cases in six states were awaited.The textile engineer contracted SARS during a recent trip to China and a few other Southeast Asian countries between March 28 and April 14.After returning to Kolkata, he took ill and was admitted to a private hospital. He was allowed to go home after a few days.But he was readmitted following high fever and chest congestion. The nursing home then referred him to a specialty...

Pope credits Mother Teresa with miracle December 21, 2002BY NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY--Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who spent much of her life caring for the poor of Calcutta's slums, moved a step closer to sainthood Friday when Pope John Paul II approved a miracle credited to her intercession. With the miracle, Mother Teresa will be beatified in a ceremony scheduled for Oct. 19 in Rome, her order said. The date is the Catholic Church's Mission Sunday, and the Sunday closest to the 25th anniversary of John Paul's election as pope. John Paul, who has elevated more than 460...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/7/02 - Irbil, Yemen, Limburg, Kabul, Bagram, Baghdad, Calcutta BREAKING: Irbil, Iraq, Kurdistan government, BREAKING: Ramallah, Nefarious Red Cross, BREAKING: Darwin visits Tianjin, China BREAKING: Yemen, Limburg explosion, Kabul, Bagram, Baghdad, Calcutta, Tarpan ========= Kabul ========= In Kabul, freed by the USA, girls raise their hands in English class. In Kabul, downtown. In Kabul, at the local bank. In Kabul, sacks of dry leaves to burn for fire are sought. In Kabul, SF stand guard. ========= Bagram ========= In Bagram, important workers in the kitchen feed 7000 heroes. In southeastern Afghanistan, a...