The congregation's first house outside India was in Venezuela, others followed in Rome and Tanzania and worldwide. The Congregation started to grow rapidly, with new homes opening all over the globe. In 1965, by granting a Decree of Praise, Pope Paul VI granted Mother Teresa's request to expand her congregation to other countries. In 1963, Brother Andrew (formerly Ian Travers-Ballan) founded the Missionary Brothers of Charity in Australia along with Mother Teresa. They have 19 homes in Kolkata (Calcutta) alone which include homes for women, orphaned children and homes for the dying a school for street children, and a leper colony. The sisters run orphanages, homes for those dying of AIDS, charity centres worldwide, and care for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, Europe and Australia. Their mission was to care for (in Mother Teresa's words) "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." It began as a small community with 12 members in Calcutta (now Kolkata), and in 2020 had 5,167 members serving in 139 countries in 760 homes, with 244 of these homes in India. On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa and the small community formed by her former pupils was labelled as the Diocesan Congregation of the Calcutta Diocese, and thus received the permission from the Diocese of Calcutta to identify as a Catholic organization. Missionaries of Charity's Mother House (Headquarters) in Kolkata These services are provided, without charge, to people regardless of their religion or social status. They have schools that are run by volunteers to teach abandoned street children and run soup kitchens as well as other services according to the community needs. Missionaries care for those who include refugees, former prostitutes, the mentally ill, sick children, abandoned children, lepers, people with AIDS, the aged, and convalescent.
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A member of the congregation must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, and the fourth vow, to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor." Today, the order consists of both contemplative and active branches in several countries. Members of the order designate their affiliation using the order's initials, "M.C.". In 2020, it consisted of 5,167 religious sisters.
The Missionaries of Charity ( Latin: Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate) is a Catholic ( Latin Church) religious congregation established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Sisters belonging to Missionaries of Charity in their attire of traditional white sari with blue border.
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