NEW DELHI — India has blocked a charity founded by Mother Teresa from accepting foreign donations for its humanitarian work.
It was not made clear why the government refused on Monday to renew the license of the organization, the Missionaries of Charity, under the country’s Foreign Contribution Regulation Act. The group can appeal, but for now, a major source of funding has been cut off.
The news came around a tense Christmas time, when churches have been vandalized and celebrations interrupted by hundreds of right-wing Hindus across the country.
The rise in attacks on Christians, who make up about 2 percent of India’s population, is part of a broader shift in which religious minorities feel less safe. Anti-Christian vigilantes are sweeping through villages, storming churches, burning Christian literature, attacking schools and assaulting worshipers. Right-wing Hindus have confronted Muslims during Friday prayers in the northern state of Haryana in recent months.
At a conference ...