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Kolkata:
Mass prayers, film festivals, cultural programmes and exhibitions
will mark the birth centenary celebrations of Mother Teresa Thursday
in Kolkata, the epicentre of the nun's work among the poor, old,
infirm and the dying.
The day will start with a holy mass and inauguration at Mother
House, the global headquarters of the congregation Missionaries of
Charity founded by the Albania-born Nobel laureate who took up
Indian citizenship.
An exhibition on the life, spirituality and message of Mother Teresa
will be opened at the Mother House Thursday morning. A four-day film
festival begins at the cultural complex Nandan.
Organised jointly by the World Catholic Association for
Communication, Archdiocese of Calcutta, the Missonaries of Charity
in collaboration with the West Bengal Film Centre, the festival will
screen feature films, documentaries on the Mother's life and works
till Aug 29.
Among the movies are "Mother Teresa" (by Ann and Jeanette Petrie),
the most authentic documentary ever made on her with commentary by
Sir Richard Attenborough, and the three-hour feature film "Mother
Teresa" made by Lux Vide on Indian soil.
The internationally acclaimed biopic "Mother Teresa and Her World"
by Japanese filmmaker Shigeki Chiba - one of the earliest motion
pictures ever made on the nun in 1979 - and Dominique Lapierre's
feaure film "In the Name of God's Poor" starring Charlie Chaplin's
daughter Geraldine Chaplin as Mother Teresa will be among the chosen
movies.
An interactive website containing a comprehensive list of all the
programmes to be organsied as part of the centenary celebrations,
slated to continue through the year, will also be inaugurated
Thursday.
A quiz show on the Mother will be hosted by Derek O Brian later this
month, while a cultural programme will be organised at Rabindra
Sadan in the second week of September.
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia Aug 26, 1910, Mother
Teresa left her parental home at 18, and joined the Sisters of
Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India.
She arrived in Kolkata in 1929 years later she took Indian
citizenship and left the convent with the church's nod to serve the
poor and the ailing.
She set up Missionaries of Charity in 1950 at 14, Creek Lane, but
shifted to the Mother House in 1953 as her order expanded.
Mother was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1979 and given India's
highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian
work. The Missionaries of Charity now comprises over 4,500 sisters
and is active in 133 countries.
It runs homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It
also conducts children's and family counselling programmes and runs
orphanages and schools.
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