Missionaries of Charity give life, love with adoptions in India

Published: 2007-10-03

CALCUTTA, India (CNS) -- Life changed for Sonali and Sanjib Dutta after the Hindu couple adopted a girl with the help of the Missionaries of Charity after 12 years of marriage without a child. Dutta, a pharmaceutical salesman in Calcutta, said his wife "spends all her time looking after our daughter, and life is so cheerful now." Two of his friends also adopted baby girls from the Missionaries of Charity, he told Catholic News Service in mid September. The Duttas adopted their daughter in 2006. "It is a crime to abort a child. They do not know the craving the childless people have," Dutta said. Pointing to the children running around the "Sishu Bhavan," or Children's House, run by the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, Sister Marian said the children "are fruits of the Mother's (Mother Teresa's) crusade against abortion." Sister Marian is the coordinator of adoption services for the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Since the first Sishu Bhavan was set up by Mother Teresa in 1955, the Missionaries of Charity have helped with more than 6,500 adoptions.

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