Mother Teresa’s charity stops adoptions in India because rules are “contrary to their Christian values”

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Seventeen-month-old Anirban Mukherjee playfully touches his mother’s face with his fingers at Shishu Bhavan, the Missionaries of Charity children’s home in Kolkata, India.

Anirban’s parents brought him to visit and play with his old housemates. He was adopted in April 2015 by Abhay and Sampa Mukherjee, a childless couple from Asansol, an industrial township in West Bengal. Anirban’s biological mother could not afford to pay for his postnatal treatment, so just a few weeks after his birth, she abandoned him. Shishu Bhavan became his home, where he was treated for severe malnourishment until he was put up for adoption, Catholic News Service reported.

The Mukherjees were unable to conceive and called Anirban “the gift from the saint of Kolkata, Mother Teresa.”

“It is good that while visiting here, Anirban gets to meet his friends, who are like family.”

Although the sisters continue to keep and care for abandoned, destitute and sick children, they have stopped putting children up for adoption. The nuns said they made the decision because new government rules were “contrary to our Christian values.”

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