Message from discussion Mother Teresa's 'miracle' challenged - Re: VATICAN CARDINALS RECOGNIZE MOTHER TERESA'S MIRACLE

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This may delay all sorts of things,
including movies about her.

Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti

In article <3D9E8C42.7070...@europe.com>, 
 aryanviking <aryanvik...@europe.com> posted:
>   CLAIMS RATIONALLY CHALLENGED!
> 
> BBC
> Friday, 4 October, 2002, 11:59 GMT 12:59 UK
> 
> Mother Teresa's 'miracle' challenged
> 
> By Subir Bhaumik
> BBC correspondent in Calcutta
> 
> A miracle attributed to Mother Teresa has been challenged in the Indian 
> state of West Bengal. A rationalist group in the state says a woman 
> reportedly cured of cancer by placing a photograph of the nun on her 
> stomach had subsequently received treatment in government hospitals.
> 
> Mother Teresa: Revered by many
> 
> Doctors who treated the woman, Monica Besra, say she was in pain several 
> years after Mother Teresa died.
> Vatican officials earlier this week capproved the miracle, and said this 
> would strengthen her case for sainthood.
> For several years Prabir Ghosh, general secretary of the Indian 
> Rationalist and Scientific Thinking Association, has challenged Hindu 
> "godmen" and exposed their miracles as what he describes as cheap 
> hypnotic tricks better performed by magicians.
> 
> Now he is challenging the claim of the Missionaries of Charity, who say 
> a photograph of their founder, Mother Teresa, when placed over the 
> stomach of 30-year-old Monica Besra, cured her of a tumour.
> 
> Undue publicity
> 
> Mr Ghosh described the claim as bogus and typical of the process of cult 
> building in all religious orders.
> He says Mother Teresa could be considered for sainthood for her
> services to the poor, adding that it was an insult to her legacy to 
> bestow her sainthood on false claims of miracles.
> 
> Mr Ghosh says several doctors have reported to the West Bengal 
> government that Ms Besra continued to receive treatment long after 
> Mother Teresa died.
> He said Ms Besra was admitted to hospital with chronic headaches and
> severe abdominal pain at least a year after Mother Teresa's death. The 
> doctors say that if the story of the miracle gets what they describe as 
> undue publicity, illiterate and poor villagers may stop taking medical 
> treatment for their maladies and seek miracle cures
> ..
> Mr Ghosh says his association, which seeks to promote rational and
> scientific thinking in India, would expect the West Bengal Government
> to take legal action against the Missionaries of Charity.When contacted, 
> the Missionaries of Charity did not react to the charge.
> 
> 
> 
> Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> 
> > In article <upoocoor9ih...@corp.supernews.com>, 
> >  "harmony" <a...@hotmail.com> posted:
> >  
> > 
> >>Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote in message
> >>news:Bharat-1009.20021002@news.mantra.com...
> >>
> >>>Vatican cardinals recognize Mother Teresa's miracle
> >>>
> >>>Rediff On The Net
> >>>Tuesday, October 1, 2002
> >>>
> >>>The beatification of Mother Teresa is a certainty now,
> >>>with the cardinals and bishops of the Vatican formally
> >>>recognising as genuine a miracle attributed to Kolkata's
> >>>'saint of the gutters'.
> >>>
> >>>The Congregation for the Causes of the Saints recognized
> >>>at its meeting on Tuesday the healing of an Indian
> >>>woman's abdominal tumour as a miracle attributable to the
> >>>Indian nun of Albanian origin.
> >>>
> > 
> >>She was daughter of god, and worked miracles. She died for the sins of
> >>others.
> >>Some say they have seen her walking on the water.
> >>a new religion is coming in India: Terreism.
> >>Goal of new religion:  separation of bengal and NE region from India.
> >>
> > 
> > These missionaries need to be expelled from Bharat, as they have
> > been from Israel, Russia and other countries.  Many of them use
> > force to convert people.
> > 
> > Jai Maharaj
> > http://www.mantra.com/jai
> > Om Shanti
> >