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Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity are under investigation by the Indian government over allegations of sale of babies for adoption.
Authorities were invited to inspect all organization-run childcare centers because a nun and an employee were arrested earlier this month for allegedly selling a baby in the state of Jharkhand, reported the BBC. The center provides shelter for single pregnant women.
According to a statement from the Department of Women and Child Protection of India, he "instructed the states to have the care homes run by the Missionaries of Charity inspected immediately in any the country. The Missionaries of Charity described the news of the arrest as "shocking" and said the incident was "against our moral conviction". The charity said it would investigate the episode as well.
"We will take all necessary precautions once again, if that happened," Sunita Kumar of the Missionaries of Charity told the BBC.
Adoption is a notoriously slow process in India, and this has helped fuel the rampant illegal adoption across the country. According to the National Commission for the Protection of the Rights of the Child, India has more than 230,000 children in official and unofficial shelters. However, some estimates of the number of orphans in the country are as high as 30 million, Guardian reports.
The Missionaries of Charity facilitated adoptions but in 2015 the Catholic Order broke adoptions rather than adoptions. comply with an Indian law that facilitates the process for divorced and single people.
Missionaries of Charities was founded in 1950 by the nun and missionary Mother Teresa, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for helping the sick and the poor. She died in 1997 and was made Saint Teresa of Calcutta by Pope Francis in 2016.
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