A frequent visitor to Norristown passed away last week in India. Sister Nirmala Joshi, MC, who succeeded Mother Teresa as head of the Missionaries of Charity, died in Kolkata. She was 81 years old.

Sister Nirmala speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kolkata, India, in this September 1, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/Files KOLKATA (Reuters) - Sister Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Nobel ...

KOLKATA, India – The Indian nun who replaced Mother Theresa as head of the Missionaries of Charity has died. She was 81. The charity said Sister Nirmala Joshi's health had been declining in recent ...

Sister Nirmala Joshi, the Indian nun who followed Mother Teresa as head of the Missionaries of Charity caring for country’s poor, died Tuesday at the age of 81, reports The New York Times. The Kolkata ...

India’s prime minister tweets his ‘deepest condolences,’ as a collection of leading Church and political officials were present yesterday at the nun’s funeral service in Kolkata. Missionaries of ...

KOLKATA, India — The Indian nun who replaced Mother Teresa as head of the Missionaries of Charity died Tuesday, the organization said. Sister Nirmala Joshi was 81. Her health had been declining in ...

KOLKATA (Reuters) – Sister Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Nobel laureate Mother Teresa as the head of her Missionaries of Charity and expanded the movement overseas, died on Tuesday aged 80. After ...

Sister Nirmala Joshi met today with the leader of the violence-torn Indian state of Orissa. Sister Nirmala, who succeeded Blessed Teresa of Calcutta in 1997 as superior general of the Missionaries of ...

KOLKATA, India, June 23 (UPI) --Mother Teresa's successor in the organization Missionaries of Charity, Sister Nirmala Joshi, died Monday at age 81. Joshi had been suffering from heart problems before ...

New Delhi, Jun 23 (EFE).New Delhi, Jun 23 (EFE). — Sister Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Mother Teresa as the head of the Missionaries of Charity, died of heart attack Tuesday at the age of 81 in the ...

Sister Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Mother Teresa as head of her Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, died on Tuesday at the age of 81, church officials said. Joshi had been ...