Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (1910–1997), born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje, was a Catholic nun and missionary who devoted her life to serving the poorest of the poor. At eighteen she joined the Sisters of Loreto and was sent to India, where she taught for many years at a school in Calcutta. On a train journey to Darjeeling in 1946 she experienced what she called a "call within a call" to leave the convent and live among the poor. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity, which opened homes for the dying, orphanages and clinics for people with leprosy, and grew to serve in more than a hundred countries. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. In 2016 the Catholic Church canonized her as St. Teresa of Calcutta, and she is remembered for her humble, tireless love for every person.
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Great Christian Missionaries
St. Paul carried the Christian message across the Roman world on his missionary journeys. Centuries later, David Livingstone combined mission work with exploration in southern and central Africa, and Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission. Albert Schweitzer established a hospital at Lambaréné in present-day Gabon, and Mother Teresa devoted her life to the poor of Calcutta.
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War. Albert Schweitzer was honored for his philosophy of reverence for life and his medical work in Africa, Martin Luther King Jr. for leading the nonviolent struggle for civil rights, and Mother Teresa for her service to the poorest of the poor in Calcutta.
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