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Teresa, Mother

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Teresa, Mother (1910–1997), Catholic missionary in India and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Serbia (now Macedonia). In 1928... Read more

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Mother Teresa

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For her work among the poor and dying of India, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979.Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Roman Catholic nun who founded the only Catholi... Read more

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Mother Teresa

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On August 27, 1910, a child named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born at Skopje, Macedonia. Agnes was also known as the famous Mother Teresa. Throughout her life, she had helped others and lived a poor ... Read more

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For Mother Teresa, a profound darkness

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Mother Teresa's hidden faith struggle, laid bare in a new book that shows she felt alone and separated from God, is forcing a re-examination of one of the world's best known religious figures.The d... Read more

10 years later, Mother Teresa remembered

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The destitute and the diseased still gather outside Mother Teresa's clinics in this sprawling city in eastern India, where the nun known simply as "Mother" dedicated her life to the poorest of the ... Read more

Nuns mark Mother Teresa's birthday

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Recent revelations about the crisis of faith suffered by Mother Teresa will not hamper her path to sainthood, her successor said Sunday at a ceremony to commemorate the 97th anniversary of her birt... Read more

10 years later, Mother Teresa remembered

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Devotees held Roman Catholic Masses, candle processions and interfaith prayers Wednesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa, who dedicated her life to serving the poorest of... Read more

Mass, candle light processions mark Mother Teresa's death anniversary

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Roman Catholic Masses, candle processions and interfaith prayer Wednesday marked the 10th anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa, who dedicated her life to serving the poorest of the poor in thi... Read more

Prayers held in Kolkata on Mother Teresa's death anniversary

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New Delhi (dpa) - Prayers were held at the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata Wednesday to pay homage to Mother Teresa on the ... Read more

"Miracle" to pave way for Mother Teresa's sainthood

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Rome (dpa) - Mother Teresa is set to move significantly closer to sainthood following what is described as the miraculous disappearance of a 13-millimetre long stone, or gro... Read more

Becky Simpson, the Mother Teresa of Appalachia

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Becky Simpson’s handiwork can be seen all along the homes that line the curving, twisting ribbon of asphalt known as Highway 421 in eastern Kentucky. “We put a new roof on that house,&#... Read more

Films on Mother Teresa to be screened in Tokyo on memorial

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A pair of U.S. documentary films on the life of Mother Teresa will be shown at a public theater in Tokyo as a double-feature from Sept. 15 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of her death. ... Read more

Mass, candle light processions mark 10-year anniversary of Mother Teresa's death

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