“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” These words, spoken by St. Teresa of Calcutta, known more familiarly as Mother Teresa, are typical of the petite ...

St. Teresa of Calcutta, or "Mother Teresa," is often held up as a symbol of selflessness and extreme devotion to charity. As the founder of the Missionaries of Charity and recipient of numerous awards ...

In 1979 the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Mother Teresa. The Committee considered it right and appropriate to choose Mother Teresa of Calcutta as their person, because she ...

I was living in Fiji in the mid-90s. My family is originally from Goa in India but we'd never been. My parents, younger brother and I were born in Africa—we were refugees who fled from Uganda to the ...

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I was 16-years-old and holding my breath as I backed up against a narrow corridor in a convent in New York City. The door opened and a tiny woman in a sari with blue stripes on the edges was being ...

A United Nations stamp to honor a Catholic saint? Yes. On Aug. 12, the UN issued a commemorative stamp honoring Mother Teresa, one of the most celebrated women and Catholic missionaries of the 20th ...

From the Dominican Republic to New Zealand, hundreds of young people are in Rome visiting the exhibition dedicated to the Saint, canonised in 2016. Guided tours are also available to see the room she ...

CALCUTTA, India -- 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 ...