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Most Beautiful Gift For A Person That He Can Participate in The Sufferings of Christ'

Recent research has disputed Mother Teresa's reputation as a saintly figure, alleging that she siphoned millions in aid and had controversial political connections. Despite criticism, she is regarded as an extraordinary figure who represented hope, love, and benevolence. Born in 1910, she began her missionary work in India in 1948 and founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. At the time of her death in 1997, the organization had over 4,000 sisters operating 610 missions across 123 countries.

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Most Beautiful Gift For A Person That He Can Participate in The Sufferings of Christ'

Recent research has disputed Mother Teresa's reputation as a saintly figure, alleging that she siphoned millions in aid and had controversial political connections. Despite criticism, she is regarded as an extraordinary figure who represented hope, love, and benevolence. Born in 1910, she began her missionary work in India in 1948 and founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. At the time of her death in 1997, the organization had over 4,000 sisters operating 610 missions across 123 countries.

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Recent research by a group of Canadian scientists have disputed her reputation as being as saintly as the

popularity she enjoyed around the world. She has been alleged to siphon off millions of dollars aid in the
name of her orphanages and having wrong sorts of political connections. But perhaps worst criticism to
surface is her deliberate attempt to make her subjects suffer in accordance with her philosophy of the
most beautiful gift for a person that he can participate in the sufferings of Christ'.
Despite being the center of attention even after her death, at times for wrong reasons, Mother Teresa is
undeniably an extraordinary figure of our times. She represented more than just a human being with a
big heart. Her image was the one of hope, of hospitality, of benevolence, of love.
Born on 27 August 1910 in Skopje, the capital of modern day Macedonia, she arrived in Darjeeling, India
at an early age of 18 to begin her religious training, mostly involving meditation and prayer, needed to
become a member of the church. She began her missionary work with the poor in 1948. After receiving
the Vatican orders for starting a congregation 7 October 1950, later to be named Missionaries of
Charity, she started it with as small as 13 people in Calcutta. The initiative soon began to invite both
fresh staff and donations, and by the 1960s had opened hospitals, orphanages and leper houses all
across India.
In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for work undertaken in the struggle to
overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace." She refused the conventional
ceremonial banquet given to laureates, and asked that the $192,000 funds be given to the poor in India.
In 1982, at the height of the Siege of Beirut, Mother Teresa rescued 37 children trapped in a front line
hospital by brokering a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas.
Accompanied by Red Cross workers, she travelled through the war zone to the devastated hospital to
evacuate the young patients.
On 13 March 1997, she stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity. She died on 5
September 1997. At the time of her death, the scope of operations had gotten so wide that Mother
Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, and an associated brotherhood of 300 members,
operating 610 missions in 123 countries.
She beautifully summed up her own efforts in one of her quotes God doesn't require us to succeed; he
only requires that you try.

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