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Internationally respected for her work to relieve the sufferings of the poor and dying, also in Kosova. Mother Teresa was awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was the daughter of Albanian parents, a grocer and his wife. As a public school student she developed a special interest in overseas missions and, by age 12, realized her vocation was aiding the poor. Agnes who would become Mother Teresa felt the call to help others. She entered the order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto at the age of 18. Before she left this World in September 1997, she gave us so much we have to remember and use.
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The Mother Teresa actions to support the poor people in Kosova, are now under very hard circumstances, under terror and war. 1992 In Beirut, during fighting between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas she said: "I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself), What do they feel when they do this?' I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don't understand."
In a letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991:
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-Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
-When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
-A nation that destroys the life of an unborn child, who has been created for living and loving, who has been created in the image of God, is in a tremendous poverty.
-I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying....It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
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