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    report, a discussion regarding about Mother Teresa who was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, which is the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Her religion was Catholic and she was a great missionary. Mother Teresa taught in India for 17 years before in 1946 she experienced her "call within a call" to devote herself to caring for the sick and poor people. In this moment, she started her humanitarian and famous story surround in the world. Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the

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    uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty". Gonxha Agnes best know as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a humanitarian worker who dedicated her life to helping out the less fortunate. Mother Teresa was a woman who saw beauty in every human, she chose to "serve the poorest of the poor and to live among them and like them." Mother Teresa was committed to making the lives of those around her more peaceful and full of love. Gonxha Agnes was born on August 27

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    A brief biography Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on 26 August 1910 and baptised on 27 August 1910 in the town of Skopje, Macedonia. However, she always wrote her birthday as 27 August because to her, the day of her baptism was always more important than the day of her birth. Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who devoted her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world. She spent many years teaching in India, where she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious

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    Let us all thank God for this meeting ("Transcript of Mother Teresa´s Acceptance Speech"). I am Mother Teresa, the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity and Patron Saint for Doubters (Eisenstadt-Evans, “Mother Teresa's canonization: She is the ‘Patron saint for doubters’”). I was born in Skopje, (the capital of the Republic of Macedonia) Albania in 1910. I’m a Roman Catholic and from the age of 18 began to study to become a nun in Ireland (Gray, 60). In September of 1946, I received

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    1910 in Skopje, in Macedonia. Her childhood was comfortable and prosperous due to her father's success. Her father encouraged his children to be generous and compassionate to those less fortunate. Her mother was very religious and she took the children to morning mass. Agnes often helped her mother deliver parcels of food and money to the poor and prayed with the whole family every evening. The family's life changed dramatically after their father's death, when Agnes was 9. Although now poor themselves

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    Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows

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    give can either be positive or negative. The effect of the Catholic religion on mother Teresa was a positive influence, an influence whichever inspired others to follow her. Agnes Gonxha, or ‘flower bud’, the translation of Gonxha, was the birth name which Mother Teresa was given by her parents. Her family took religion quite seriously, and which in turn lead Agnes to be a religious person known by many. Though Mother Teresa sparked the world with her attitude of helping others and showing the example

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    A woman whom I have respected and admired since I was a young child is Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun and missionary. Mother Teresa is known for preaching the “Good News” to the homeless in the slums of Calcutta, India. She organized the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a multitude of Roman Catholic women devoted to helping the needy. Mother Teresa was born on August 26th, 1910 in the Republic of Macedonia and she was baptized the day after in Skopje. Being raised in a highly religious Catholic

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    2015 Mother Teresa For generations, people around the world of all various social classes have lived very differently. People are wealthy and have things given to them, or poor and working hard for basic needs. Some were unlucky and born with defects that would affect them their whole lives. Others were blessed to live a healthy life. There are very few people around the around the world that would take time from their life to help people consistently. However, Mother Teresa was a hero because

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    Mother Teresa is one of the most written about and publicized women of the 20th century. She is the second most advertised religious celebrity after Pope John Paul II. Due to her fame, many people willingly step forward to offer their support and praise her work. The Indian media used Mother Teresa as a figure for a movement towards bettering the lives of those in the lower castes. They believe that if the Indian people were seeing a white, foreign woman caring for their family and neighbors that

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