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title: Commemorations of Mother Teresa

text: (Kolkata) has been renamed as Mother Teresa Sarani (i.e., Mother Teresa Street) in 2004. Commemorations of Mother Teresa Mother Teresa of Kolkata has been memorialized throughout the world in recognition of her work with the poor. During her lifetime this commemoration often took the form of awards and honorary degrees bestowed upon her. She has also been memorialized through museums and dedications of churches, roads and other structures. The Memorial House of Mother Teresa was opened in Mother Teresa's hometown of Skopje, present-day Republic of Macedonia (). The museum has a significant selection of objects from Mother Teresa's life in

title: Commemorations of Mother Teresa

text: Commemorations of Mother Teresa Mother Teresa of Kolkata has been memorialized throughout the world in recognition of her work with the poor. During her lifetime this commemoration often took the form of awards and honorary degrees bestowed upon her. She has also been memorialized through museums and dedications of churches, roads and other structures. The Memorial House of Mother Teresa was opened in Mother Teresa's hometown of Skopje, present-day Republic of Macedonia (). The museum has a significant selection of objects from Mother Teresa's life in Skopje and relics from her later life. In the memorial room there is a

title: Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?

text: phenomenon of celebrity', and ‘the most authoritative English-language author on Blessed Teresa of Kolkata'. Alpion's first study on Mother Teresa ‘Media, ethnicity and patriotism: The Balkans ‘unholy war’ for the appropriation of Mother Teresa’, was published in the "Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans" (now "Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies"), in 2004. This was followed by the article ‘Media and celebrity culture: subjectivist, structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to Mother Teresa’s celebrity status’, which was published in "" in 2006. Alpion's most recent study on Mother Teresa 'The Emergence of Mother Teresa as a Religious Visionary and the

title: Criticism of Mother Teresa

text: sociologist, activist, and president of the Catholic League Bill Donohue wrote a book-length response to criticism of Mother Teresa. In 1991, Robin Fox, editor of the British medical journal "The Lancet" visited the Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta (now Kolkata) and described the medical care the patients received as "haphazard". He observed that sisters and volunteers, some of whom had no medical knowledge, had to make decisions about patient care, because of the lack of doctors in the hospice. Fox specifically held Teresa responsible for conditions in this home, and observed that her order did not distinguish between curable

title: The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

text: Saint Teresa of Kolkata in September 2016. The introduction is devoted to Mother Teresa's acceptance of an award from the government of Haiti, which Hitchens uses to discuss her relationship to the Duvalier regime. From her praise of the country's corrupt first family, he writes, "Other questions arise … all of them touching on matters of saintliness, modesty, humility and devotion to the poor." He adds other examples of Mother Teresa's relationships with powerful people with what he considers dubious reputations. He quickly reviews Mother Teresa's saintly reputation in books devoted to her and describes the process of beatification and

title: Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?

text: character piece creates a comprehensive cross-cultural examination that has the potential to become a new archetypal work of this mercurial personality.’ In "Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?" and other academic publications on the Albanian-born nun, Alpion is critical of Christopher Hitchens' vitriol on her. Writing in the "Hindustan Times" in 2014, Alpion criticizes Hitchens and other detractors of Mother Teresa, such as Germaine Greer and Richard Dawkins for, what he calls, their 'superficial understanding' of the sister. Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity? Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity? is a 2007 non-fiction book written by Gëzim Alpion about Mother Teresa. Gëzim

title: St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy

text: St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy (SMTCA, St. Mother Teresa, SMT, Mother Teresa, or Teresa for short); also known as by its former names Blessed Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School before 2016 and Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School in its inception is a Catholic secondary school in the Malvern neighbourhood of Scarborough, a municipality of Toronto, Ontario. Mother Teresa of Calcutta founded the a Roman Catholic religious congregation, Missionaries of Charity, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. Members of the order must adhere to the vows of chastity,

title: Mother Teresa

text: says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work." She visited Armenia after the 1988 earthquake and met with Nikolai Ryzhkov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Teresa travelled to assist the hungry in Ethiopia, radiation victims at Chernobyl and earthquake victims in Armenia. In 1991 she returned to Albania for the first time, opening a Missionaries of Charity Brothers home in Tirana. By 1996, Teresa operated 517 missions in over 100 countries. Her Missionaries of Charity grew from twelve to thousands, serving the "poorest of the poor" in 450 centres worldwide. The first Missionaries

title: Criticism of Mother Teresa

text: "First Things" criticises Christopher Hitchens' methods and findings of the Université de Montréal review. A more detailed response to criticism of Mother Teresa's critics came from William A. Donohue. Melanie McDonagh believes that Mother Teresa is in large part "criticized for not being what she never set out to be, for not doing things which she never saw as her job." Mother Teresa was not a social worker. She did not address the fundamental causes of poverty; "she wasn't trying to do anything except treat people at the margins of society as if they were Christ himself." Mari Marcel Thekaekara

title: Mother Teresa

text: in 1965 with five sisters. Houses followed in Italy (Rome), Tanzania and Austria in 1968, and during the 1970s the congregation opened houses and foundations in the United States and dozens of countries in Asia, Africa and Europe. The Missionaries of Charity Brothers was founded in 1963, and a contemplative branch of the Sisters followed in 1976. Lay Catholics and non-Catholics were enrolled in the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa, the Sick and Suffering Co-Workers, and the Lay Missionaries of Charity. Responding to requests by many priests, in 1981 Mother Teresa founded the Corpus Christi Movement for Priests and (with priest

title: Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor

text: Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor is a 1997 made-for-television biographical film directed by Kevin Connor and starring Geraldine Chaplin as Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa herself had approved the script but withdrew her imprimatur shortly before her death. It was broadcast on what was then known as The Family Channel on 5 October 1997. In mid-1940s Calcutta, Mother Teresa teaches geography at her convent. One day, she and one of the other sisters go outside the convent to find food for their girls, only to get caught up in a

text: far as biography or drama." The film won the Audience Award at the 1998 Art Film Festival and the writers were nominated for the Humanitas Prize. Chaplin drew on her experience as a convent-educated schoolgirl in Switzerland and her once-held desire to become a nun. Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor is a 1997 made-for-television biographical film directed by Kevin Connor and starring Geraldine Chaplin as Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa herself had approved the script but withdrew her imprimatur shortly before her death. It was broadcast on what was then

title: Encounters with Civilizations: From Alexander the Great to Mother Teresa

text: Alpion is one of the most intelligent and acute observers in the world of the situation of Albanian culture and its most famous modern representative, Mother Teresa. His work is destined to be controversial but should be read as widely as possible, and his book Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity? will, I believe, prove a standard and indispensable resource.’ Stephen Schwartz Author of "Two Faces of Islam", Washington, D.C., USA ‘[Alpion] seeks to do on paper what Mohammed Ali did in politics: release Egypt from the psychosis of its national inferiority complex, restore its nationhood, and revive Egypt for the

title: Criticism of Mother Teresa

text: wishes and disputes surreptitious baptisms. "...those who are quick to criticise Mother Teresa and her mission, are unable or unwilling to do anything to help with their own hands." Criticism of Mother Teresa The work of Roman Catholic nun, missionary, and saint Mother Teresa received mixed reactions from prominent people, governments and organizations. Her practices and those of the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded, were subject to numerous controversies. These include objections to the quality of medical care they provided, suggestions that some deathbed baptisms constituted forced conversion, and alleged links to colonialism and racism. Teresa received extensive

title: Mother Teresa

text: convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith." Joseph Langford later wrote, "Though no one knew it at the time, Sister Teresa had just become "Mother" Teresa". She began missionary work with the poor in 1948, replacing her traditional Loreto habit with a simple, white cotton sari with a blue border. Teresa adopted Indian citizenship, spent several months in Patna to receive basic medical training at Holy Family Hospital and ventured into

title: Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?

text: of her decision to serve the poorest of the poor.' Mother Teresa was one of the most prominent religious figures of the twentieth century. Apart from Pope John Paul II, she was arguably the most advertised religious celebrity in the last quarter of the twentieth century. During her lifetime, as well as posthumously, the figure, work and legacy of Mother Teresa generated, and continue to generate, a huge level of interest and heated debate. In "Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?", Gëzim Alpion explores the significance of Mother Teresa to the mass media, to celebrity culture, to the Church and to

text: Church on the issues of marriage, divorce, and remarriage" and a "strong and vehement distaste for Mother Teresa." In 1999, Charles Taylor of "Salon" called "The Missionary Position" "brilliant" and wrote that it "should have laid the myth of Mother Teresa’s saintliness to rest once and for all." The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is an essay by the British-American journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens published in 1995. It is a critique of the work and philosophy of Mother Teresa, the founder of an international Roman Catholic religious

text: The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is an essay by the British-American journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens published in 1995. It is a critique of the work and philosophy of Mother Teresa, the founder of an international Roman Catholic religious congregation, and it challenges the mainstream media's assessment of her charitable efforts. In length 128 pages, it was re-issued in paperback and ebook form with a foreword by Thomas Mallon in 2012. The book's thesis, as summarized by one critic, was that "Mother Teresa is less interested in

title: Mother Teresa

text: Mother Teresa Mother Teresa, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, ; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Macedonia for eighteen years she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. In 1950 Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation which had over 4,500 sisters and was active in

title: Mother Teresa

text: it as oversized relative to the number of Catholics in the area. An initiative to erect a monument to Teresa in the town of Peć (according to activists, 98 percent Muslim) was opposed by Kosovo Muslims. Mother Teresa Women's University, in Kodaikanal, was established in 1984 as a public university by the government of Tamil Nadu. The Mother Theresa Postgraduate and Research Institute of Health Sciences, in Pondicherry, was established in 1999 by the government of Puducherry. The charitable organisation Sevalaya runs the Mother Teresa Girls Home, providing poor and orphaned girls near the underserved village of Kasuva in Tamil

title: Criticism of Mother Teresa

text: Criticism of Mother Teresa The work of Roman Catholic nun, missionary, and saint Mother Teresa received mixed reactions from prominent people, governments and organizations. Her practices and those of the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded, were subject to numerous controversies. These include objections to the quality of medical care they provided, suggestions that some deathbed baptisms constituted forced conversion, and alleged links to colonialism and racism. Teresa received extensive media coverage, and some critics suggest that the Church used her image to promote Catholicism and to distract from ecclesiastical scandals. Indian author and physician Aroup Chatterjee, who briefly

title: Mother Teresa Awards

text: Mother Teresa Awards The ' are awards to honour individuals and organizations that promote peace, equality and social justice, and aim to encourage the cause of justice and peaceful coexistence, while providing a impetus for society to imbibe these values. The award is given in honour of Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa Awards have been given since 2004 annually or biannually. They are an initiative of Harmony Foundation, an organization created by Abraham Mathai in Mumbai. It is the only award in the name of Mother Teresa recognised by the Missionaries of Charity. (Another award by this name, awarded for slightly

title: Mother Teresa High School

text: 2016, the school's patron Mother Teresa was canonized into Sainthood by Pope Francis. She is now referred to as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in the Catholic Church. The Ottawa Catholic School Board decided to rename the high school, St. Mother Teresa Catholic High School to keep with tradition. Mother Teresa High School St. Mother Teresa High School is a Catholic secondary school in the Nepean district of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It supports grades 7–12. The name of its sports team is the 'Titans'. The motto of the school is "Amor et Dignitas" or "love and dignity." Mother Teresa has many

title: Mother Teresa

text: The Roman Catholic Church declared St. Francis Xavier the first patron saint of Calcutta in 1986. Teresa has been commemorated by museums and named the patroness of a number of churches. She has had buildings, roads and complexes named after her, including Albania's international airport. Mother Teresa Day "(Dita e Nënë Terezës)", 19 October, is a public holiday in Albania. In 2009 the Memorial House of Mother Teresa was opened in her hometown of Skopje, Macedonia. The Roman Catholic cathedral in Pristina, Kosovo, is named in her honour. Its construction, begun in 2011, sparked controversy in Muslim circles who saw

title: Mother Teresa

text: the first Roman Catholic cathedral named in Teresa's honor, was consecrated in Kosovo. The Cathedral is also Kosovo's first Roman Catholic cathedral as well. Mother Teresa Mother Teresa, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, ; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Macedonia for eighteen years she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of

title: Mother Teresa

text: Nadu with free food, clothing, shelter and education. A number of tributes by Teresa's biographer, Navin Chawla, have appeared in Indian newspapers and magazines. Indian Railways introduced the "Mother Express", a new train named after Mother Teresa, on 26 August 2010 to commemorate the centenary of her birth. The Tamil Nadu government organised centenary celebrations honouring Teresa on 4 December 2010 in Chennai, headed by chief minister M Karunanidhi. Beginning on 5 September 2013, the anniversary of her death has been designated the International Day of Charity by the United Nations General Assembly. On September 5, 2017, St. Teresa Cathedral,

title: Mother Teresa

text: In 1979, Teresa received 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 for laureates, asking that its $192,000 cost be given to the poor in India and saying that earthly rewards were important only if they helped her to help the world's needy. When Teresa received the prize she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered, "Go home and love your family." Building on this theme in her Nobel lecture, she said: "Around the world,

title: Mother Teresa Awards

text: different purposes, was approved by Mother Nirmala for use of the St. Bernadette Institute for Sacred Art.) 2005 2006 International Awardee: National Awardees: 2008 International Awardee: National Awardees: 2010 International Awardee: National Awardees 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Mother Teresa Awards The ' are awards to honour individuals and organizations that promote peace, equality and social justice, and aim to encourage the cause of justice and peaceful coexistence, while providing a impetus for society to imbibe these values. The award is given in honour of Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa Awards have been given since 2004 annually or biannually. They

text: "a hellhole", is not deserved, but nevertheless provides a sympathetic context for Mother Teresa's work there. He quotes from conversations between Muggeridge and Mother Teresa, providing his own commentary. He quotes Muggeridge's description of "the technically unaccountable light" the BBC team filmed in the interior of the Home of the Dying as "the first authentic photographic miracle". Hitchens contrasts this with the cameraman's statement that what Muggeridge thought was a miracle was the result of them using the latest Kodak film. The second section, "Good Works and Heroic Deeds", has three chapters: The third section, "Ubiquity", has two chapters: The

title: Mother Teresa

text: not only in the poor countries, but I found the poverty of the West so much more difficult to remove. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from society—that poverty is so hurtable and so much, and I find that very difficult." Teresa singled out abortion as "the greatest destroyer of peace today. Because if a mother can kill

title: Commemorations of Mother Teresa

text: for love." Mother Teresa is held in high regard among Kosovars, who consider her one of their own, as she spent her childhood in Kosovo. The main street in Kosovo's capital Pristina is called Mother Teresa Street "(Rruga Nëna Terezë)". Zana Krasniqi, the Miss Kosovo Universe 2008, made mention of Mother Teresa, calling her a great ancestor. A block of Lydig Avenue, between Holland and Wallace Avenues, located in the New York City borough of the Bronx was renamed Mother Teresa Way on August 30, 2009, honoring her and the borough's growing Albanian community. The historical Park Street in Calcutta

text: riot. Though they manage to make it back to the convent, Mother Teresa is shocked by the sight of the massive number of people starving in the streets. Haunted by the images of the hungry people, Mother Teresa decides to leave the convent to devote her life to caring for the poorest of the poor. Soon after her arrival in the slums, Mother Teresa teaches the children to read and write, but she faces opposition from the adults in the slum who mistrust her because of the colour of her skin. As Mother Teresa continues her crusade to help the

title: St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy

text: instrumental music. To gain acceptance, students must complete a supplementary application. RAP students enjoy enrichment activities beyond the traditional curriculum and will find themselves challenged artistically. Upon completion of 4 years of study in the RAP, students are prepared to pursue studies in fine arts at the university or college level. They will have opportunities to create and build a well-rounded portfolio of performance arts or visual arts. RAP students at SMT also graduate with a Certificate in Arts Education. St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy (SMTCA, St. Mother Teresa, SMT, Mother Teresa, or Teresa for

text: canonization under Pope John Paul II. Finally, he disclaims any quarrel with Mother Teresa herself and says he is more concerned with the public view of her: "What follows here is an argument not with a deceiver but with the deceived." The first section, "A Miracle", discusses the popular view of Mother Teresa and focuses on the 1969 BBC documentary "Something Wonderful for God" which brought her to the attention of the general public and served as the basis for the book of the same title by Malcolm Muggeridge. Hitchens says that Calcutta's reputation as a place of abject poverty,

title: Mother Teresa

text: of Loreto in India. She never saw her mother or her sister again. Her family lived in Skopje until 1934, when they moved to Tirana. She arrived in India in 1929 and began her novitiate in Darjeeling, in the lower Himalayas, where she learnt Bengali and taught at St. Teresa's School near her convent. Teresa took her first religious vows on 24 May 1931. She chose to be named after Thérèse de Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries; because a nun in the convent had already chosen that name, Agnes opted for its Spanish spelling (Teresa). Teresa took her solemn

title: Mother Teresa

text: that she wasn't working to alleviate poverty", he said, "She was working to expand the number of Catholics. She said, 'I'm not a social worker. I don't do it for this reason. I do it for Christ. I do it for the church. Abortion-rights groups have also criticised Teresa's stance against abortion and contraception. Analysing her deeds and achievements, Pope John Paul II said: "Where did Mother Teresa find the strength and perseverance to place herself completely at the service of others? She found it in prayer and in the silent contemplation of Jesus Christ, his Holy Face, his Sacred

title: Mother Teresa High School, R.K.Puram

text: to age 15). Its administrative body is the Mother Teresa Educational Academy. In September 1999 it was recognized by state Govt. Annual Competitions and Events are organized Sports Day Concert Music Day Annual Day Debate Quiz Football Cricket Tennis Singing Dancing Drawing and Craft Mother Teresa High School, R.K.Puram The St.Mother Teresa High School is a co-education school located at R.K.Puram, Secunderabad, India. It was established in 9 September 1999. Mother Teresa Educational Academy was founded by Smt. Anil Kumari PG, PMIR, (Chairperson cum founder of MTEA) in the year 1999. The school is named as St.Mother Teresa Known as

title: Memorial House of Mother Teresa

text: exhibits and includes a gallery. The architect of the project is Vangel Božinovski. Memorial House of Mother Teresa The Mother Teresa Memorial House () is dedicated to the humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mother Teresa and is located in her hometown Skopje, in Macedonia, where she lived from 1910 to 1928. The memorial house was built on the popular Macedonia Street in the Centar municipality, on the very location of the once Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church, where Mother Teresa was baptized. It lies just east of the Ristiḱ Palace and the Macedonia Square. In the first

title: Memorial House of Mother Teresa

text: Memorial House of Mother Teresa The Mother Teresa Memorial House () is dedicated to the humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mother Teresa and is located in her hometown Skopje, in Macedonia, where she lived from 1910 to 1928. The memorial house was built on the popular Macedonia Street in the Centar municipality, on the very location of the once Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church, where Mother Teresa was baptized. It lies just east of the Ristiḱ Palace and the Macedonia Square. In the first three weeks, the memorial house was visited by 12,000 people. The memorial house

title: Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?

text: Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity? Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity? is a 2007 non-fiction book written by Gëzim Alpion about Mother Teresa. Gëzim Alpion is an academic, political analyst, writer, playwright, and essayist. He holds a BA from Cairo University and a PhD from Durham University, UK. Currently based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Birmingham, UK, Alpion’s main publications to date include "Foreigner Complex: Essays and Fiction about Egypt", (2002) "Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?" (2007), and "" (2011). Alpion is an editorial board member and reviewer for a range of peer-reviewed journals including "Celebrity Studies",

title: Mother Teresa Square (Tirana)

text: zone, mostly used for different activities and concerts by the Municipality of Tirana. Mother Teresa Square (Tirana) The Mother Teresa Square () is the second largest square in Tirana, Albania. It is named after the Albanian Roman Catholic nun, missionary and nobelist Mother Teresa. The square was planned by the Italian architect Gherardo Bosio, and built together with the main Boulevard in 1939 to 1941, during the Italian occupation of Albania, in a Rationalist style. When the square was first constructed, it was named "Victor Emmanuel III Square" in honor of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. It is located on

title: Mother Teresa Square (Tirana)

text: Mother Teresa Square (Tirana) The Mother Teresa Square () is the second largest square in Tirana, Albania. It is named after the Albanian Roman Catholic nun, missionary and nobelist Mother Teresa. The square was planned by the Italian architect Gherardo Bosio, and built together with the main Boulevard in 1939 to 1941, during the Italian occupation of Albania, in a Rationalist style. When the square was first constructed, it was named "Victor Emmanuel III Square" in honor of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. It is located on the north end of the Dëshmorët e Kombit Boulevard and important buildings are

title: Mother Teresa Regional School

text: in the Bayshore area. These programs were open to all children, and were not limited to students of the school or children of parishioners. The academy aimed to offer more than twenty programs per season, including topics such as sports, history, science, and dance. In June 2016, it was announced by the Diocese of Trenton that Mother Teresa would be closing. Mother Teresa Regional School Mother Teresa Regional School (MTRS) was a Catholic school, which offered grades pre-K to eighth, in the Diocese of Trenton in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, USA. The principal was Tom Sorci before the school's closure.

title: Mother Teresa High School

text: Mother Teresa High School St. Mother Teresa High School is a Catholic secondary school in the Nepean district of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It supports grades 7–12. The name of its sports team is the 'Titans'. The motto of the school is "Amor et Dignitas" or "love and dignity." Mother Teresa has many sports teams, including Alpine Skiing, Badminton, Baseball (does not have a team every year), Basketball, Cheerleading, Cross Country Running, Field Hockey, Golf, Handball, Hockey, Nordic Skiing, Rugby, Ski Club, Soccer, Softball, Field Lacrosse, Swimming, Touch Football, Football, Track & Field, Varsity Girls Rugby, Varsity Girls Touch Football, Volleyball,

title: Commemorations of Mother Teresa

text: model of her family home, made by Vojo Georgievski. Next to the memorial room, there is an area with the image of Mother Teresa as well as a memorial park and fountain. Just at the edge of Skopje's City Mall (Gradski Trgovski Centar), is the place where the house of Mother Teresa used to stand. The memorial plaque was dedicated in March 1998 and it reads: "On this place was the house where Gondža Bojadžiu - Mother Teresa - born on 26 August 1910". Her message to the world is also inscribed: "The world is not hungry for bread, but

title: Mother Teresa High School, R.K.Puram

text: Mother Teresa High School, R.K.Puram The St.Mother Teresa High School is a co-education school located at R.K.Puram, Secunderabad, India. It was established in 9 September 1999. Mother Teresa Educational Academy was founded by Smt. Anil Kumari PG, PMIR, (Chairperson cum founder of MTEA) in the year 1999. The school is named as St.Mother Teresa Known as tradition as she was the mother of all (for all needy people). The school is affiliated to SSC syllabus. The school's motto is "TRUTH IS GOD" & "LEARN N SERVE" Children are schooled from the primary stage through to the 10th standard (age 3

title: Mother Teresa

text: her own child—what is left for me to kill you and you kill me—there is nothing between." Barbara Smoker of the secular humanist magazine "The Freethinker" criticised Teresa after the Peace Prize award, saying that her promotion of Catholic moral teachings on abortion and contraception diverted funds from effective methods to solve India's problems. At the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, Teresa said: "Yet we can destroy this gift of motherhood, especially by the evil of abortion, but also by thinking that other things like jobs or positions are more important than loving." During her lifetime Teresa was

title: Mother Teresa

text: made occasional trips outside India for humanitarian reasons. In 1982, at the height of the Siege of Beirut, 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 hospital to evacuate the young patients. When Eastern Europe experienced increased openness in the late 1980s, Teresa expanded her efforts to Communist countries which had rejected the Missionaries of Charity. She began dozens of projects, undeterred by criticism of her stands against abortion and divorce: "No matter who

title: Criticism of Mother Teresa

text: the soul". The Showtime program "" has an episode titled "Holier than Thou" that was released in 2005, which criticises Mother Teresa, as well as Mahatma Gandhi and the 14th Dalai Lama. The show criticises Mother Teresa's relationships with Charles Keating and the Duvalier family, as well as the quality of medical care in her home for the dying. Christopher Hitchens appears on, and narrates, some of the episode. According to Navin B. Chawla, the Missionaries of Charity set up a small mission in Port-au-Prince. A day after Mother Teresa visited and left, Duvalier's daughter-in-law went to Mother Teresa's mission

title: Mother Teresa

text: Pope Pius XII's death in 1958, while she prayed for him at a requiem mass, she was relieved of "the long darkness: that strange suffering." However, five weeks later her spiritual dryness returned. Teresa wrote many letters to her confessors and superiors over a 66-year period, most notably to Calcutta Archbishop Ferdinand Perier and Jesuit priest Celeste van Exem (her spiritual advisor since the formation of the Missionaries of Charity). She requested that her letters be destroyed, concerned that "people will think more of me—less of Jesus." However, the correspondence has been compiled in "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light".

title: Mother Teresa

text: as Mother Teresa presented it." On the Hindu right, the Bharatiya Janata Party clashed with Teresa over the Christian Dalits but praised her in death and sent a representative to her funeral. Vishwa Hindu Parishad, however, opposed the government decision to grant her a state funeral. Secretary Giriraj Kishore said that "her first duty was to the Church and social service was incidental", accusing her of favouring Christians and conducting "secret baptisms" of the dying. In a front-page tribute, the Indian fortnightly "Frontline" dismissed the charges as "patently false" and said that they had "made no impact on the public

title: Mother Teresa

text: 2017. On September 5, 2017, Archbishop Thomas D'Souza, who serves as head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta, confirmed that Teresa will be named co-patron of the Calcutta Diocese, alongside Francis Xavier. On September 6, 2017, about 500 people attended the Mass at a cathedral where Dominique Gomes, the local Vicar General, read the decree instituting her as the second patron saint of the archdiocese. The ceremony was also presided over by D’Souza and the Vatican’s ambassador to India, Giambattista Diquattro, who lead the Mass and inaugurated a bronze statue in the church of Mother Teresa carrying a child.

title: Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School

text: Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School is a high school in London, Ontario administered under the Medway District Catholic School Board. Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School opened in September 2000 with 150 Grade 9 students located at a site on 420 Charles Street until the current building on Sunningdale Road East in North East London was opened on September 11, 2001. The current building is a two-storey $25 million facility approximately 170,000 square feet in area located on 15 acres of land. The property includes a football and soccer field, an 8 lane running track and

title: Mother Teresa

text: figure during her life and after her death, Teresa was admired by many for her charitable work. She was praised and criticised for her opposition to abortion, and criticised for poor conditions in her houses for the dying. Her authorised biography was written by Navin Chawla and published in 1992, and she has been the subject of films and other books. On September 6, 2017, Teresa was named co-patron of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta, alongside St. Francis Xavier. Teresa was born Anjezë Gonxhe (or Gonxha) Bojaxhiu (; "Anjezë" is a cognate of "Agnes"; "Gonxhe" means "rosebud" or "little

title: Mother Teresa High School

text: Weight Room, and Wrestling. On May 28, 2014, the OFSAA division baseball team won the NCSSAA city championship giving the school its seventh city championship win of the school year. Mother Teresa's Drama Department put on a production of "twinkly stars" in 2015. The production was nominated for 16 "Cappies" awards in total. The population of Mother Teresa is currently approximately 1500 students. The population has been steadily increasing with the increasing population of the sub-urban Barrhaven community. As much as it is a Catholic school, Mother Teresa is proud to be home to students of many different religions, ethnicities,

text: helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs." The response to Hitchens's arguments fell largely upon ideological lines, with some critics contesting his evidence and others his understanding of the religious phenomenon Mother Teresa represented. Hitchens disclaims any argument with Mother Teresa herself and says that he is more concerned with the public view of her. Hitchens addressed the subject of Mother Teresa on several occasions before publishing "The Missionary Position". In 1992 he devoted one of his regular columns in "The Nation"

title: Mother Teresa

text: vows on 14 May 1937 while she was a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Entally, eastern Calcutta. She served there for nearly twenty years, and was appointed its headmistress in 1944. Although Teresa enjoyed teaching at the school, she was increasingly disturbed by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta. The Bengal famine of 1943 brought misery and death to the city, and the August 1946 Direct Action Day began a period of Muslim-Hindu violence. On 10 September 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within the call" when she travelled by train to the Loreto

title: Criticism of Mother Teresa

text: worked in one of Mother Teresa's homes, later investigated the financial and other practices of Teresa's order. In 1994, two British journalists, Christopher Hitchens and Tariq Ali, produced a critical British Channel 4 documentary, "Hell's Angel", based on Chatterjee's work. The next year, Hitchens published "", a book that repeated many of the accusations in the documentary. Chatterjee published "The Final Verdict" in 2003, a less polemic work than those of Hitchens and Ali, but equally critical of Teresa's operations. Chatterjee and Hitchens were called by the Vatican to present evidence against Teresa during her canonisation process. In 2016, American

title: Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?

text: Mother Teresa's own attitude to her childhood and to the Balkan conflicts in the 1980s and 1990s. Referring to "Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?", Stephen Schwartz holds that 'in its depth, breadth, and seriousness', this monograph 'may stand for some time to come as the single most important biography of Mother Teresa in English’. In his review of the book which appeared in the "American Communication Journal", Marvin Williams contends that ‘Alpion’s examination of Mother Teresa’s celebrity is a case study of corporate identity management in today’s global media environment. His weaving of primary texts into the setting of this

title: Mother Teresa

text: Heart." Privately, Teresa experienced doubts and struggle in her religious beliefs which lasted nearly 50 years (until the end of her life); according to her postulator, Brian Kolodiejchuk, "She felt no presence of God whatsoever ... in her heart or in the eucharist". Teresa expressed grave doubts about God's existence and pain over her lack of faith: Kolodiejchuk (the official responsible for gathering evidence for her canonisation) thought that her unhappiness might be misinterpreted by some, but her faith that God was working through her was undiminished; although she pined for lost closeness to God, she did not question his

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text: people, quoting her words at a 1981 press conference in which she was asked: "Do you teach the poor to endure their lot?" She replied: "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people." In an essay in the collection "White Women in Racialized Spaces", historian Vijay Prashad said of Mother Teresa: Mother Teresa died in 1997. Despite her request that all writing and correspondence be destroyed, a collection was posthumously released to

title: Mother Teresa Regional School

text: Mother Teresa Regional School Mother Teresa Regional School (MTRS) was a Catholic school, which offered grades pre-K to eighth, in the Diocese of Trenton in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, USA. The principal was Tom Sorci before the school's closure. MTRS offered many sports programs and encouraged student participation in the variety of in-school and after school groups and clubs. The school year was broken down into three trimesters. The athletic programs it offered included basketball, baseball, track and the New Jersey Devils sponsored "Street Devils" floor hockey program, which ran for two seasons each school year, in the fall and

title: Mother Teresa of Calcutta Medical Center

text: Mother Teresa of Calcutta Medical Center Mother Teresa of Calcutta Medical Center is a tertiary hospital in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines. Owned and operated by Silvermed Corporation, Mother Teresa of Calcutta Medical Center was founded on February 28, 2006 in Mac Arthur Hwy., Barangay Maimpis, City of San Fernando, Pampanga. It initially started with 100 capacity and today, it already has 142 beds with 415 doctors.∧ Calcutta has been awarded by the City of San Fernando Health Office as the healthiest hospital, in large category in 2009, 2010, 2013 respectively.∧. It was commented again as the healthiest hospital again in

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text: have been a series of other reports documenting inattention to medical care in the order's facilities. Similar points of view have also been expressed by some former volunteers who worked for Teresa's order. Mother Teresa herself referred to the facilities as "Houses of the Dying". In 2013, in a comprehensive review covering 96% of the literature on Mother Teresa, a group of Université de Montréal academics reinforced the foregoing criticism, detailing, among other issues, the missionary's practice of "caring for the sick by glorifying their suffering instead of relieving it, ... her questionable political contacts, her suspicious management of the

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text: the United States. Keating's convictions were thrown out on appeal, as was a summary judgement. Keating later pled guilty to four counts of wire and bankruptcy fraud and was sentenced to time served. After Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's suspension of civil liberties in 1975 (The Emergency), Mother Teresa said: "People are happier. There are more jobs. There are no strikes." These approving comments were seen as a result of the friendship between Teresa and the Congress Party. Mother Teresa's comments were even criticised outside India within the Catholic media. She supported Licio Gelli's nomination for the Nobel Prize in

text: Encounters with Civilizations: From Alexander the Great to Mother Teresa Encounters with Civilizations: From Alexander the Great to Mother Teresa (Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, US; London, UK, 2011), by Gëzim Alpion, explores people’s experience and tensions of dealing with civilizations and cultures different from their own. The fifteen texts cover Albania, Egypt, the United Kingdom and India, and explore how these countries have been shaped by different cultures. In an age of mass communication and global migration the book raises important issues about citizenship, multiculturalism and integration. Alpion is an academic, political analyst, writer, playwright, and essayist. He holds a

title: Mother Teresa

text: the opinion of the three academics, "Mother Teresa believed the sick must suffer like Christ on the cross". It was said that the additional money might have transformed the health of the city's poor by creating advanced palliative care facilities. One of Teresa's most outspoken critics was English journalist, literary critic and antitheist Christopher Hitchens, host of the documentary Hell's Angel (1994) and author of the essay "" (1995) who wrote in a 2003 article: "This returns us to the medieval corruption of the church, which sold indulgences to the rich while preaching hellfire and continence to the poor. [Mother

title: St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy

text: expansionist era, which began with year five in 1989-90. A school filled with 650 students left the port-o-pac rooms and soon moved into the new structure of 984 pupils and doubled its enrolment. Mother Teresa's new facility was officially opened and blessed on April 29, 1990. As a result of the beatification, the board changed the school's name to "Blessed Mother Teresa" in 2003. Her subsequent canonization and enrollment increase attempt led the board to rebrand the school as "St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy" in October 2016. 54 Ethnic monorities are represented in its student population, reflecting the diverse Malvern

title: Mother Teresa

text: lighting (particularly at the Home for the Dying) was thought unlikely to be usable by the crew. In England, the footage was found to be extremely well-lit and Muggeridge called it a miracle of "divine light" from Teresa. Other crew members said that it was due to a new type of ultra-sensitive Kodak film. Muggeridge later converted to Catholicism. Around this time, the Catholic world began to honour Teresa publicly. Pope Paul VI gave her the inaugural Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971, commending her work with the poor, display of Christian charity and efforts for peace, and she

title: Memorial House of Mother Teresa

text: Macedonia and carried out by the Ministry of Culture. It is a modern, transformed version of Mother Teresa's birth house with a multifunctional but sacral character. Inside the house, part of her relics are preserved, which were transferred to Skopje with support of the Roman Catholic Church of Skopje, an arrangement announced by Nikola Gruevski at the grand opening. There is a museum which includes realistic sculptures of Mother Teresa and members of her family. One sculpture shows Mother Teresa as a ten-year-old child, sitting on a stone and holding a pigeon in her hands. The house also hosts cultural

title: Look What I Did

text: I Were You I Wouldn't<nowiki>"</nowiki> in January 2016 on their YouTube account, followed by "Fireball" in June 2016, their first songs released since 'Zanzibar III : Analog Prison'. The band was named after friend's child said the phrase 'Mommy, look what I did', about a drawing to her mother when Barry was talking to her over the phone discussing what the band's name should be. Look What I Did Look What I Did is an American post-hardcore band, formed in 2001 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. The music combines elements of jazz/fusion, hardcore, metal, and progressive pop punk. The band is

text: sense of the word". He compared her accepting "the hospitality of crooks, millionaires, and criminals" to Christ's relations with unsavory individuals, said that on his deathbed he would prefer the comfort Mother Teresa's order provides to the services of "a modern social worker". He defended secretly baptizing the dying as "a generous mark of sincere concern and affection". He concluded by comparing journalists' treatment of Mother Teresa to Christ being spat upon. In reply to Leys, Hitchens noted that in April 1996 Mother Teresa welcomed Princess Diana's divorce after advising the Irish to oppose the right of civil divorce and

title: Cathedral of Saint Mother Teresa, Pristina

text: Cathedral of Saint Mother Teresa, Pristina The Cathedral of Saint Mother Teresa in Pristina (, / Катедрала Мајке Терезе у Приштини) is a Roman Catholic cathedral being constructed in Pristina, Kosovo. In 2007, the Government of Kosovo approved plans for the building. The cathedral is dedicated to the Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary, Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The foundation was ceremonially laid by former President of Kosovo, Ibrahim Rugova, himself a Muslim. It was inaugurated on 26 August 2010, the hundredth anniversary of her birthday, before construction was completed. Its construction, begun in 2011, sparked controversy in Muslim circles

title: What Kate Did

text: What Kate Did "What Kate Did" is the 34th episode of "Lost". It is the ninth episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Paul Edwards, and written by Steven Maeda and Craig Wright. It first aired on November 30, 2005, on ABC. The character of Kate Austen is featured in the episode's flashbacks. Kate Austen kills her alcoholic stepfather, Wayne Jansen, by blowing up his house. Kate confronts her mother, Diane Austen. Kate reveals that she took out an insurance policy under Diane's name. Later, Kate attempts to buy a ticket to Tallahassee, when she is arrested

title: University Medical Center of Tirana "Mother Teresa"

text: University Medical Center of Tirana "Mother Teresa" University Medical Center "Mother Teresa" (QSUT) () is a central hospital in Tirana, Albania. It is currently the largest medical center hospital located in the country and is named after Mother Teresa, who was of Albanian origin. The hospital has a capacity of 1612 beds and employees more than 2500 people. It is located in the north-east part of Tirana and occupies an area of 165,000 m2. The campus contains nine hospital facilities with a capacity of 1,612 beds and provides medical assistance to the daily average of 400 patients hospitalized. Yearly the

title: Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School

text: in the spring of 2011. The girls were undefeated, going 7-0 in the regular season, 3-0 in the city playoffs and then 6-0 at OFSAA. Mother Teresa is also known for volleyball, basketball, badminton, tennis and track and field. Current TVRAA, WOSSA and OFSAA Senior Girls Cross Country Champion Jaclyn White attends MTS. In addition to these accomplishments with her school: Jaclyn White won the 2010 OTFA finals, and came in 17th in the Canadian Nationals. She was a member of the Track and Field Team. Main: Others: There are many feeder schools that supply students to MTS; Mother Teresa

title: St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy

text: 2003, she was beatified, the third step toward possible sainthood. A second miracle credited to Mother Teresa is required before she can be recognised as a saint by the Catholic Church. After the construction of several subdivisions in the Malvern area in the 1970s, Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute, the high school in that area, was opened in 1978. In its conception, on September 3, 1985, a new school in the Scarborough area of Toronto was to be named "Mary Ward". Then trustee Harold Adams advocated for the new school to be named "Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School". Another school

title: Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School

text: 3 have multi-use scoreboards. There is also an aerobics room and a workout room. Mother Teresa is best known for its Senior football team winning OFSAA in 2007 and 2009. Its Junior football team went undefeated at home since the school's opening until 2010 and winning the City Championship in 2008. Also its Hockey team has reached the city championships 7 years in a row, capturing the city title in 2007 and 2010 & 2012,they also capture Bronze at OFSSA in 2012 with a record of 6-1. The Mother Teresa girls soccer team also won the AAAA OFSAA Gold Medal

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text: the community together. The first event celebrated in 2007 was the Terry Fox Run. It was a great success and we were able to raise a grand total of $3000 to help find a cure for cancer. Called the Titans, there are list of sports that are offered at St. Mother Teresa: Junior Boys Football Senior Boys Football Started in September 2012, St. Mother Teresa introduced a "Regional Arts Program" for Scarborough. This special program draws students from Malvern, Morningside Heights, Highland Creek, Rouge, and Millken with artistic talents. The program consists of visual arts, drama, dance, vocal music or

title: Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School

text: Thames Valley Regional Athletic Association. The cafetorium is a multi-purpose space serving as a lunch and assembly area as well as a full drama production facility complete with overhead catwalk, 1880's style lighting and sound system. Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School offers a comprehensive Catholic Religious studies program, providing opportunities for spiritual growth and participation in retreats and special projects aimed at understanding our relationships with God through prayer, reflection and service to others. Mother Teresa Catholic Secondary School also offers an international student program, the school hosts numbers for different events for international students throughout the year. MTS is

text: book ends with a short Afterword. In the "London Review of Books", Amit Chaudhuri praised the book: "Hitchens's investigations have been a solitary and courageous endeavour. The book is extremely well-written, with a sanity and sympathy that tempers its irony." He commented that the portrait "is in danger of assuming the one-dimensionality of the Mother Teresa of her admirers", and that he finished the book without much more of an idea of the character and motivations of Mother Teresa. In "The New York Times" Bruno Maddox wrote: "Like all good pamphlets... it is very short, zealously over-written and rails wild".

text: remarks by stating that there "would seem to be two choices" regarding those poor people in the developing world who die neglected: "First, to cluck one’s tongue that such a group of people should even exist. Second, to act: to provide comfort and solace to these individuals as they face death. Mr. Kempton chooses the former. Mother Teresa, for all of her faults, chooses the latter." Literary critic and sinologist Simon Leys wrote that "the attacks which are being directed at Mother Teresa all boil down to one single crime: she endeavors to be a Christian, in the most literal

title: Mother Teresa

text: sisters and an associated brotherhood of 300 members operating 610 missions in 123 countries. These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's- and family-counselling programmes, orphanages and schools. The Missionaries of Charity were aided by co-workers numbering over one million by the 1990s. Teresa lay in repose in St Thomas, Calcutta, for a week before her funeral. She received a state funeral from the Indian government in gratitude for her service to the poor of all religions in the country. Assisted by five priests, the last rites was performed by Cardinal Secretary of

title: Mother Teresa

text: Joseph Langford) the Missionaries of Charity Fathers in 1984 to combine the vocational aims of the Missionaries of Charity with the resources of the priesthood. By 2007 the Missionaries of Charity numbered about 450 brothers and 5,000 sisters worldwide, operating 600 missions, schools and shelters in 120 countries. Teresa said, "By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus." Fluent in five languages – Bengali, Albanian, Serbian, English and Hindi – she

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text: 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children's- and family-counselling programmes; orphanages, and schools. Members, who take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, also profess a fourth vow: to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor." Teresa received a number of honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised (recognised by the church as a saint) on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day. A controversial

title: Criticism of Mother Teresa

text: and donated 1,000 dollars, not one million as reported. In 2003, after Teresa was beatified by John Paul II, Hitchens continued his criticism, calling her "a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud." He further criticized the Catholic Church for ignoring the testimony of Dr. Ranjan Mustafi who attributed the recovery of his patient to modern medicine, rather than a miracle associated with Mother Teresa. In 2016, when she was canonized, Dan Savage drew attention to the conflicting evidence and accused NPR of describing alleged miracles in a way that favoured the church's interpretation. An article in the conservative religious journal

text: where it was seen as outsized considering the small number of Catholics in the area. Upon the cathedral's completion, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Prizren-Priština will move from Prizren to Pristina. The cathedral will be one of Pristina's tallest buildings. An exhibition celebrating the shared history of Albanians and Austria was held in the cathedral in January 2015. It was attended by the President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, and Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz. Cathedral of Saint Mother Teresa, Pristina The Cathedral of Saint Mother Teresa in Pristina (, / Катедрала Мајке Терезе у Приштини) is a Roman Catholic cathedral

text: the whole Region III (Central Luzon). In 2002,it has been granted certification in 2012 by ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007. Calcutta has the following centers The hospital launched Privilege Card and Value Card program to reward their loyal in-patients. Meanwhile, Calcutta offers hospital packages deal program for the following areas: •General Surgery •O-Gynecology •Health Watch Program •No Cash Out on Special Hemodialysis •Breast Cancer •PNP Region III Special Healthcare Program Patients can be admitted in Calcutta 24/7. Admitting procedures can be found in Calcutta’s Website. Mother Teresa of Calcutta Medical Center Mother Teresa of Calcutta Medical Center is

title: Mother Teresa

text: Teresa wrote to spiritual confidant Michael van der Peet, "Jesus has a very special love for you. [But] as for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see—listen and do not hear—the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak ... I want you to pray for me—that I let Him have [a] free hand." In "Deus caritas est" (his first encyclical), Pope Benedict XVI mentioned Teresa three times and used her life to clarify one of the encyclical's main points: "In the example of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta we have a

title: Criticism of Mother Teresa

text: She subsequently laid a bouquet on Hoxha's grave, and placed a wreath on the statue of Mother Albania. She accepted money from the British publisher Robert Maxwell, who, as was later revealed, embezzled UK£450 million from his employees' pension funds. There is no suggestion that she was aware of any theft before accepting the donation in either case. Criticism does focus on Teresa's character statement produced in the Charles Keating case, where Keating was charged with fraud following high-profile business failures. Keating had donated millions of dollars to Mother Teresa and had lent her his private jet when she visited

title: Criticism of Mother Teresa

text: points out that after the Bengladesh War, a few million refugees poured into Calcutta from the former East Pakistan. "No one had ever before done anything remotely like Mother Teresa's order, namely picking up destitute and dying people off the pavements and giving them a clean place to die in dignity." Navin B. Chawla points out that Mother Teresa never intended to build hospitals, but to provide a place where those who had been refused admittance "could at least die being comforted and with some dignity." He also counters that her periodic hospitalizations were instigated by staff members against her

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text: enormous sums of money she received, and her overly dogmatic views regarding, in particular, abortion, contraception, and divorce". Questioning the Vatican's motivations for ignoring the mass of criticism, the study concluded that Mother Teresa's "hallowed image—which does not stand up to analysis of the facts—was constructed, and that her beatification was orchestrated by an effective media relations campaign" engineered by the Catholic convert and anti-abortion BBC journalist Malcolm Muggeridge. According to Christopher Hitchens, Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to secretly baptise dying patients, without regard to the individual's religion. Susan Shields, a former member of the Missionaries of

text: hospital provides outpatient healthcare services to about 150,000 people, hospital care for over 60,000 people and emergency service for about 200,000 people. The total number of surgical interventions performed during a year is 18,342, of which: An e-consultation program was established at the Eye Clinic of the hospital in February, 2002, mentored by the Oftapro Clinic in Bucharest and the Health for Humanity of Chicago from Chicago in the United States. University Medical Center of Tirana "Mother Teresa" University Medical Center "Mother Teresa" (QSUT) () is a central hospital in Tirana, Albania. It is currently the largest medical center hospital

title: Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?

text: Initial Resistance to Her Charism/a: A Sociological and Public Theology Perspective’, was published in the "International Journal of Public Theology" in 2014. Alpion's new monograph on Mother Teresa's early years in Skopje will be published in 2016. In June 2014, Alpion began a campaign in support of the canonization of Mother Teresa. 'One of the reasons why Mother Teresa’s cause for canonization has stalled', Alpion told "Matters India" in September 2014, 'is due to the revelations about her deep distress in experiencing the ‘dark night of the soul’; this often forced her to doubt both God’s existence and the nature

title: Mother Teresa

text: Teresa received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding, given for work in South or East Asia, in 1962. According to its citation, "The Board of Trustees recognises her merciful cognisance of the abject poor of a foreign land, in whose service she has led a new congregation". By the early 1970s, she was an international celebrity. Teresa's fame may be partially attributed to Malcolm Muggeridge's 1969 documentary, "Something Beautiful for God", and his 1971 book of the same name. Muggeridge was undergoing a spiritual journey of his own at the time. During filming, footage shot in poor

title: Teresa Carpio

text: lower count of votes. Teresa Carpio Teresa Carpio (born 30 September 1956 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer, actress, and singing teacher. As a singer she who has enjoyed substantial popularity in Hong Kong and other countries, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s. She is also the mother of singer T.V. Carpio. She is most well known for her Cantonese hits, 假如 (If), 仍然記得嗰一次 (I Still Remember That Time), 眉頭不再皺 (Sukiyaki), 何必放棄 (Why Give Up) and 真愛 (True Love). Carpio's father is Filipino and her mother Shanghainese. Born into a musical family (her grandfather

title: Teresa Carpio

text: Teresa Carpio Teresa Carpio (born 30 September 1956 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong English pop and Cantopop singer, actress, and singing teacher. As a singer she who has enjoyed substantial popularity in Hong Kong and other countries, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s. She is also the mother of singer T.V. Carpio. She is most well known for her Cantonese hits, 假如 (If), 仍然記得嗰一次 (I Still Remember That Time), 眉頭不再皺 (Sukiyaki), 何必放棄 (Why Give Up) and 真愛 (True Love). Carpio's father is Filipino and her mother Shanghainese. Born into a musical family (her grandfather was a concert violinist

text: convincingly demonstrated Mother Teresa's absolute faith that God guides and God provides, despite opposition from both church and state." The review continued to praise how the film is "skilfully and winningly dramatized..and directed with assurance and passion". William Brailsford of "The Washington Times" noted that "Miss Chaplin gives a convincing performance as Mother Teresa, imitating her soft voice and her awkward yet charming mannerisms and re-creating that aura of piety that surrounded the "saint of the gutters." This remarkable actress has us in the palm of her hands early on, and she never lets go." Brailsford also praised the realism

title: What I Did Last Summer

text: What I Did Last Summer What I Did Last Summer is a play by the American playwright A.R. Gurney. The setting is a well-to-do vacation colony on the shores of Lake Erie, the time 1945, during the final stages of World War II. Charlie, an incipiently rebellious fourteen-year-old, is summering with his mother and sister (his father is fighting in the Pacific) before going off to an expensive boarding school in the fall. Although he intended to spend the summer loafing and socializing with his friends (such as Ted), the need for spending money forces him to take a job

title: St. Mother Teresa Catholic Academy

text: poverty and obedience, and the fourth vow, to give "Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor". The Missionaries of Charity at the time of her death had 610 missions in 123 countries including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; children's and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and schools. For over 45 years, she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Her beatification by Pope John Paul II following her death gave her the title "Blessed Teresa