Mother Teresa

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In 1948 MotherTeresa started her work in Calcutta among those who are at the very bottom of humán society - the destitute, the outcasts, the mentally handicapped, the homeless sleeping on the streets, those who are actually dying without anyone to care for them. She started with no money at all, and no organisation behind her: just a profound conviction that if she acted out of love, all else would follow. Today, at a time when the numbers of men and women entering religious orders has dramatically declined, the v Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by MotherTeresa, is expanding rapidly, and is now working in over seventy countries. TÍie sisters work with the poorest garbage-pickers in Cairo, leprosy victims inTanzania, alcohoücs in the slums of Lima and people dying of AIDS in New York - wherever the need is greatest.
This book telis how MotherTeresa and her sisters operate, living in totál poverty. It is the story not only of an impressive religious phenomenon but of one... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In 1948 MotherTeresa started her work in Calcutta among those who are at the very bottom of humán society - the destitute, the outcasts, the mentally handicapped, the homeless sleeping on the streets, those who are actually dying without anyone to care for them. She started with no money at all, and no organisation behind her: just a profound conviction that if she acted out of love, all else would follow. Today, at a time when the numbers of men and women entering religious orders has dramatically declined, the v Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by MotherTeresa, is expanding rapidly, and is now working in over seventy countries. TÍie sisters work with the poorest garbage-pickers in Cairo, leprosy victims inTanzania, alcohoücs in the slums of Lima and people dying of AIDS in New York - wherever the need is greatest.
This book telis how MotherTeresa and her sisters operate, living in totál poverty. It is the story not only of an impressive religious phenomenon but of one of the greatest humanitarian achievements of our time.
Other books in this series
The books in the people who have helped the world series set out, in a lively way, to teli the stories of the great humanitarians and conservationists of our time and the problems they faced. Titles in print or in preparation include:
Marié Curíe Desmond Tútu
Father Damien Raoul Wallenberg
Henry Dunant
Mahatma Gandhi
Bob Geldof
Martin Luther King
Sir Feter Scott Vissza