Tribute to Mother Theresa

100th Birthday of Mother Theresa
Mother Teresa is a humanist in every possible way and she is moving others to follow her path and devote their lives to humanity,"



India celebrated 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa, the selfless nun who dedicated her life to serving the sick and poor in India


School children, tourists and volunteers, carrying bunches of flowers or candles, also crowded Mother Teresa's grave in the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity, the order of nuns she founded in 1950 in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta.


Her life and work continue to be an inspiration for the young and the old, the rich and the poor, from all walks of life, religions and nations.


Mother Theresa Born onAug. 26, 1910, to Albanian parents in what is now Skopje in Macedonia, she came to India in 1929. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.


She died in 1997 after a lifetime spent caring for hundreds of thousands of destitute and homeless poor in Calcutta, for which she came to be called the "saint of the gutters."


The Vatican beatified Mother Teresa in 2003 and the Roman Catholic Church has fast-tracked the process of declaring her a saint