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Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an AlbanianRoman Catholicnun who started the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work.^[2] For over forty years, she cared for poor, sick, orphaned, and dying people in Calcutta (Kolkata), India.

She was guided in part by the ideals of SaintFrancis of Assisi. She was born in Skopje, Macedonia, and died in Calcutta.

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As the Missionaries of Charity grew under her leadership, they expanded their ministry to other countries. By the 1970s Mother Teresa was well known internationally as an advocate for the poor and helpless. This was due in part to a movie and book called Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge.

Mother Teresa strongly opposed abortion. She once said: "The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me?".^[3]

Following her death, Pope Joh