45 years ago, on October 17, 1979, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, received the Nobel Peace Prize. The nun received this award in recognition of her humanitarian service for the poorest in India.
According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, the Committee that awarded this award to Mother Teresa highlighted “the spirit that has inspired her activities” and assured that “it is the tangible expression of her personal attitude and her human qualities.”
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“In the eyes of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, constructive efforts to end hunger and poverty, and to guarantee humanity a better and safer world community in which to develop, should be inspired by the spirit of Mother Teresa, in respect for the value and dignity of the individual human being,” they stated.
Saint Teresa of Calcutta did not want the traditional banquet to honor the winners and asked that the money that would be used for this event (about $192,000) be donated to charities for the poor.
The award ceremony took place on December 10, 1979. The nun received the award from King Olaf V of Norway.
Along with the diploma, the nun was given a medal and about 800,000 Norwegian crowns (more than $98,300).
In your speechMother Teresa thanked God “for this beautiful occasion in which we can all together proclaim the joy of spreading peace, the joy of loving one another, and the joy of recognizing that the poorest of the poor are our brothers and sisters.” ”.
On the other hand, he warned that “the greatest destroyer of peace today is the cry of the innocent unborn child.” “Because if a mother can murder her own child in her own womb, what is left for you and me to kill each other?”, he specified. In this sense, she indicated that for her “the nations that have legalized abortion are the poorest nations.”
The saint highlighted that one way to fight against abortion is adoption and emphasized that “the good God has blessed the work so wonderfully that we have saved thousands of children, and thousands of children have found a home where they are loved, wants, they are taken care of.”
Finally, Mother Teresa of Calcutta encouraged everyone to ask God for the courage to protect the unborn child “because the child is God’s greatest gift to a family, to a nation and to the entire world.” “May God bless you,” concluded the selfless Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
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