Mother Teresa singled out abortion as "the greatest destroyer of peace today. Because if a mother can kill her own child – what is left for me to kill you and you kill me – there is nothing between." [120] Mother Teresa Women's University, [174] in Kodaikanal, was established in 1984 as a public university by the government of Tamil Nadu. The Mother Teresa Postgraduate and Research Institute of Health Sciences, [175] 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 Nadu with free food, clothing, shelter and education. [176] A number of tributes by Mother Teresa's biographer, Navin Chawla, have appeared in Indian newspapers and magazines. [177] [178] [179] Indian Railways introduced the "Mother Express", a new train named after Mother Teresa, on 26 August 2010 to commemorate the centenary of her birth. [180] The Tamil Nadu government organised centenary celebrations honouring Mother Teresa on 4 December 2010 in Chennai, headed by chief minister M Karunanidhi. [181] [182] Beginning on 5 September 2013, the anniversary of her death has been designated the International Day of Charity by the United Nations General Assembly. [183]

Advise and support young students in schools, colleges, and universities on Sikh issues and Sikh traditions. Arrange classes, lectures, seminars, conferences, Gurmat camps and the celebration of holy Sikh events, the basis of their achievement and interest in the field of the Sikh faith and the Panjabi language. Our Lord wants me to be a free nun covered with the poverty of the cross. Today, I learned a good lesson. The poverty of the poor must be so hard for them. While looking for a home I walked and walked till my arms and legs ached. I thought how much they must ache in body and soul, looking for a home, food and health. Then, the comfort of Loreto [her former congregation] came to tempt me. "You have only to say the word and all that will be yours again", the Tempter kept on saying.... Of free choice, my God, and out of love for you, I desire to remain and do whatever be your Holy will in my regard. I did not let a single tear come. [43] Missionaries of Charity in traditional sarisProduce and distribute books on the Sikh faith in English and Panjabi, and other languages to enlighten the younger generation of Sikhs as well as non-Sikhs. Michael Oh - American missionary to Japan and executive director of Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization In the Latin translation of the Bible, Jesus Christ says the word when he sends the disciples into areas and commands them to preach the gospel in his name. The term is most commonly used in reference to Christian missions, but it can also be used in reference to any creed or ideology. [3]

Paramahansa Yogananda, an Indian yogi and guru, introduced many westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi. [37] Benjamin Hobson, medical missionary to China, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic (惠愛醫館() [109] [110] in Guangzhou, China. [106] [107]In Canada, the immense popularity and goodwill ushered in by Tibet's Dalai Lama (who has been made honorary Canadian citizen) put Buddhism in a favourable light in the country. Many non-Asian Canadians embraced Buddhism in various traditions and some have become leaders in their respective sanghas. The Church Mission Society, first known as the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, was founded in 1799 by evangelical Anglicans centred around the anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce. It bent its efforts to the Coptic Church, the Ethiopian Church, and India, especially Kerala; it continues to this day. Many of the network of churches they established became the Anglican Communion.

These are missionaries who predate the Second Council of Nicaea so it may be claimed by both Catholic and Orthodoxy or belonging to early Christian groups.Bhai Gurdas (1551–1636), Punjabi Sikh writer, historian, missionary, and religious figure; the original scribe of the Guru Granth Sahib and a companion of four of the Sikh Gurus [84] Around this time, the Catholic world began to honour Mother Teresa publicly. Pope Paul VI gave her the inaugural Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971, commending her work with the poor, her display of Christian charity and her efforts for peace. [103] She received the Pacem in Terris Award in 1976. [104] After her death, Teresa progressed rapidly on the road to sainthood.

Sellecl, D. (1980). Quakers in Boston: 1656–1964. Somerville: Fleming & Son. discussed throughout Chapter 1 She was the youngest child of Nikollë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Bernai). [15] Her father, who was involved in Albanian-community politics in Ottoman North Macedonia, died in 1919 when she was eight years old. [13] [c] He was born in Prizren (today in Kosovo), however, his family was from Mirdita (present-day Albania). [16] [17] Her mother may have been from a village near Gjakova, [18] believed by her offspring to be Bishtazhin. [19]A 2020 study by Elena Nikolova and Jakub Polansky replicates Woodberry's analysis [95] using twenty-six alternative democracy measures and extends the time period over which the democracy measures are averaged. These two simple modifications lead to the breakdown of Woodberry's results. [95] Overall, no significant relationship between Protestant missions and the development of democracy can be established. [96]