Mother Teresa is being recognized for her humanitarian work with the issuance of a new U.S. postage stamp today, 5th september 2010.The 44-cent stamp showing a portrait of the Roman Catholic nun is being released at a ceremony today at Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Mother Teresa, an ethnic Albanian, was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on Aug 26, 1910, in Skopje in what is now the Republic of Macedonia.
Mother Teresa won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her half-century of work with the sick and destitute of India and other areas.She had been a citizen of India since 1948. She died on 5 September 1997 in Kolkata. On 19 October 2003, Mother Teresa was proclaimed an “icon of the Good Samaritan” by Pope John Paul II.She was declared an honorary U.S. citizen by a joint resolution of Congress in 1996.
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