What was Mother Teresa interested in?

Answer 1

At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, and an associated brotherhood of 300 members, operating 610 missions in 123 countries. These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, personal helpers, orphanages, and schools. The Missionaries of Charity were also aided by Co-Workers, who numbered over 1 million by the 1990s.

Answer 2

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Mother Teresa is well known for the work she did with the poor in Calcutta and elsewhere. This consisted of some small-scale hospices, orphanages and soup kitchens to feed some of the desperately poor. Less well publicised and more important in the use of her order's financial resources, was the work she did in spreading the Catholic religion.

Answer 3

Mother Teresa's mission was to care for, in her own words, "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."

Answer 4

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Mother Teresa was committed to the propagation of the Catholic faith. Towards this end, she set up charitable institutions for the poor, although these were only ever a small part of the work of her Missionaries of Charity.

Answer 5

Originally, Mother Teresa and her nuns took the sick and dying from the gutters of Calcutta and provided them with a place to stay and die in dignity. They provided basic medical care and gave them food and housing. Later, the nuns opened numerous orphanages and clinics in countries around the world.

Answer 6

At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, and an associated brotherhood of 300 members, operating 610 missions in 123 countries. These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, personal helpers, orphanages, and schools. The Missionaries of Charity were also aided by Co-Workers, who numbered over 1 million by the 1990s.

Answer 7

At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, and an associated brotherhood of 300 members, operating 610 missions in 123 countries. These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, personal helpers, orphanages, and schools. The Missionaries of Charity were also aided by Co-Workers, who numbered over 1 million by the 1990s.

Answer 8

At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, and an associated brotherhood of 300 members, operating 610 missions in 123 countries. These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, personal helpers, orphanages, and schools. The Missionaries of Charity were also aided by Co-Workers, who numbered over 1 million by the 1990s.

Answer 9

Her primary interest was serving the poorest of the poor.