Mother Teresa Honored in Luhansk

The exhibition devoted to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa started on August 19 in the Luhansk regional universal academic library. As reports the web site of the Luhansk regional authority, the exhibition called “Woman. Leader. Benefactress” is an open event and tells about the life of Mother Teresa. Luhansk is the city on the very east of Ukraine with a predominantly Orthodox population.

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was a Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.