Mother Teresa spent most of her life trying to serve the sick and poor from her base in Calcutta. Following her death on September 5, 1997, many of her admirers and followers clamored for the nun ...

A 1960 portrait of Mother Teresa, the Albanian nun who dedicated her life to the poor, the destitute and the sick of Calcutta, India (later called Kolkata).

VATICAN CITY, Oct. 19 -- Pope John Paul II, weakening steadily from age and a variety of ailments, on Sunday beatified Mother Teresa, the nun who served the sick and dying in Calcutta and who ...

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on Aug. 26, 1910, into an ethnic Albanian family in what is today the Republic of Macedonia. She went to India in 1928 to teach at a convent school ...

NEWS BRIEF Mother Teresa, the nun who devoted her life to working with sick and poor communities in India and elsewhere, was canonized as a saint on Sunday.. Pope Francis declared sainthood for ...

Mother Teresa believed the sick must suffer like Christ on the cross, they suggest. "There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ's Passion.

A 1960 portrait of Mother Teresa, the Albanian nun who dedicated her life to the poor, the destitute and the sick of Calcutta, India (later called Kolkata).

LIFESTYLE Mother Teresa actress in upcoming film praises the saint: 'Such incredible dedication' Playing a real-life figure was a 'great challenge,' said Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz of Zurich ...

ROME — Mother Teresa didn’t try to solve all of the world’s problems: She simply lived her life in radical service and love of her neighbor, expecting God to take care of the rest, said her ...

Mother Teresa, known now as St. Teresa of Calcutta, shown with an Indian child in 1977, spent her life caring for the sick, poor and homeless.