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May 6, 2021 · But in fact, history is full of mothers who reached beyond the domestic sphere—courageous women who overcame societal barriers and changed the world for people far beyond their own children.
Aug 22, 2023 · Uncover the profound global impact of Mother Teresa's selfless service. Delve into how her compassionate deeds forever altered the world.
Mar 13, 2024 · Mothers as Agents of Change. History is peppered with mothers who defied expectations and became architects of significant shifts in society. One such woman was Sojourner Truth, an African...
Oct 17, 2019 · From 1937, she became known as Mother Teresa, but it was a train ride on 10 September 1946 which would change her life forever.
- Early Life
- Heeding The Call
- Death and Canonization
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia on August 26, 1910, to parents of Albanian descent. Her family wasn’t wealthy but they lived comfortably. Her father was a businessman who traded medicines and other goods and also worked as a construction contractor. He was also involved in politics and died when Mother Teresa was j...
In 1943, the Bengal province experienced one of its worst famines. Close to 3 million people died of starvation, malaria, and other illnesses. Many families became homeless, and a great number of women became widows. And since widows were regarded as second-class citizens in the Bengali culture, many of them ended up begging on the streets of citie...
Mother Teresa passed away on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87 after years of deteriorating health. At the time of her death, the Missionaries of Charity already had about 4,000 members. In 2003, she was beatified and declared “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta” by Pope John Paul II. Then in a canonization ceremony in Vatican City last 2016, Pope Franci...
Mar 15, 2024 · Thornton tells a captivating story about Mary Wollstonecraft, the trailblazing feminist, and her daughter, Mary Shelley, the mother of the science-fiction genre. Both women were unconventional, with bold ideas that changed the world. Wollstonecraft opened the way for women’s rights in the Age of Enlightenment.
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Nov 27, 2018 · Throughout the 1920s and 1930s motherhood was seen in two ways: one of the strongest pillars of a nation’s social and political order, and that being a mother did not have to be completely...
