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Mother Teresa belongs to the whole world, not to Roman Catholics only, not to Christians only. Indeed, she is the first religious figure in history to be revered during her lifetime all religions and Christians of all denominations. And when she died in 1997, there was a universal outpouring of heartfelt appreciation for her long life of service. Humility, simplicity, and sacrifice are the terms most often associated with Mother Teresa and her work though many that encountered her personally would quickly add tenacity. And this tenacity was often followed by a stern, uncompromising demeanor. She was driven by an unswerving conviction that she was called by God to reach out to the poorest of the poor, and this conviction left little room to entertain the opinions of government officials, church authorities, or even military leaders. In a famous televised scene from 1985, she insisted that a government minister from Ethiopia give her Missionaries of Charity two unused buildings to be made into orphanages. With cameras rolling, the minister was tongue tied but finally had no choice but to give her the buildings. Pop singer Bob Geldorf, in Ethiopia as part of his Band Aid campaign, witnessed this exchange in th
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