Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu , was an Albanian Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (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.
In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,
"for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace."
She refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to laureates, and asked that the $192,000 funds be given to the poor in India, stating that earthly rewards were important only if they helped her help the world's needy.
When Mother Teresa received the prize, she was asked,
"What can we do to promote world peace?"
She answered
"Go home and love your family."
Building on this theme in her Nobel Lecture,
she said:
"Around the world, not only in the poor countries, but I found the poverty of the West so much more difficult to remove. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied.I have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from society—that poverty is so hurtable and so much, and I find that very difficult."
She also singled out abortion as 'the greatest destroyer of peace in the world'.
U2
U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. The group consists of Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion).
U2 have released 12 studio albums and are among the most critically and commercially successful groups in popular music.
They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, and they have sold more than 145 million records.
In 2005, the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.
Rolling Stone magazine listed U2 at #22 in its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
Throughout their career, as a band and as individuals, they have campaigned for human rights and philanthropic causes, including Amnesty International, the ONE Campaign, Product Red, and Bono's DATA campaign.
