Resultados para "Teresa" en Mundial

Moeder Teresa, heilig verklaard als heilig door de Katholieke Kerk Teresa van Calcutta, is een genaturaliseerde Indiase religieuze Albanees-katholieke missionaris in India, Nobelprijs voor de Vrede in 1979. Ze is bekend om haar charitatieve persoonlijke actie en de stichting van een gemeente religieuze, Missionarissen van Naastenliefde, die hem begeleiden en volgen zijn voorbeeld.

SpeechWorks presents this collection of the greatest speeches of great women. Represented here are some of the most famous women of recent history, including athletes, politicians, businesswomen, diplomats, heads of state, activists, philanthropists, and more. You will hear the actual voices of these women, recorded at public functions at which they were the featured speakers.

On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries. In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.