UNITED NATIONS: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mother Teresa said Saturday that abortion is the “greatest destroyer of peace” and urged governments to remove pro-abortion laws in their countries.
The 75yearold nun whose work for destitute in Calcutta, India, won her the Nobel Prize.”
Mother Teresa, Perez de Cellar, archbishop of New York Cardinal John O’Conner and about 1,000 visitors watched the premiere of the 90minute movie “Mother Teresa” that was put together by the Petrie Productions.
“Abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace,” Mother Teresa told a packed U.N. General Assembly, which in the past weeks played host to more than 100 kings, presidents and prime ministers.
“If we really want peace, we must make a resolution that in our country there should not be a single unwanted, unloved person,” she said. “The terrible law of killing a child must be removed from all countries.
“We are frightened by nuclear bombs, of terrible diseases, but we are not frightened to kill a child.”
Mother Teresa said.
“Now we have the privilege to have the most powerful woman in the world,” he said. “She is much more than I am, more than you are, she is the United Nations. She is peace in this world.”
The assembly is halfway through its annual three-month session to debate world crises.
The movie showed the nun working in her Missionaries of Charity headquarters in Calcutta and traveling around the world trying to establish similar homes for those whom she called the “poorest of the poor.”
Mother Teresa was in New York to try to set up a home for patients suffering from AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. She discussed her project with Gov. Mario Cuomo and Mayor Edward Koch Friday.
Koch said following his meeting with the nun that “if a saint comes to City Hall, you don’t ask questions. She may be the only living saint on this planet.”
More than 13,228 cases of AIDS have been reported in the United States, with 5,185 of those in New York State.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 1, 1985
