This Week in Christian History: Mother Teresa, Puritans, A Pope Resigns
Mother Teresa Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech - December 10, 1979
This week marks the anniversary of when Mother Teresa accepted the Nobel Prize for Peace, speaking at the University of Oslo, in Norway.
During her remarks, Teresa called abortion "the greatest destroyer of peace today," adding that "if a mother can murder her own child in her womb, what is left for you and for me to kill each other?"
Get Our Latest News for FREE
Subscribe to get daily/weekly email with the top stories (plus special offers!) from The Christian Post. Be the first to know.
"To me the nations who have legalized abortion, they are the poorest nations," stated Teresa. "They are afraid of the little one, they are afraid of the unborn child, and the child must die because they don't want to feed one more child, to educate one more child, the child must die."
