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Home / Awards / Servitor Pacis Award / 2003 THE SERVITOR PACIS AWARD RECIPIENTS 2003 - Sister Martina, M.C., Missionaries of Charity The Missionaries of Charity are an Order of Roman Catholic Sisters founded by Mother Teresa in Calcutta. It was there in Calcutta that she experienced what she described as a "call within a call" to aid the poorest of the poor in India. She immediately began her work by bringing dying persons from the streets into a home where they could die in peace and dignity. Eventually other women joined her, and in 1950 she started a congregation of sisters, called the Missionaries of Charity. The Missionaries of Charity can be found ministering almost everywhere in the world caring for the destitute, abandoned and dying. In 1991, the Missionaries of Charity went to Baghdad during the Gulf War to tend to the needs of the wounded, sick, and dying people, without regard to religion. The sisters run an orphanage in Baghdad for mentally and physically challenged children. During the recent conflict in Iraq, the sisters were determined to remain with the children despite the bombings. They became mothers to the many children who were orphaned or lost as families were separated or displaced. In Baghdad the sisters' noble work has contributed to change the landscape of that war-torn area. Peace has assumed the face of charity and charity has assumed that of peace. In recognition of the dedication of the Missionaries of Charity in Baghdad to the people of Iraq, the Path to Peace Foundation is pleased to bestow upon Sister Martina, MC, regional Superior of the local congregation in Baghdad, the Servitor Pacis Award.
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