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Article: Following Teresa into the Iraqi home of love; BAGHDAD.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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In a whitewashed mansion next to a church, five Indian nuns in their distinctive blue-bordered white saris are doing what their Roman Catholic order does best, caring for the needy.
Carrying on the legacy of Mother Teresa, who died on September 5, the nuns at the Missionaries of Charity have quietly helped hundreds of handicapped and ill children at a home in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Karrada.
The nuns have shunned the publicity that often accompanies aid given to ease Iraq's suffering caused by UN-imposed sanctions, which will not be lifted until the ...