A living saint
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An inspiring example of someone who truly shows the face of Christ to others
I've tried to find other secular news sources for this other than Wiki, but seems that a lot of media are not really interested in telling good news (for a change)...http://www.ask.com/wiki/Maggie_Gobran
http://www.worldmag.com/articles/6876
Maggie Gobran (also known as Mama Maggie) is a Coptic Orthodox Christian from Egypt, who founded the charity organization the Stephanus-children in Mokattam, outside Cairo in Egypt. Since 1985 she has ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying people (especially children) who are an integral part of collecting and processing Cairo's municipal solid waste in Zabbaleen.
Maggie Gobran was part of the upper class in Egypt and before Christmas 1985 had not been in Zabbaleen, an Egyptian community of mainly Coptic Christians who collect and dispose of the city of Cairo's waste by feeding it to their pigs. She was handing out Christmas gifts presented to poor children and leave again. But at one of the garbage mounds she saw something moving, and began to dig. She found a small child, living buried in garbage. Afterwards, she found another one. So she chose to devote her life to the children. Before she started working in Zabbaleen, she worked at the American University in Cairo.
Thousands of children and families are helped through the organization she founded. Kindergartens, which has between 250 and 400 children aged two to six years. Here, the children get food, health check, vocational education, camp residence, and hope. She is known for wearing white clothes, and she says it's because the pure heart will see God. She is a deeply religious women and she state, "Every time I touch a child, I touch God. For an honor! A foretaste of heaven. I am the one being blessed by the children, it's not the other way. I have received so much and can never repay".
Gobran have several times been nominated for the Nobel Prize, and been compared with Mother Teresa. "I am very inspired by Mother Teresa, but I am not worthy to wash her feet.", Maggie Gobran stated.
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if only she knew the ugly truths behind the myth of Mommy Teresa....................
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Originally posted by Asromanista2001:
if only she knew the ugly truths behind the myth of Mommy Teresa....................
This 'myth' sure has inspired many many people like Maggie Gobran to give up their comfortable lives and help the poorest of the poor. I think people recognise goodness when they see it.
Just curious, what useful things have you done other than jealous slander?
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slander ? not at all..................
a bunch of Western journalists went to India and found that from the local Indians...........
Mommy Teresa only fed a fraction of the thousands of people that she claimed.............
Teresa also spend much of her time not in India.....................among other things.........
it's not a surprise to me at all since i've suspected Teresa more than 15 years ago..........
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Originally posted by Asromanista2001:
slander ? not at all..................
a bunch of Western journalists went to India and found that from the local Indians...........
Mommy Teresa only fed a fraction of the thousands of people that she claimed.............
Teresa also spend much of her time not in India.....................among other things.........
it's not a surprise to me at all since i've suspected Teresa more than 15 years ago..........
Yes yes, and she also rode around in Narnia on the back of a pink unicorn accompanied by elves. Shucks, why didn't I see this before?
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Mother Teresa said she doubted the existence of God. Any idea what made her said that ? It is unusual for a religious person to say that.
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Originally posted by Pinknutri:
Mother Teresa said she doubted the existence of God. Any idea what made her said that ? It is unusual for a religious person to say that.
An excellent question.
Here's a very interesting article on this - http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415,00.html
Frankly, what I find amazing is that despite not experiencing God's presence for decades, it didn't stop her from her single-minded mission to bring healing and comfort in God's name to those she came into contact with.
Jesus has a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear.
— Mother Teresa to the Rev. Michael Van Der Peet, September 1979 -
Matthew 27:46 (New International Version, 2010)
46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).
If the suffering of Christ is so great that he cries to God, what more can we expect from his servants.
Did Mother Teresa walk away from her mission inspite of her doubts.... Why not?
Not like she's bound by contract to the vatican or she sign bond with SG garmen....
.... but then again, maybe Mother Teresa did not exist as she's also a creation of our collective consciousness....
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Originally posted by Pinknutri:
Mother Teresa said she doubted the existence of God. Any idea what made her said that ? It is unusual for a religious person to say that.
It is because Roman Catholicism is a false religion and I have mentioned it in Valentines Day but no one take it seriously.
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Originally posted by Lianfo:
It is because Roman Catholicism is a false religion and I have mentioned it in Valentines Day but no one take it seriously.
A useless comment unless you can back it up.
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Originally posted by Servant:
Yes yes, and she also rode around in Narnia on the back of a pink unicorn accompanied by elves. Shucks, why didn't I see this before?
everything you must see before then it's real or true huh ?
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Originally posted by Asromanista2001:
everything you must see before then it's real or true huh ?
Nah, it just takes honest referencing / quoting and clear logical sense to know whether something's real or not.
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Originally posted by Servant:
Nah, it just takes honest referencing / quoting and clear logical sense to know whether something's real or not.
Is your reasoning like this:Anything against God is illogical?Many pastors' logic is like that.I think God is logical.
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to Chin Eng,
why must u keep harping on tat? but then again, i like it....hahaha
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Originally posted by despondent:
to Chin Eng,
why must u keep harping on tat? but then again, i like it....hahaha
Chin Eng is harping on the wrong one.He used NIV2011 which is the most perverted one which is supported by Homosexuals.
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Originally posted by My Fav Class95:
Is your reasoning like this:Anything against God is illogical?Many pastors' logic is like that.I think God is logical.
Not really, I meant that we should be logical when we determine if a literary source or news item is genuine or not.
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i was referring to the last sentence of his post above...thats the 3rd time he has said sth similar...
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Originally posted by despondent:
i was referring to the last sentence of his post above...thats the 3rd time he has said sth similar...
because it's true, we are all creation of the consciousness of asromanista.... just like the scientists that he said thinks that we are all holograms....we don't exist.
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Originally posted by My Fav Class95:
Chin Eng is harping on the wrong one.He used NIV2011 which is the most perverted one which is supported by Homosexuals.
point me to another version that you think is NOT "perverted", that says differently from the one i quoted.... -
Originally posted by Asromanista2001:
everything you must see before then it's real or true huh ?
of course not, we believe in this thing called "faith" remember... the one that we created out of our own imagination??? -
Originally posted by Servant:
Nah, it just takes honest referencing / quoting and clear logical sense to know whether something's real or not.
it was an article i read on a online news website years before Teresa died.................so how to quote anything ?
one thing for sure.....................Teresa Teng was probably more saintly than Mommy Teresa...............
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Originally posted by Asromanista2001:
it was an article i read on a online news website years before Teresa died.................so how to quote anything ?
one thing for sure.....................Teresa Teng was probably more saintly than Mommy Teresa...............
Oh, so the info in your article is so credible that it doesn't exist today?
Nah, the ice queen from Narnia is more saintly.
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i saw the news article years ago lah...................i can't even remember which website...............
maybe if you do a search on Google, etc you might find it...............
but no surprise if Mommy Teresa is a scam...................
after all, the Vatican Bank is ranked top 8 when it comes to money laundering for the mafia...................
and let's not forget the thousands of sex abuse cases worldwide that the Vatican tried to hide.................
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Originally posted by Asromanista2001:
i saw the news article years ago lah...................i can't even remember which website...............
maybe if you do a search on Google, etc you might find it...............
but no surprise if Mommy Teresa is a scam...................
after all, the Vatican Bank is ranked top 8 when it comes to money laundering for the mafia...................
and let's not forget the thousands of sex abuse cases worldwide that the Vatican tried to hide.................
Stop asking others to google to support the nonsense that you are sprouting. For once, support what you said about Mother Teresa. And stop trying to co-relate/change channels/directions/throw smoke bomb.
pardon me for my two cents.
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i'm just saying what i read...................it was a news website..............
talk about support....................anyone can support all the absurd tales in the bible ?