Awards and Honors

Mother Teresa won over 120 awards, including, but not limited to:

The Padmashree award from the President of India in 1962

Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971

The John F. Kennedy International award in September of 1971

The Nobel Peace Prize in December of 1979

The Order of Merit (from Queen Elizabeth) in 1983

Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace Committee in 1987

The United States Congressional Gold Medal, 1997