The United Nations issues “Mother Teresa” commemorative stamps on August 12

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Philatelic News (JiCang.vip), the United Nations Postal Service will issue a New York version of regular stamps on August 12, 2021 to commemorate Mother Teresa. This is the fifth stamp of the great man series issued by the United Nations Postal Service. This series of stamps is still created by the engraver Martin Mock, so it maintains a unified style! At the age of eighteen, she went to India and devoted herself to helping the poor. She became an Indian citizen in 1948 and founded the Missionary Sisters of Charity in Calcutta in 1950 (also known as Boji), which serves the poor and the dying of the city, and thus acts to attract the world. Attention. For 45 years, she served the poor, the sick, orphans, and the dying, while instructing charity missionaries to expand their services to India and other countries, opening shelters, and providing care and assistance to the poorest and homeless. Shelter service. Mother Teresa’s work has been recognized and praised all over the world, and she has received numerous awards and honors. In 1979, Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize for her “work and achievements to eliminate poverty and hardship that threatened peace”. The general stamps of the United Nations Characters series began to be issued in 2018. The first group is “Nelson Mandela”, the second group is “Kofi Annan”, the third group is “Mahatma Gandhi”, and the fourth group is “Florence. Nightingale, the fifth group “Mother Teresa”.