The State - News from June 1, 1988

Abortion has become the greatest threat to world peace, Mother Teresa told a crowd of 6,000 at the University of San Diego. “Abortion has become the greatest destroyer of peace because it destroys two lives, the life of the child and the conscience of the mother,” said Mother Teresa, who was awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for the work of her religious order, Missionaries of Charity. “Let us thank our parents for wanting us, for loving us, for giving us the joy of living. . . ,” she said. Mother Teresa ended her 20-minute speech by imploring the crowd to “give until it hurts” and encouraging them to help the poor, homeless and the sick. “Hunger today is not only for bread. Hunger today is to be loved,” she said.