Is Mary mentioned in the Quran?
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the only woman named in the Quran, and she's mentioned there more often than in the entire New Testament. A whole chapter, Surah Maryam, is named after her.
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- What did Mother Teresa do with her Nobel Prize banquet?
“Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and asked that the banquet be canceled and the money given to the poor.”
Reference: The Nobel Prize
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