Overview

• Media outlets highlight Mother Teresa’s life and legacy, including the 1950 founding of the Missionaries of Charity and her 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.
• She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003 and canonized by Pope Francis in 2016.
• La Nacion reports she died at 87 after suffering malaria, and notes she received a state funeral in Calcutta.
• Anniversary coverage also recalls NASA’s Voyager 1 launch on September 5, 1977, and its 2012 entry into interstellar space.
• The date is observed as the International Day of Indigenous Women in memory of Bartolina Sisa, and as Boy Scout Day in Argentina after a Ministry of Education decision to fix it in the school calendar.