[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 191 Received in Senate (RDS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 191


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 18, 1996

                                Received

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  To confer honorary citizenship of the United States on Agnes Gonxha 
                 Bojaxhiu, also known as Mother Teresa.

Whereas the United States has conferred honorary citizenship on only three 
        occasions in its more than two hundred years, and honorary citizenship 
        is and should remain an extraordinary honor not lightly conferred nor 
        frequently granted;
Whereas Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known throughout the world as Mother 
        Teresa, has worked tirelessly with orphaned and abandoned children, the 
        poor, the sick, and the dying;
Whereas Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, and has taken 
        in those who have been rejected as ``unacceptable'' and cared for them 
        when no one else would, regardless of race, color, creed, or condition;
Whereas Mother Teresa has deservedly received numerous honors, including the 
        1979 Nobel Peace Prize and the 1985 Presidential Medal of Freedom;
Whereas Mother Teresa has worked in areas all over the world, including the 
        United States, to provide comfort to the world's neediest; and
Whereas Mother Teresa through her Missionaries of Charity has established within 
        the United States numerous soup kitchens, emergency shelters for women, 
        shelters for unwed mothers, shelters for men, after-school and summer 
        camp programs for children, homes for the dying, prison ministry, 
        nursing homes, and hospital and shut-in ministry: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, 
also known as Mother Teresa, is proclaimed to be an honorary citizen of 
the United States of America.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 17, 1996.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.