Byline: RANJAN ROY Associated Press
CALCUTTA, India -- India and the world bade farewell to Mother Teresa today, honoring with the pomp of a state funeral the nun who dedicated her life to caring for the weak and impoverished.
The poor and the sick gathered with presidents and royalty at an indoor stadium to honor Mother Teresa, whose body had been borne on a funeral carriage decorated with garlands of jasmine through the streets of Calcutta.
In the stadium, her open casket was placed on a tilted platform in front of the altar bearing a banner with the words: ``Works of love are works of peace.''
``To the dying and the suffering she brought her tender compassion, washing their wounds, easing their pain,'' Henry D'Souza, archbishop of Calcutta, said in a eulogy.
``Her goodness was contagious. It invited others to share.''
In Mother Teresa's view, he said, ``The greatest poverty is to feel unwanted and unloved.''
A Christian in an overwhelmingly Hindu nation, Mother Teresa combined a simple life and an unremitting focus on the …
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