`Pakistan´s Mother Teresa´ accorded state funeral
(WorldNews Health)

Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, a German physician and nun known as `Pakistan´s Mother Teresa` was today accorded a full state funeral, a first for a Christian woman in the Muslim-majority country. Dr. Pfau (87), died on August 10 after spending 57 years to working to eradicate leprosy, tuberculosis and other diseases in Pakistan. Dr. Pfau, born in Leipzig, in 1929, arrived in Karachi in 1960 en route to India and volunteered at a local leprosy colony. While in Karachi,...