Albania wants the remains of Nobel Peace laureate Mother Teresa and the only post-independence monarch to be returned to the country, the prime minister said Friday.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/span><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\nMother Teresa’s remains are in India and King Ahmet Zog’s in France. Prime Minister Sali Berisha’s government has asked India for the Roman Catholic nun’s to be returned by the 100th anniversary of her birth in August.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/span><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\nBerisha said Albania has started negotiations with India’s government, which “will be intensified this year.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/span><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\nMacedonia and Albania have been engaged in a dispute over the national identity of Mother Teresa, who was born in Macedonia to an ethnic Albanian family. She went to Calcutta, India, in 1929, and dedicated herself to the service of the poor and infirm, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/span><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAfter her death in 1997, she was buried in Calcutta and Pope John Paul II beatified her in 2003. Albania’s main airport outside the capital, Tirana, is named after Mother Teresa.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/span><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThere’s more at the AP link. I find it hard to believe that India would give up Blessed Teresa. But stranger things have happened. (A timely example: St. Damien was returned to Belgium from Hawaii some years after his death.) Stay tuned. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n
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