India Not Giving Up Mother Teresa

Posted by Miss Cellania in Religion on October 16, 2009 at 12:15 pm


When Mother Teresa died in 1997, she was buried at the Missionaries of Charity headquarters in Calcutta. Now that she is expected to be canonized as a saint, the government of Albania has asked that her remains be disinterred and turned over to Albanian authorities. India has formally rejected the demand.

“Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen and she is resting in her own country, her own land,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said.

A spokeswoman for the nun’s Missionaries of Charity described the Albanian request as “absurd”.

Mother Teresa, an ethnic Albanian, was born in Skopje, now part of Macedonia.

Correspondents say that the row over her resting place could develop into an ugly three-way squabble between India, where she worked most of her life, Albania where her parents came from and Macedonia where she lived the first 18 years of her life.

Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha said his country will continue the quest to regain Mother Teresa’s remains before the 100th anniversary of her birth next year. Link -via Arbroath


Previous post
this post? Please Email this               
Next post

Tags: , , , ,


FUN PRODUCTS FROM THE NEATORAMA SHOP:
BuckyBalls (w/ Mystery Bonus!)


COMMENT

13 comments to "India Not Giving Up Mother Teresa"

  1. Church
    October 16th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

    You'd think Macedonia and Albania would be cool about the fact that she grew up there and then went to India and thought, "Wow. THESE people have it rough."

  2. Gauldar
    October 16th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    Now now children, havn't we heard of sharing? Tony! Get the meat cleaver! Speaking of which, how long does a saint have to be burried before you can use their remains as holy relics?

  3. intelnm
    October 16th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

    i have a problem with this post. i hope it is a typo. if Mother Teresa died in 1997 and it is now 2009. and cording to the article she is supposed to have a birthday next year. HOW IS THAT 100 YEARS. for it to be 100 years. it would have to be 2097. someone cant do math.

  4. miocl
    October 16th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    Hey intelnm, not so intelligent actually...

    "before the 100th anniversary of her birth"

  5. abdulhamid
    October 16th, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    India can keep her. Her intentions were pure and earnest but in the end she became a tyrannical, self-aggrandizing miser. Money and power leads to the ruin of even our most virtuous.

  6. Alice
    October 16th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    Intelnm, is your family tree a straight line?

  7. Justin
    October 16th, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    Mother Teresa is just rolling in her grave.

  8. lansing wedding photographer
    October 17th, 2009 at 12:19 am

    good for india. why did Albania wait until now? they only want her back if she's a "saint"?

  9. Ajan K
    October 17th, 2009 at 5:46 am

    LOL!! I Agree with Lansing Wedding Photographer

  10. Juice
    October 17th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WQ0i3nCx60

    Hell's Angel: Mother Teresa

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3tUuA7WBRE

    Penn & Teller on Mother Teresa

  11. GailW
    October 17th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    Someone needs to teach Intelnm how to do read AND math.Geez.

  12. Foreigner1
    October 19th, 2009 at 1:40 am

    This woman was so much a human with an almost Western-Medieval mindset as it comes to her form of faith and the way she looked at power, money and religion.

    And now even her dead body has become part of status and politics.

  13. Anne Hedonia
    October 19th, 2009 at 4:51 am

    More evidence that religion and emotion are damaging and holding the human race back from it's full evolutionary potential.


PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT

Neatorama Comment Policy
You don't have to register or login to comment, but it's easier if you do so. Comments aren't censored, but those that are abusive or off-topic may be edited or deleted.


Stay updated on the comments with Comment RSS