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India Won't Hand Over Mother Teresa's Remains

Nuns from her charity call Albanian request 'absurd'

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 14, 2009 11:50 AM CDT

(Newser) – Mother Teresa isn’t going anywhere, say Indian authorities. Teresa’s parents were from Albania, and the country had requested her remains. Macedonia, where Teresa grew up, may also want the body ahead of the 100th anniversary of her birth next year. “Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen and she is resting in her own country, her own land,” India’s foreign minister said, adding that the question of moving her “does not arise at all.” Nuns from Teresa’s India-based charity tell the BBC that the request is “absurd.”

Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, pray at her tomb in Calcutta.
Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, pray at her tomb in Calcutta.   (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Slum and street dwellers wait for food at a distribution center of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, in Calcutta, India, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009.
Slum and street dwellers wait for food at a distribution center of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, in Calcutta, India, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009.   (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Mother Teresa, in a 1996 file photo.
Mother Teresa, in a 1996 file photo.   (AP Photo/Sherwin Crasto, File)
Nuns of Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, pray around her tomb in Calcutta, India, Sept. 5, 2009.
Nuns of Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, pray around her tomb in Calcutta, India, Sept. 5, 2009.   (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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yummines
Oct 15, 2009 12:54 PM CDT
The only problem with saints are that they themselves are worshiped like idols, when their good acts are just seen as a part of them. The whole point was that they wanted not fame, but they wanted to spread goodwill across the world, but ironically people sometimes ignore that. I find it ironic when people pay to see the remains of a saint, yet do not even follow the teachings that the saint told to do...
justme
Oct 15, 2009 12:04 PM CDT
Mother Teresa was a true liberated woman. She started her own order when she saw a need that was not being filled. She told everyone, especially the rich and powerful, exactly how she felt whether it was politically correct or not.
Mad
Oct 14, 2009 9:06 AM CDT
Mother Teresa did her work worldwide. I saw her myself in Tijuana, Mexico

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