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Indian government says it will not hand over remains of Mother Teresa
14-10-2009
CALCUTTA, India (CNS) -- India will not yield to Albania's request to hand over the remains of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, an Indian government spokesman confirmed. Mother Teresa was "an Indian citizen and she is resting in her own country, her own land," the Indian Express newspaper quoted Vishnu Prakash, spokesman for the Ministry for External Affairs, as saying in its Oct. 13 edition.
"The question of returning her remains does not arise at all."
The government comments followed international media reports that Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha had asked the Indian government to hand over the remains of the ethnic Albanian nun for the 100th anniversary of her birth next August.
Sister Christy, a member of the Missionaries of Charity, the religious order founded by Mother Teresa, told the Asian church news agency UCA News that her congregation had not heard anything about such a demand officially but had seen the media reports.
She dismissed such reports as "speculations" and said the nuns had no comment.
Mother Teresa was born to an ethnic Albanian family in Skopje, in what is now part of Macedonia. She came to India in 1929 and became an Indian citizen in 1947.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20091013.htm
