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Dispute over Mother Teresa echoes in the corridors of The Vatican: The Hindustan Times
London, Aug 01: The Pope is known to be anxious for bestowing the sainthood to Mother Teresa at the earliest but a new row over the Mother`s memory has sent tremors in the corridors of The Vatican.
London, Aug 01: The Pope is known to be anxious for bestowing the sainthood to Mother Teresa at the earliest but a new row over the Mother's memory has sent tremors in the corridors of The Vatican.
A plan to record her in stone as a daughter of Macedonia has incensed a group of Albanian writers and politicians. They have written to the Mayor of Rome accusing their Balkan neighbour of "falsifying history to cash in politically."
The inscription that has erupted the row reads, "Macedonia honours her daughter Gonxe Bojaxhui: Mother Teresa Skopje 1910 - Calcutta 1997." The problem has possibly risen because Mother Teresa was born to an ethnic family in Skopje, the capital of what is now Macedonia but was then part of the Ottoman Empire.
A few admirers of the Mother here said to the HT that such "petty-minded" rows would never detract or diminish her contribution to the poor and the humanity at large.
The inscription that has erupted the row reads, "Macedonia honours her daughter Gonxe Bojaxhui: Mother Teresa Skopje 1910 - Calcutta 1997." The problem has possibly risen because Mother Teresa was born to an ethnic family in Skopje, the capital of what is now Macedonia but was then part of the Ottoman Empire.
A few admirers of the Mother here said to the HT that such "petty-minded" rows would never detract or diminish her contribution to the poor and the humanity at large.