Tirana, Albania
A group of ethnic Albanian intellectuals has petitioned the mayor of Rome not to allow the construction of a statue honoring Mother Teresa. The intellectuals, from Albania, Macedonia, and Kosovo, are angry that the Macedonian government plans to build a monument near the Vatican with the inscription “Macedonia Honors Her Daughter.” Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Macedonia, in 1910, but she was an ethnic Albanian. She died in Calcutta, India, in 1997 after a lifetime of service to the poor. The irate Albanians said in a letter to the mayor that Macedonia was trying unfairly to “usurp the person and the deeds” of the famous nun through a “historical forgery.” Mother Teresa is to be beatified, a step toward sainthood, this fall.
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