India to keep remains of Mother Teresa
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CALCUTTA, India — 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.
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