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Albania to India: Send us Mother Teresa

Oct. 17, 2009
Mother Teresa spent her life's work devoted to helping the sick and hungry of Kolkata, India. She died in 1997 and is buried there. But as her 100th birthday approaches, Albania says it wants her remains sent there to rest next to those of her mother and sister. And Macedonia, where Mother Teresa...
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