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Vying for a piece of Mother Teresa's past Transcending religion / The politics of a saintly woman's provenance

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Mother Teresa will soon be beatified, one step short of becoming a saint. But this celebration of the divine in a human being has turned out to be as good a moment as any to fight about all the worldly things that usually get fought about in the Balkans, namely religion, ethnicity and history. The conflict centers on an attempt to donate a statue of Mother Teresa to the city of Rome. It is simple enough on one level, but on another reflects the enduring strains that have made it so hard to stitch together Balkan societies. The tale begins with a solitary fact that no one disputes: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became the world' s most famous Roman Catholic missionary, ...

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