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Mother Teresa: a Symbol of Unity

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The construction of the Blessed Mother Teresa Cathedral, is a symbol of unity and reconciliation in the heart of the Balkans.

Many Catholics around the world will remember Blessed Mother Teresa on Friday August 27, the day on which the "little mother of the poor" would have celebrated her 100^th birthday.

Catholic Radio and Television Network (CRTN), currently broadcasting on the social networking YouTube, a short documentary,  On new foundations, which focuses on the construction of a cathedral that once completed, will honor the memory of the blessed one.

Located in the heart of Kosovo's capital, Pristina, and partly funded by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), the new cathedral is probably the most significant project in the recent history of the new republic with an Albanian majority, the same nationality as the Blessed one.

Significantly, the cathedral is located in the heart of the capital of a country with a Muslim majority, and according to the documentary, most Muslims are open to the idea of building this Catholic cathedral in the heart of the capital.

"We Muslims have no reason to protest against the building of the Cathedral", says Professor Morina Qemajl, dean of the Islamic faculty of Pristina. Instead, he considers it as "an enrichment".   A unanimous view, which is unique in this Balkan region where, in the recent years, has been faced ethnic and interreligious conflicts.

The cathedral is a place of reconciliation, "a Church that reflects the example of the person of Mother Teresa", as we can witness in this documentary. 

In 1959, during his first trip to Asia, Father Werenfried, founder of ACN, 'discovered' Mother Teresa. Upon his return he wrote in the newsletter (known as the Mirror), of the organization: He stated "Mother Teresa and her Sisters care for the abandoned children whom they pick out of the dustbins in the mornings, and also for the dying, whom they collect  from the streets. They place them on stretchers and bring them to the 'house of the dying.' I went to see her there and went with her from stretcher to stretcher, blessing 127 dying people." Thus he contributed to the awareness of Mother Teresa's work in Europe and then worldwide.

Click here to watch the Documentary: On new foundations.