Millennium Road of Peace inaugurated

TIRANA, Oct. 19 – President Bamir Topi, Prime Minister Sali Berisha and Tirana Mayor Edi Rama attended Tuesday the inauguration ceremony of the “Millennium Road of Peace” held in capital Tirana.
That has been an initiative from the President, the Tirana city hall in cooperation with the Union for Peace.
That was made to honor of the memory of Mother Teresa, for the occasion of the 100th anniversary of her birth.
the “Millennium Toad of Peace” located at the start of the Artificial Lake of Tirana there were set square plaques that bear the signature of many Presidents from around the world in a symbolic gesture for peace and tolerance in the world, what Mother Teresa did.
Attending the ceremony were the President of the Union of Peace, Gianfranco Costa, representatives of the diplomatic corps, the Order of Sisters of Mother Teresa, leader of the religious communities, and scores of citizens.
Mother Teresa won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her half-century of work with the sick and destitute of India and other areas. She was declared an honorary U.S. citizen by a joint resolution of Congress in 1996.
Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in Skopje to an ethnic Albanian family and she has claimed herself that, ‘By blood, I am Albanian.’
Born as Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa went to Calcutta, India, in 1929, and dedicated herself to serving the poor and infirm. She died Sept. 5, 1997 at the age of 87.
She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003, putting her on the road to possible sainthood for her life’s work building shelters, orphanages and clinics around the world.