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Kosovo and Albania to inaugurate “energy highway” in 2016

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By Behlul Jashari/ – Kosovo and Albania will inaugurate their “energy highway” in 2016, Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa told a news conference on Thursday in a reference to the 400 kV interconnection line which will link and provide for greater exchanges of electricity between the two countries.
“We believe that the interconnection line between the two countries will become fully operational next year. We expect to fully complete the construction works in Kosovo’s section this year, while works in Albania’s section are set to complete next year,” Mustafa said asked by ATA correspondent in Prishtina.Kosovo government head said that both governments are also pressing ahead with plans aimed at creating a common energy market to provide greater exchange of the electricity.

“We are working to create a common energy market and utilize the electricity transmission capacities, with the 400 kV interconnection line that we expect to fully complete in 2016. Completion of this interconnection line will enable Kosovo and Albania to exchange electricity ,” he said.

Mother Teresa’s canonisation in 2016 not confirmed, says Vatican

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A spokesman has said the reported date of September 4 for the canonisation is only hypothetical/
Despite reports in the Italian press that Blessed Teresa of Calcutta’s canonisation has been set for September 4, 2016, a Vatican spokesman says the date is only hypothetical and cannot be confirmed.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi issued a statement on Tuesday in response to media reports that the founder of the Missionaries of Charity, who worked among the poorest of the poor, would be canonised before the end of the upcoming Holy Year of Mercy.
“It is a working hypothesis, therefore there is no official confirmation to be given,” said Fr Lombardi. “The cause for Mother Teresa is still underway and it is therefore premature to speak of an already established date for the canonisation.”
But Italian media have reported that Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelisation, told Rome’s municipal officials on Monday that Mother Teresa’s canonisation has been set for September 4, 2016. Archbishop Fisichella’s office is organising the Holy Year of Mercy, which will begin on December 8, 2015.
According to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the archbishop also told city officials that the relics of St Padre Pio, a Capuchin priest who bore the stigmata of Jesus, will be brought to Rome from southern Italy for veneration by the faithful. The date for the translation of the relics has not yet been set.
With large crowds expected for both events and throughout the Holy Year, Archbishop Fisichella reportedly asked on behalf of the Vatican that city officials guarantee all pilgrims health care during the Holy Year. The Italian newspaper also reported that the archbishop asked the municipality to clear out the street vendors around St Peter’s Square, who tend to sell pilgrims overpriced goods.
Less than two weeks earlier, at a May 5 news conference at the Vatican, Archbishop Fisichella did not confirm a canonisation date for Mother Teresa, saying only that the canonisation was hoped for.
Officially, a second miracle still must be approved to open the way for Mother Teresa’s canonisation. However, Pope Francis has previously waived steps required for sainthood for other holy men and women.
Canonisations that are approved without meeting all of the requirements set by Church norms are called equivalent or equipollent canonisations. Pope Francis has approved at least seven equivalent canonisations during his two-year pontificate: Angela Foligno, Peter Faber, Jose de Anchieta, Marie of the Incarnation, Francois de Laval, Joseph Vaz and Junipero Serra.
St John Paul II had already made an exception to the rules in Mother Teresa’s case by allowing her cause for beatification to be opened without waiting the usual five years after a candidate’s death.
(Catholic HERALD)