Vatican gives green light to devotion at Bosnian shrine where Virgin Mary reportedly appeared

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The Vatican did not rule that the accounts that children and teenagers saw Mary in the village of Međugorje in 1981 were authentic, but it said that the spiritual experience of visiting the shrine justified pilgrimages there.

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00:00The Vatican has approved continued pilgrimages to a southern Bosnian village where children

00:07reported visions of the Virgin Mary. Despite previous doubts from local bishops and concerns

00:13about conflicting messages from the visionaries, the decision overlooks worries about the economic

00:19interests that have made Medjugorje a popular religious tourism destination. Unlike other

00:25established Catholic sanctuaries, the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje have never been

00:30declared authentic by the Vatican.

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