By Mark Greaves
Mark Greaves meets Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow, founder of a charity that provides free meals to half a million children each day
Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow’s first experience of delivering aid was to drive a Land Rover crammed with food, clothing and medicine from the Highlands of Scotland down to Bosnia. At the time he was a salmon farmer: he had taken just a week’s holiday to do it. When he got back, his family shed was bulging with aid that had poured in from friends and friends of friends. He quit his job, sold his house, and learned to drive articulated lorries. Now, about 20 years later, his charity Mary’s Meals feeds half a million children every day.
But that is not the start of the story. At least, not how Magnus tells it. The real beginning was 10 years earlier, when he was 14, and he went on a pilgrimage to a small village called Medjugorje.
Tratto dal programma di RAIUNO "Porta a Porta" condotto da Bruno Vespa
Caritas of Birmingham - Question from Roberta on 6/18/2001:
Is Caritas of Birmingham a legitimate place to get Our Lady's messages? This group mails out blue post cards with the monthly message. The disturbing part is the coomentary by the "Founder", who will not reveal who he or she is. The group claims to have an inside line to the happenings at Medjugorge. Some of the commentary seems overly strict and somewhat outlandish. Can you let me know whether I should continue receiving their mailings?
Tratto dal programma di RAIDUE "Sulla via di Damasco" condotto da Monsignor Giovanni D'Ercole.
All the medical tests were negative when Silvia Busi fell very ill at 16. Within days, the all-normal Italian girl found herself in a wheelchair, unable to move her legs. Nine months later Silvia’s illness disappeared as suddenly as it had come about, during an apparition to Medjugorje visionary Ivan Dragicevic. The gift of faith is the biggest one I got, she says.
Inizio dicembre, Vicka ai pellegrini italiani con traduzione in inglese
At the beginning of December, Vicka and Italian pilgrims with English translation
For eight months, 2 years old Joshua battled a last stage cancer that brought him through a transplantation, 80 chemotherapy cures, and 17 radiotherapy sessions. When nothing worked, his parents took their son to Medjugorje. Back home, tests showed 19 tumors and all bone metastases to be gone as the beginning of Joshua’s now complete recovery.
Uno speciale condotto da Lorena Bianchetti sui messaggi della Madonna di Medjugorje diretti a tutto il mondo , in studio ospiti , collegamenti , testimonianze e storie di conversione. Trasmissione del 26 dicembre 2011.
24-Hour News 8 anchor Eric Halverson travels to Bosnia to experience the visions of Mirjana Soldo. She has been seeing visions of the Virgin Mary since she was a child on the mountainsides of Bosnia.
"Woman Clothed with the Sun" - performed by Marina Murari, from CD "LILIUM", very beatiful!
"Donna vestita di sole" - Canta Marina Murari, brano tratto dal CD "LILIUM", molto bello!