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Medjugorje News & Articles by month January, 2011Added January 8, 2011 / Category: Caritas of Birmingham and "A Friend of Medjugorje" Terry Colafrancesco, Sterrett (AL), Alabama A Friend of Medjugorje (Terry Colafrancesco) fits the profile of a cult leader -- and his group “Caritas of Birmingham” can be classified as a cult according to criteria of International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA)Other languages: English, Italiano
At the May 2001 American Family Foundation Conference in Newark, New Jersey, several ex-members of Caritas of Birmingham offered their stories to a distinguished panel of psychologists and cult exit counselors. It was the overwhelming opinion of the panel that the leader of Caritas of Birmingham, Terry Colafrancesco (self-styled “A Friend of Medjugorje”), fits the profile of a cult leader, much the same as David Koresh and Jim Jones were leaders of their groups. There are several factors that determine whether a group can be classified as a true cult. Added January 13, 2011 / Category: Testimonies Healing of completely blind 50 years woman Joelle Beuret – Devanthery in Medjugorje -- Testimony of Christiane Claessens, who followed group from Lausanne, Switzerland on their pilgrimage to Medjugorje“Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet have believed” (Jn 20, 29) Christianne Claessens – the first witness of healing of woman from Switzerland Joelle Beuret – Devanthery in Medjugorje, in October 2010, as she describes the pilgrimage and all of the events. Added January 22, 2011 / Category: Medjugorje News, Medjugorje and Vatican Father Salvatore Perrella, CDF Expert on Medjugorje: "The pope wants a decisive conclusion made" -- Is seeing believing? How the church faces claims of Marian apparitionsBy Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When the bishop of Green Bay, Wis., recently recognized a series of Marian apparitions from 1859, it marked the first time apparitions in the United States received official approval. That's quite an achievement considering that more than 1,500 visions of Mary have been reported around the world, but in the past century only nine cases have received official church approval as being "worthy of belief," said an expert in Marian apparitions. Added January 29, 2011 / Category: Other “Miracle Detectives” on the hunt for answers -- Randal Sullivan and Indre Viskontas on Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) show(RNS) Dirt at an ancient holy site in Chimayo, N.M. reputedly cures a woman’s rare bone cancer. In North Carolina, a 14-year-old girl stricken with pneumonia is removed from life support but survives after an angelic image appears on a security monitor outside her hospital room. A Texas man lives despite being cut in half after being run over by a train. Were these acts of God, or is there a scientific explanation for events that seem to defy reason? For an hour every Wednesday night (10 p.m. EST), that divisive question is the focus of “Miracle Detectives,” one of prime-time television’s first forays into exploring the miraculous. | | |||
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