Religious tourism, a profitable business/The French town of Lourdes has only 15,000 inhabitants, but attracts almost 6 million tourists every year

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This week, the Vatican officially approved religious pilgrimages to a village in southern Bosnia where children said they had visions with the Virgin Mary. Although it did not declare that the apparitions in Međugorje were authentic or of supernatural origin, the Vatican approved public acts of devotion to the place, justified by the strong spiritual experience of the visit. The papal green wave is essential for validating pilgrimage destination…