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In Conyers, Georgia, local parishioners say that rosaries are turning golden, the sick are being healed and there is the overpowering scent of roses in a Catholic Church where a housewife claims to be receiving visions of Mary
In Bolivia, South America, an ordinary-seeming statue of Mary has been weeping red tears, which have been scientifically proven to be real human blood.In Texas, tears spiced with myrrh are flowing from the eyes of a statue of Mary in a Russian Orthodox Church. Several people who have touched the tears claim to have experienced cures of diseases such as cancer and leukemia
Meanwhile in India, a statue of the Hindu god Ganesh has been filmed drinking bowls of milk; and in Tibet, a rocky outcropping appears to be forming into the likeness of the Buddhist goddess Tara.
Even in the heart of war-torn Medjugorge, Yugoslavia, some 12 million people have journeyed to see the hilltop where a group of young people are having regular visions of Mary, and many have reported healings and observing the sun spinning backwards in the sky.
All over the world, in every religious tradition, ordinary people from all walks of life are reporting miracles at an unprecedented rate – perhaps rivaling early Christian times. Is it just millennial madness? Is it a sign from the heavens? Is it proof of the power of belief? Is it delusion or divinity?
The mystery of it all is that there can be no definitive, objective answer.
Just what is a miracle? The term is simply defined as "that which causes wonder." It is usually a tangible event that defies logical explanation, that seems to suspend the laws of science and nature as we know them. A miracle appears to be the work of a higher force, suggesting a vast reality beyond the five senses.
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