But Medjugorje has always represented an important place of worship for the faithful, ... The caption is dedicated to her mother who accompanied her during her illness and is a hymn to faith: ...

Many of those going to Medjugorje have taken to heart what Our Blessed Mother, Queen of Peace, is reported to have said: “I have come to tell the world that God exists.He is the fullness of life ...

They come from throughout the world to pay homage to Our Lady of Medjugorje — apparitions, witnesses say, of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, that began in June 1981. Six children — now ...

For millions around the world Medjugorje is place of pilgrimage - but it is also a symbol of Croatian national aspiration on the territory of Bosnia-Hercegovina.

Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary appears to local people, ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After 40 years of studies, commissions and contradictions, the Vatican finally approved the spiritual devotion of the faithful at the Marian site at Medjugorje, in Bosnia ...

For over 42 years now, in the quiet rural village of Medjugorje in Bosnia, Hercegovina, our Most Holy Mother Mary has been appearing daily since June 24, 1981, originally to six youths, and later ...

Although 42,000 apparitions have been reported at Medjugorje, bishops in the area have expressed doubts. A ban on organised pilgrimages was issued by the Yugoslav Episcopal Conference in 1984, ...

The Vatican has approved the promotion of devotion to the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje but did not make any declaration on the alleged supernatural character of the Marian apparitions there.

In June 1981, six children between the ages of 10 and 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them on a stony hilltop near the village of Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.