VATICAN CITY, Sept 19 (Reuters) - 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 ...

According to visionaries, Our Lady came to Medjugorje to show the faithful the way to peace and help convert lives so as to return to God. This statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on Apparition Hill, ...

MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia and Herzegovina — A woman who claims to be a visionary of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje has said that Mary will no longer appear to her on the second of ...

Editor's note: This is part of an occasional series of stories and columns about Marian shrines and devotions and how Catholic sisters are connected with them. Srs. Adriana Galić, left, and Jelena ...

Pope Francis has named as apostolic visitor to Medjugorje the Polish archbishop he had initially sent to the town as his personal envoy to study the pastoral needs of the townspeople and of the ...

MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina — As a journalist covering the Vatican, I’ve obviously been aware for a long time of the debate that swirls around Medjugorje, the small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina where ...

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 by ...

A statue of Mary is seen outside St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (Credit: CNS photo/Paul Haring.) Listen ROME – By comparing Medjugorje, a site ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - A visionary from Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina who says she has daily apparitions of the Virgin Mary will return to Alabama from July 1 through July 5. Marija Lunetti, one of ...

If the Catholic Church recognizes as “worthy of belief” only the initial alleged apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje, it would be the first time the church distinguished between phases of a single event ...