The Vatican on Thursday issued a statement acknowledging that spiritual "fruits" had come from the site of controversial purported apparitions of the Virgin Mary — while also stopping short of saying ...

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 ...

In June 1981, six children aged 10 to 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hilltop near the town. Catholic believers pray at the site where the Virgin Mary is believed to have ...

The Vatican said Thursday it recognised the shrine of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, without commenting on the Virgin's "alleged messages" to the faithful, who have gathered there in the millions ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday gave the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary, offering ...

ROME – While offering an overall positive judgment on the Marian apparitions and devotions associated with the Medjugorje phenomenon in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Vatican nevertheless said in a new ...

USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and University of Southern California provide funding as members of The Conversation US. For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town ...

At the Annunciation when the Archangel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive by the power of the Holy Spirit and give birth to a Son who She will name Jesus who is the Son of ...