Bishop Ratko Peric of Mostar-Duvno in Bosnia and Herzegovina has sent letters to the pastor and a parochial vicar in Medjugorje, emphasizing that the town's parish is not a “shrine” and specifically ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cardinal Víctor Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, will lead a press conference on the “spiritual experience” of Medjugorje this Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Vatican. The ...

Pope Francis poses for photographs with bishops from Britain and Argentina as they hold statues of Our Lady of Lujan, the original held at right, and its replica, left, at the end of his weekly ...

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a note today after a long investigation into the alleged apparitions that began in 1981 in the Bosnia and Herzegovina town. Nothing is said about ...

The news that Medjugorje had been condemned – proclaimed as evil – by the Vatican opened the door to a flood of e-mails, discussion groups, blogs and made the headlines in various newspapers around ...