In June 1981, a group of six young people in Medjugorje, a town in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, claimed to have experienced a vision of the Virgin Mary, the Associated Press reported.. In ...

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 ...

The visionaries welcome pilgrims into their homes. Karen McCormick, a pilgrim to Medjugorje, said the costs are minimal as verified by a travel agency specializing in Marian pilgrimages.

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.

In 1981, Medjugorje was a small farm town of about 14,000 people in the former Yugoslavia. On June 24 that year, six children, aged 11 to 16, ...

The Vatican has approved Marian devotion at Medjugorje without pronouncing on the authenticity of alleged apparitions, emphasizing positive spiritual fruits. Wednesday, July 02, 2025.

VATICAN CITY (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 appears to ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday gave the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children repor ...