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 (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 ...

Pope Francis has urged young people gathered in Medjugorje to imitate the Virgin Mary by abandoning themselves to God. He issued the appeal in a message to an annual youth meeting in Medjugorje, read ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Francis has urged the thousands of young people gathered at Medjugorje this week to follow the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who leads us closer to Christ. In a message to the Medjugorje ...

Marija Pavlovic Lunetti, one of the six youth who began reporting daily visions of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje in 1981, has been a frequent visitor to Alabama ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican will soon decide on the validity of miraculous apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, a Bosnian town, Pope Francis said on his return from the country’s capital.

‘Entrust yourselves to the Stella Maris, a sign of hope on the rough seas, who guides us towards the harbor of peace,’ the Holy Father told young people. A statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is seen at ...