Pope Francis approved Catholic pilgrimages to Medjugorje in May 2019, but he has not made a deliberation on the authenticity of the apparitions.

The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office will hold a press conference Thursday about the “spiritual experience” at the Marian site, the Vatican said.

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.

Some 1 million pilgrims a year flock to Medjugorje, a Marian shrine located in a village 16 miles southwest from the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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 local people, the ...

This annual gathering of Catholic youth in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina takes place from Aug. 1-6. It draws roughly 50,000 people every year.

The Vatican gave its blessing to Catholic worshipers who claim to have seen and spoken to the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje in Bosnia but refused to say whether their visions were real.

(RNS) — While the Vatican did not confirm that the Marian apparitions were real, it recognized that the devotion of the faithful to the site is undeniable.

Pope Francis approved Catholic pilgrimages to Medjugorje in May 2019, but he has not made a deliberation on the authenticity of the apparitions.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary ...