Several thousand pilgrims from all over the world are participating on Wednesday in the 44th anniversary of Our Lady’s ...

I n June 1981, a purported series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary turned a small town in Yugoslavia into a popular site of Catholic pilgrimage. The alleged visions also sparked a confrontation ...

The DNA on a statue of the Madonna alleged to have wept blood and to have been linked to miraculous Marian apparitions ...

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.

Of the roughly 500 apparitions reported between 1900 and 2000, the Catholic Church declared only 10 to be genuinely supernatural, based on the church’s exacting requirements for authenticity. Earlier ...

However, unlike at the more well-known and established Catholic sanctuaries in Fatima, Portugal or Lourdes, France, the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje were never declared authentic by the Vatican.

The Vatican has authorized public worship at Medjugorje, where some claim they have seen the Virgin Mary, acknowledging the “positive encouragement for their Christian life” that many pilgrims have ...

Since June 24–25, 1981, the eve and feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, when six children in a small village in Bosnia-Herzegovina first reported seeing and receiving messages from ...

Ending a 15-year probe into the Marian apparitions reported at Medjugorje, the Church said it recognised the 'abundant spiritual fruits' coming from pilgrimages to the shrine – but was not ...

Medjugorje, the Vatican resolves doubts about the apparitions of the Madonna: the verdict after the Ruini Commission «Through the nihil obstat regarding a spiritual event, the faithful are ...

The apparitions of the Madonna of Medjugorje, which continue to occur at scheduled times decades later, manifesting to the six alleged visionaries, reminded him of something akin to TV schedules.

The Holy See's pronouncement on the alleged Marian apparitions of Medjugorje will be made known next Thursday, September 19. At 11.30 am, in the Holy See Press Office, a press conference will take ...