About 300 Catholics from the Los Angeles area joined Archbishop José Gomez Saturday for a special Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City during the sixth annual Archdiocesan ...

In 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 Gospa has allegedly imparted about 40,000 messages to the seers, which have been shared on various websites devoted to the Medjugorje pilgrimage.

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.

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 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.

Medjugorje was hotly debated in the Catholic Church during the 1980s and 1990s, and Catholics remain divided over it, with some questioning or rejecting the authenticity of the purported messages.

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-Herzegovina, in a document ...

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.

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 ...