For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

There is rejoicing that the Vatican has recognised the spiritual fruits of the alleged apparitions of Mary in a small town in ...

Every Oct. 21, the province celebrates the festival of the Black Christ of Portobelo. It is considered one of the largest Catholic pilgrimages in the Central American country and dates back centuries.

Medjugorje came to world attention back in June of 1981 when ... All in all we had a wonderful week. People go on pilgrimage for all sorts of personal reasons. Whatever the reason, one thing is ...

(credit: Prof. Steven Fine) Travelers from the Galilee coming to Jerusalem for Sukkot and the pilgrimage holidays, according to recent research (Biblical Archaeological Review, 2021), took one of ...

“Your luck is on its way, but not in a rush,” reads my fortune as I gently unfurl it from a tiny, red plastic cat. It’s the fifth maneki-neko (“beckoning cat”) I’ve bought since I ...

The practice of subsidising religious pilgrimages in Nigeria dates back to several decades. Government at all levels expends billions of naira annually to support adherents of Islam and ...

“Let this example inspire you and be your guideline!” Pope Francis approved Catholic pilgrimages to Medjugorje in May 2019, but he has not made a deliberation on the authenticity of the alleged Marian ...

But in line with new Vatican criteria in place this year, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith ruled that the positive “spiritual fruits” stemming from the Medjugorje experience more than ...

Hundreds of people are thought to have died during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia - most of them due to extreme heat as temperatures soared past 51C (123F). AFP news agency quoted an Arab ...