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. This statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on Apparition Hill, ...

VATICAN CITY, Sept 19 (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 ...

Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, the pastor of the parish church at the Marian shrine of Medjugorje, welcomed the recent Vatican recognition of the spiritual phenomenon there as a call to make this ...

A statue of Mary is seen outside St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen ROME – Often placed in opposite sides of the ...

A group of Ukrainian youth have made a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, asking Mary to bring peace as Russia doubles down on its 11-year war in Ukraine and brutally targets civilians. "This was a drop of ...

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 ...

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 ...

With some prudence, Catholics can benefit spiritually from the messages and spiritual practices associated with the alleged apparitions of Mary in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, said the Vatican ...

Archbishop Henryk Hoser of Warsaw-Praga, Poland, was appointed by Pope Francis as special envoy to Medjugorje, the site of alleged Marian apparitions. Archbishop Hoser is pictured at the Vatican in ...

I too share Fr Sandro Camilleri’s disappointment and more so the opinion expressed by Joseph Gaffarena in his letter (TMIS, 3 August). It took some time to convince me to go to Medjugorje but last ...

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 the ...

The Franciscan was in Spain last week for the 15th Ibero-American Congress on the Queen of Peace organized by the Medjugorje Center Foundation. Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, is pastor of the parish ...