Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini, who chaired the international commission investigating the authenticity of Medjugorje, has offered four criteria for the conclave that will elect Pope Francis’ ...

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 ...

The Vatican on Thursday issued a statement acknowledging that spiritual "fruits" had come from the site of controversial purported apparitions of the Virgin Mary — while also stopping short of saying ...

Pope Francis has urged the thousands of young people gathered at Medjugorje this week to follow the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who leads us closer to Christ. In a message to the Medjugorje ...

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 ...

In June 1981, six children aged 10 to 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hilltop near the town. Catholic believers pray at the site where the Virgin Mary is believed to have ...

Shun laziness and selfishness and do not be afraid to follow God’s plan for your life, Pope Francis told the thousands of young participants of the 2023 Medjugorje Youth Festival in a message on ...

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 ...

For over 42 years now, in the quiet rural village of Medjugorje in Bosnia, Hercegovina, our Most Holy Mother Mary has been appearing daily since June 24, 1981, originally to six youths, and later by ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Thursday gave the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary, offering its ...