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 ...

Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, welcomed the recent Vatican recognition of the spiritual phenomenon at Medjugorje as a call to make the recognition more widely known.

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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.

Still, the announcement earlier this month that the Vatican would publish a new document on Medjugorje worried some devotees, many of whom describe life-altering experiences there.

The Vatican on Thursday gave that “nihil obstat” to Medjugorje. The local bishop issued the decree authorizing devotion there, and it is now possible that a sanctuary could be built, said ...

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.

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 ...

The Vatican said Thursday it recognised the shrine of Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina, without commenting on the Virgin's "alleged messages" to the faithful, who have gathered there in the ...