The alleged apparitions began June 24, 1981, when six children in Medjugorje, a town in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, began to experience phenomena which they have claimed to be apparitions ...

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 ...

In June 1981, six children between the ages of 10 and 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary had appeared to them on a stony hilltop near the village of Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In Medjugorje, she says she felt ... Gisela Kokvou, 57, from Austria, says the Virgin Mary appeared to her in a chapel in Medjugorje. “I see her eyes coming straight into her body, ” said Kokvou.

Whatever the verbiage, it was clear that Medjugorje is a big deal for this group. In the adoration chapel at the event, Our Lady of Medjugorje, the Queen of Peace, ...

VATICAN CITY (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 appears to ...

Pope Francis has named as apostolic visitor to Medjugorje the Polish archbishop he had initially sent to the town to study the pastoral needs at the site of the alleged Marian apparitions.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — 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 ...

For millions around the world Medjugorje is place ... Virgin Mary every day and he invited me to witness one of the apparitions that takes place at precisely 6.40pm in the chapel he has built in ...

Local Franciscans quickly took control of the Medjugorje phenomenon, ... During the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, Peric was abducted and beaten by Croat militiamen in a local Franciscan chapel, ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has approved a Catholic spiritual devotion centred in Medjugorje, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina that has been steeped in controversy over whether the Virgin Mary ...

For millions around the world Medjugorje is place of pilgrimage - but it is also a symbol of Croatian national aspiration on the territory of Bosnia-Hercegovina.