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 ...

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the King of kings, the Creator of this universe, entrusted Himself to Mary when He chose Her to be His mother ...

MEDJUGORJE - Pope Francis has given the green light for Catholics to organize pilgrimages to Medjugorje, a site of alleged Marian apparitions, though the Church has not yet given a verdict on 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 ...

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 – Pope Francis has asked his envoy to a Bosnian shrine to stay on the job indefinitely to provide pastoral support to the millions of Catholics drawn there by reports of apparitions of ...

Possibility of new diocese for Medjugorje floated Rome, Italy, Mar 22, 2010 / 14:52 pm Following last week's announcement that a commission is being formed to investigate possible Marian apparitions ...

The commission that now-retired Pope Benedict XVI established to study the alleged apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, reportedly voted overwhelmingly to recognize as supernatural ...

As the week of prayer coordinated around the visit of visionary Marija Lunetti wraps up today, Lunetti may decide to extend her stay in Birmingham because of the medical attention she's receiving here ...

Pope Francis has named as apostolic visitor to Medjugorje the Polish archbishop he had initially sent to the town as his personal envoy to study the pastoral needs of the townspeople and of the ...

The shrine at Medjugorje where six young people said Mary appeared to them daily starting in 1981. Listen In the early 1980s, six children in the Yugoslavian town of Medjugorje reported seeing visions ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) Pope Francis has voiced serious doubt about the authenticity of alleged continuing apparitions of the Madonna in Medjugorje, a once-obscure village in Bosnia boosted ...