(THE CONVERSATION) For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the Virgin Mary. For almost as long, hordes of pilgrims ...

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.

Medjugorje pilgrimages get Vatican green light—could this be the next religious tourism boom?

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.

Some critics of Medjugorje have pointed to what they see as shortcomings of the people who have reported receiving messages from Mary or perceived deficiencies in some of the messages.

The Vatican has authorized public worship at Medjugorje, where some claim they have seen the Virgin Mary, acknowledging the “positive encouragement for their Christian life” that many pilgrims have ...

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 ...

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 ...