So Medjugorje is a gift to the Church. And the Church has recognized this. And the “nihil obstat” has opened the doors to Medjugorje and also to all those who want to go to Medjugorje.

The Vatican has sent a letter to U.S. Catholic bishops that bans "apparitions" by Mejugorje visionaries in U.S. churches. Planned appearances in October by one of the visionaries, Ivan Dragicevic ...

Pilgrims to the Marian shrine in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, pray at the Church of St. James. About 1 million pilgrims visit the shrine each year.

The Vatican issued a long-awaited note on the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a popular pilgrimage site for the faithful since the 1980s.

Pope Francis approved Catholic pilgrimages to Medjugorje in May 2019, ... Those alleged apparitions “still require an examination by the Church," papal spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said in a ...

A statue of Mary is seen outside St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (Credit: CNS photo/Paul Haring.) Listen ROME – By comparing Medjugorje, a ...

Church authorities have argued about the Medjugorje apparitions since they began. They sent psychiatrists and physicians to ...

MEDJUGORJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina – The Vatican’s apostolic visitor to Medjugorje, appointed by the pope to oversee the pastoral needs at the site of alleged Marian apparitions, began his mandate ...

A statue of Mary is seen outside St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (CNS/Paul Haring) ...

Madrid, Spain, Feb 11, 2025 / 06:00 am. Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, the pastor of the parish church at the Marian shrine of Medjugorje, welcomed the recent Vatican recognition of the spiritual ...

Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mar 18, 2020 / 14:40 pm. A woman who ... Alleged Marian apparitions in Medjugorje have long been a subject of controversy in the Church, ...