In 1981, Medjugorje was a small farm town of about 14,000 people in the former Yugoslavia. On June 24 that year, six children, aged 11 to 16, told their families that they had seen the Gospa – ...

There is rejoicing that the Vatican has recognised the spiritual fruits of the alleged apparitions of Mary in a small town in ...

Dragicevic was 16 years old, and Medjugorje, then in communist-controlled Yugoslavia, had yet to emerge as a hub of miracle cures and spiritual conversions, attracting 30 million pilgrims during ...

This was a bumper sticker you could see at the time: Here in south Louisiana, where I live, in the 1980s, the alleged Marian apparitions at Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, were a big deal for Catholics.

The issue of Marian apparitions in Medjugorje stirs considerable controversy among the faithful and those outside the Church.

The WSWS also analyzed the origins of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the economic and social crisis of the late 1980s, which led to the demise of the Stalinist-ruled regimes throughout Eastern Europe.

Then along came a new nation, born out of the collapse of Yugoslavia, taking its name in 1991. Greeks, fiercely proud of the ancient heritage of Alexander the Great and his father Philip II of ...

Slovenia achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, in a relatively bloodless manner after the EU helped to broker a deal. Slovakia is the larger country and has twice as many people - at 5.5 ...

Slobodan Milosevic, the president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, backed down and in June, after more than 100 hours of negotiation with the Serb generals in Kosovo, Jackson secured an ...