In 1991, the official statement from the Yugoslavia Bishops’ Conference stated that it was not determined yet if the apparitions are of supernatural origin; pilgrims are allowed to go to ...

They come from throughout the world to pay homage to Our Lady of Medjugorje — apparitions, witnesses say, of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, that began in June 1981. Six children — now ...

In 1981, six young people began reporting apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, which was then part of Yugoslavia. These apparitions included many messages, which were reported on a daily ...

For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, ... even when Yugoslavia was fractured into new nations by the three-year-long Bosnian war starting in 1992.

In 1986, as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger formed a commission among the bishops of Yugoslavia to investigate the alleged apparitions.

STERRETT, Ala. (RNS) Marija Lunetti, one of six young peasants who claimed that the Virgin Mary began appearing to them in 1981 in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia, says the mother of Jesus is aware of the ...

In 2019, the pope authorized official pilgrimages to Medjugorje, the site where apparitions of the Virgin Mary were said to take place. ... First from elsewhere in Yugoslavia, then from abroad.

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.

The Episcopal Conference of Yugoslavia also deemed that the events were not of a supernatural nature in a document known as the Zara Declaration. The number of pilgrims visiting the site grew ...

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, ...

I n June 1981, a purported series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary turned a small town in Yugoslavia into a popular site of Catholic pilgrimage. The alleged visions also sparked a confrontation ...