Getty Images Catholic pilgrims gather to pray near the statue of Virgin Mary in the Bosnian village of Medjugorje. AFP via Getty Images The Vatican recognized the shrine of Medjugorje without ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City 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 ...

The Vatican has given the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary, offering its approval for devotion ...

Vatican gives green light to devotion at Bosnian site in Medjugorje where Virgin Mary is said to have appeared ROME -- Vatican gives green light to devotion at Bosnian site in Medjugorje where ...

The Vatican on Thursday issued a statement acknowledging that spiritual "fruits" had come from the site of controversial purported apparitions of the Virgin Mary — while also stopping short of ...

Bosnian Roman Catholic women pray on the occasion of the feast of the Assumption in Medjugorje, some 75 miles south of the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, in 2000 The Vatican ... statue of the Virgin ...

The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent ...

The Vatican has given the green light for ... Pilgrims say their prayers next to the statue of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje (Armin Durgut/AP) It listed no example of any negative experiences ...

The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent years: the reported “apparitions” of the Virgin Mary in an otherwise ...

The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office is headlining a news conference on what the Vatican called ‘the spiritual experience of Medjugorje’. Bosnian Roman Catholic women pray on the ...