Over Christmas in 1983, Magnus, then 16, went with his older sister, younger brother and other teenage friends to the village of Medjugorje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, after reading about Our Lady ...

Photo: EPA-EFE/FEHIM DEMIR. The Vatican formally approved pilgrimages to the Marian shrine of Medjugorje in the southwest of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday.

The Vatican said some of the Virgin Mary's words of love allegedly bestowed at Medjugorje, "are best understood in the ecumenical and interreligious context of Bosnia and Herzegovina," whose 1992 ...

The decision will surely impact Medjugorje, which lies in the municipality of Citluk, one of the smallest in Bosnia with some 18,000 residents but economically well-off.

Pilgrims say their prayers inside the St. James Church in Medjugorje, Bosnia, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut) NICOLE WINFIELD, ELDAR EMRIC and JOVANA GEC, Associated Press ...