Surveillance footage shows a man pouring gasoline on the altar at St. James Church as the Medjugorje shrine was vandalized days before a major festival.

The Holy Father invited festival participants to return to the source of true joy, following this year’s motto: “Ad fontem! To the source!” ...

A popular Catholic pilgrimage site in Bosnia has been vandalised and a nearby altar set ablaze, authorities said.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Authorities in Bosnia on Tuesday investigated the desecration of a Virgin Mary statue and a shrine damaged by fire overnight in a southern Bosnian village, a ...

VATICAN CITY, Sept 19 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Police are investigating several acts of vandalism and desecration at the famed village of Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Marian apparitions are alleged to have occurred since 1981. In a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People pray at a shrine to the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Zeljko Milicevic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images ...

Locals in Bosnia and Herzegovina's famed Marian shrine Medjugorje began cleaning a vandalized statue of the Virgin Mary and repairing a burned outdoor altar, as police detained a Polish suspect and ...