The shrine at Lourdes, France, where the Virgin Mary is venerated as 'Our Lady of Lourdes,' following several apparitions reported in 1858. LandFoto/iStock / Getty Images Plus The Vatican recently ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral.

The sun sets behind a statue of Mary on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) For the Vatican, reports of supernatural ...

The events reportedly began after the couple brought back an image of Our Lady of Peace from Medjugorje in 2014. The Vatican’s intervention is in regards to the claims by self-styled visionary Gisella ...

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The small Wexford village of Taghmon attracted national media coverage in 1971 when three young boys reported seeing an apparition of the Virgin Mary while playing in a local disused cemetery. Eric ...

In June 1981, six children aged 10 to 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hilltop near the town. Catholic believers pray at the site where the Virgin Mary is believed to have ...

The Vatican recently announced its plan to set up an “observatory” at one of its several academic institutions, the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis, to investigate claims of apparitions ...

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(The Conversation) — The Vatican plans to set up an ‘observatory’ to investigate apparitions of the Virgin Mary. A scholar of global Christianity explains why this is a major shift in how apparitions ...

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has revised how it evaluates purported supernatural events, such as reported visions of the Virgin Mary, in order to guard against hoaxes and account for news going viral.