Medjugorje has been hit by a series of acts of vandalism and an arson attack, according to the N1 news portal.
Police in Citluk received a report at 4:30 a.m. that a statue of the Virgin Mary in the village of Bijakovici had been defaced with inscriptions and graffiti. Half an hour later, a fire broke out at the outdoor altar behind St James’s Church.
Police said the scenes had been secured and officers were carrying out an investigation.
Several religious sites, including Apparition Hill, also known as Podbrdo, and Cross Mountain, or Krizevac, were targeted overnight. Vandals daubed statues with black paint and left offensive graffiti and banners bearing slogans including “The Devil in a Skirt” and “Medjugorje is a Hoax”.
