The Vatican has a formal evaluation process for assessing claimed apparitions. Photo: AP PHOTO

Jesus may answer prayers but he has not made special appearances in a small town in the north of France, the Vatican says.

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In a new instruction approved by Pope Leo, the Vatican's top doctrinal office said stories of appearances by Jesus in the town of Dozule, in Normandy, were not to be considered genuine by the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

A Catholic mother in the town had reported seeing Jesus 49 times during the 1970s, and said he had dictated a series of messages and told her to

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