Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Anthony Onyemuche Ekpo, a Nigerian priest, as the new sub-secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Monsignor Ekpo was previously an official in the Section for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State.
The Vatican creates an Observatory of apparitions and mystical phenomena linked to the Virgin Mary to study the various cases whose authenticity has not yet been approved by the Church.