Pope’s environment encyclical release on June 18: Vatican

Tuesday, June 9th, 2015

Pope Francis’s much anticipated encyclical on the environment will be released on June 18, the Vatican has confirmed.

Earlier unconfirmed reports had put the release date two days earlier.

“To avoid confusion on the diffusion of non-confirmed information, it is communicated that the foreseen date of the Pope’s encyclical is the next June 18, Thursday,” the Vatican’s press office announced.

The encyclical is reportedly to be given the title “Laudato Sii”, a quotation from a popular prayer of St Francis of Assisi praising God for the creation of the different creatures and aspects of the Earth.

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