Laudate Deum

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- Lumen fidei
- Laudato si'
- Fratelli tutti
- Dilexit nos
Evangelii gaudium
Amoris laetitia
Gaudete et exsultate
Querida Amazonia
Laudate Deum
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Laudate Deum (Praise God) is an apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis, published on October 4, 2023. It was released on the 2023 Feast of St Francis Assisi as a follow-up to his 2015 encyclicalLaudato si'. The text is about 8,000 words divided into 73 paragraphs.

In it, Pope Francis called for speedier action against the climate crisis and condemned climate change denial.

The apostolic exhortation, dated 4 October 2023, was officially presented the following day, with a press conference held in the Vatican Gardens.

The Vatican released the document in Italian, Belarusian, German, English, Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese and Arabic.

It was Pope Francis' sixth apostolic exhortation, after Querida Amazonia, which was released in 2020.