Pope Francis to lay bare ‘terrible world war’ on nature in papal letter

Follow-up to 2015 encyclical on climate crisis urges people to take side of victims of environmental injustice'

Pope Francis has said he will issue a follow-up document on the protection of nature because a terrible world war" against the environment was taking place.

The pontiff said the papal statement - a follow-up to his 2015 encyclical on the climate crisis - would be issued on 4 October, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of the environment.