"The whole point was that this was an official statement".
However, conservative bishops distanced themselves from the statement and the Church has since said it is simply a "working document" and was not intended to be an official statement of church teaching on family life.
Reuters, understandably, took this to be an official statement of fact from the Laotian government.Only three days later Viraphonh Viravong, a deputy minister of energy, contradicted the foreign minister's statement.
The leaders of the bishops' meeting that produced it have now said it was simply a "working document" and was not intended to be an official statement of church teaching on family life.
A papal exhortation is an official statement issued by the Vatican that ranks below formal encyclicals, which are used to state the Church's position on things like abortion and contraception, but above a regular letter to the faithful.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists, medics, and fighters across Syria for information on Isis, published what it said was an official statement from the militant group announcing the cuts.
Referring to the posting of her announcement on Twitter, the social-networking site, he said: "I thought it was very strange that she tweeted that she was leaving, and that what came back from Fox and 'Idol' was an official statement.
Photograph: Baron Wolman/Getty Images Updated at 11.02pm BST 10.46pm BST Here's an official statement from Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee, on today's platform amendment: The platform is being amended to maintain consistency with the personal views expressed by the President and in the Democratic Party platform in 2008.
Verheijen's first tweet on the matter appeared at about 0800 GMT on Thursday, stating: "This morning there there will be an official statement by [Wales manager] Gary Speed about the situation with Gareth Bale.
