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Holocaust-Denier Williamson Ordered Out of Argentina

Argentina on Thursday told the ultra-conservative bishop Richard Williamson to leave the country. The British-born bishop, who has described the Holocaust as "lies, lies, lies," was told by the Argentine Interior Ministry to leave within 10 days, or else he would be expelled.

The government said Williamson's denial of "a proven historical truth" had "deeply shocked Argentine society, the Jewish people and all of humanity." An official statement added, without giving detail, that he had also deceived Argentina's immigration services.

Williamson's repeated questioning of the Holocaust sparked an international furore earlier this month. Pope Benedict XVI faced a storm of criticism over his decision to lift the excommunication of four bishops with the ultra-conservative brotherhood of St. Pius X, including Williamson. Responding to intense international criticism, however, he ordered Williamson to recant his views before he could be reinstated as a Catholic bishop.

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