Argentina orders bishop out
Published:Friday | February 20, 2009 | 7:31 AM
Argentina has ordered a British bishop who denies the Holocaust to leave the country or face expulsion.
The interior ministry said Richard Williamson had been given 10 days to leave Argentina.
Earlier this month the bishop was removed from his post as the head of a Roman Catholic seminary in Argentina.
A row erupted in January after the Pope decided to lift Bishop Williamson\'s excommunication on an unrelated matter.
The Vatican said the Pope had been unaware of Bishop Williamson\'s views and had since ordered him to recant.
Yesterday Argentina\'s interior ministry said that Bishop Williamson has concealed the true motive for his stay in the country.
The minister said Williamson had declared that he was an employee of a non-governmental group rather than state his true activity as the director of a seminary.
Bishop Williamson\'s views on the Holocaust have provoked outrage.