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Holocaust denial by Catholic bishop: 'Government must summon Vatican representative'

29 January 2009

Holocaust denial by Catholic bishop: 'Government must summon Vatican representative'

Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen should, in the opinion of SP Member of Parliament Harry van Bommel, summon the Vatican's diplomatic representative in the Netherlands, Apolstolistic Nuntius Francois Robert Bacqué, to explain last weekend's rehabilitation by the Pope of holocaust denying British bishop Richard Williamson.

Williamson has been rehabilitated despite his denial that during the Second World War millions of Jews were murdered. The now reinstated bishop went so far as to say that "not a single Jew died in the gas chambers" during this period. Van Bommel is also demanding that the Dutch ambassador to the Vatican register a protest against Williamson's holocaust denial and his rehabilitation.

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